Jo Morris has been admitted to the International Criminal Court’s List of counsel.
She already serves on the Working Group of the Kosovo Specialist Tribunal and has been admitted to the list of Specialist Counsel and the list of Victims Representatives.…
Tana Adkin QC and Clea Topolski and Nicholas Rhodes QC and Louise McCullough were instructed by Ola Yusuf of MW Solicitors in respect of a case arising out of Operation Yewtree. The Defendant who was by now an elderly man with multiple disabilities and in poor health had been the Officer in Charge of various children’s homes in the 1980s.…
Stephanie Hayward led by William Davis of 5 KBW secured 9 convictions and a total sentence of 15.5 years’ custody following a trial for redundancy payment fraud – the first fraud of its kind to be litigated in the U.K.
This multi-handed trial, (Operation Chum), which lasted 9 weeks and involved a 5-year conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, concerned the submission of hundreds of false claims to the Redundancy Payment Service (RPS).…
On the 15th January 2015, former President of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo, represented by Dr Andreas O’Shea of Charter Chambers, led by French lawyer, Emmanuel Altit, together with a team of lawyers from France and Ivory Coast, was acquitted on all charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).…
Clea Topolski and Tasmin Malcolm, instructed by Pelin Mehmet of Criminal Defence Solicitors, co-defending with Deborah Morris, submitted an abuse against process argument, heard as the fourth trial in the proceedings was about to commence.
The case originally charged three of the five defendants with s.18 OAPA (Causing Grievous Bodily Harm with intent) but the discovery of undisclosed medical evidence led to the Crown amending the indictment to an attempted GBH.…
Megan Fletcher, instructed by James Wilkinson of Thompsons Solicitors, represented a nurse in fitness to practice proceedings before the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Megan’s client faced six charges, described as being part of a catalogue of errors whilst Patient A was under the care of the Trust (many of the failings occurred before Megan’s client had any involvement with Patient A’s care).…
Stephanie Hayward, prosecuting, secured a unanimous guilty verdict in less than an hour for perverting the course of justice.
The Defendant had given false details to Police after stealing from Tesco. He had used his brother’s name, and date of birth to secure a penalty notice.…
Libby Anderson persuaded the High Court to quash her client’s conviction following a successful appeal by way of case stated before Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, and Mrs Justice McGowan.
Libby represented a man who had faced a charge of assault where the complainant did not attend for the Magistrates’ Court trial.…
Megan Fletcher, instructed by Hardeep Dhaliwal of Duncan Lewis Solicitors, represented her client at his sentencing hearing. He had pleaded guilty at PTPH to one count of conspiracy to defraud banking and insurance institutions and one count of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.…