Young man accused of being part of a gang intent on murdering a rival gang-member in a ‘cashpoint cloning’ war.
20.12.2005
The RCPO sought to overturn a decision of the Crown Court to discharge a restraint order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 where the Crown Court had previously made...
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14.12.2005
The acquittal from murder charges against a GP accused of murdering three of his patients with morphine overdoses.
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06.12.2005
The trial of one of the last defendants in a £10 million MTIC fraud. Following his extradition from Cyprus, Phillipou was also tried for a related conspiracy to pervert the...
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30.11.2005
The appellants appealed against determinations of the minimum term in relation to mandatory life sentences imposed on them under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s. 269 following convictions for murder...
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25.11.2005
The High Court rejected a claim of judicial review on behalf of the applicant, Alamieyeseigha, the Governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria. He had sought to challenge the decision to...
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16.11.2005
The high profile murder and historic rape trial in which Wayne Doherty was found guilty by DNA evidence obtained 27 years after raping and murdering Norah Trott who was 63 years...
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04.11.2005
This case concerned the prosecution of five members of the extreme right wing group, the “Racial Volunteer Force”. They were sentenced for a total 15 years for admitting conspiracy to...
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01.11.2005
This was an appeal against a confiscation order made against S, accused of tax fraud. The fraud had operated by way of a company purchase scheme where a company with...
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14.09.2005
This Appeal concerned a major fraud involving a multi-handed conspiracy to steal a pension fund (described as “the biggest pension scandal since Maxwell”). Almost £3milliion was diverted from the Cheney...
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19.08.2005
An appeal was dismissed against Tax Consultant Anil Kumar who was convicted for cheating the public revenue out of the tax treatment of occupational pension schemes. Kumar operated a system...
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04.08.2005
This murder trial of Joseph Ashman, found guilty for the murder of of Lamont Silcott. The court recommended he serve a minimum of 25 years for the apparently motiveless attack.
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02.08.2005
This appeal was brought seeking to limit a defendant's determinate sentence of 20 years. Over 10 months Callum Hunter and his accomplices had committed 30 robberies while carrying imitation firearms...
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21.07.2005
This was a successful appeal brought by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) to the House of Lords relating to confiscation orders resulting from the conviction of three defendants for...
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01.07.2005
This widely reported murder trial is thought to be the longest in the history of the Metropolitan Police and of the Old Bailey and cost more than £10m. Three men...
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01.07.2005
This case concerned a $1.7 million Housing Benefit fraud which lasted 10 years at the London Borough of Camden. Hieten Patel used his position as a claims assessor in Camden’s housing...
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24.06.2005
Known as Operation Venison, this was an HM Revenue & Customs prosecution of a £100 million MTIC fraud.
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R v Loizou
[2005] EWCA Crim 1579, The Times 23rd June 2005
05.06.2005
The opening trial for this case alleged that money became criminal property when a person simply intended to use it for a criminal purpose. There was no authority for this...
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27.05.2005
This appeal raised issues about the availability and extent of any defence of medical necessity for the use of cannabis to relieve chronic pain in respect of the commission of...
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19.05.2005
A finding of unsafe conviction in the Court of Appeal. The court held that the Prosecution had collected evidence which was too speculative to carry the necessary probative value to...
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16.05.2005
This case concerned the largest VAT-loss sustained by Customs and Excise. An EU supplier of computer chips was at the heart of a Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud. Dylan Creaven, 31...
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15.05.2005
A multi-handed people smuggling case involving the largest investigation into human trafficking ever conducted by the Metropolitan Police. In this case David Williams and Rufus D’Cruz made successful use of the...
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13.04.2005
This case concerned the Ricin Conspiracy trial. Kamel Bourgass had stabbed to death a policeman during a raid in 2003. He was convicted of plotting to spread ricin and other poisons.
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11.03.2005
In a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Trinidad was held to be in breach of the American Convention on Human Rights. It was held that flogging as...
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09.02.2005
David Williams acted for Lewis, the first defendant in a large scale “missing trader” carousel fraud. This case was stayed as an abuse of the process of the court following...
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07.02.2005
The Court of Appeal found that, generally speaking, those responsible for the distribution of drugs within the UK should receive slightly lower sentences than those responsible for organising their importation...
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R v Last and Ors
The Times, 31 January 2005; [2005] EWCA Crim 106; [2005] Crim L R 407
27.01.2005
Guidelines issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council as to the effect of a guilty plea on the minimum term to be imposed on a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment for...
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