Crime

Areas of Practice

- Serious Crime
- Corporate Fraud
- Statutory & Regulatory Law
- Housing Act
- Statutory Licensing & Gaming
- Environmental Protection
- Trading Standards
- Health and Safety
- Employment Law
- Mental Health Law
- Immigration Tribunal and Appeal
- EC & Competition Law

Areas of Special Interest

Information Technology & Data Protection
Statutory Nuisance & Smoke-free Legislation
Environmental Protection
Computer and Internet related crime

Appointments

'Independent Counsel' for Legal Professional Privilege matters

Member of the Treasury Solicitor 'Special Advocate' Panel

Member of the A panel on the Attorney General's Unified List

Grade 4 Crown Prosecution Service instructed advocate

Immigration Judge (2006)

Mental Health Review Tribunal Judge (2007)

Significant Cases

 

Daniel Thwaites Plc v Saughall Massie Conservation Society [2008] EWHC
838 (Admin): A licensing authority is required to have regard to guidance issued by the secretary of state as to the discharge of its functions; it is not required to work slavishly through the guidance, but must give full reasons for its decisions and in particular full reasons where it departs from the guidance.

Health & Safety Executive -v- Stockport MBC, 2003 (£100,000 fine)

Burnley Riots 2001

Regina -v- Matthew Glover & others 2002, (Operation Norfolk)

Several Operation Landslide prosecutions (internet child pornography)

Regina -v- Levi & others, 2005 (Operation Apple, Ebay computer fraud)

Regina -v- Albattikhi 2005-09 (Murder, RIPA, Covert electronic surveillance)

Professional Memberships

Bar European Group

Languages

Fluent French

Publications

"Reverse Discrimination and Freedom of Movement for Workers,"
Common Market Law Review, 1986, 135-156.

"'Trade Council Advertising and 'Free Movement of Goods' in European Law,"
International Journal of Advertising, 1985, 4, 233-240.

"The Pick & Flower of England: The Story of the Mormons in Victorian England," Living Legend, 2001.