Oliver Glasgow

Oliver Glasgow

Oliver Glasgow

Oliver Glasgow courts high market esteem as one of the best juniors in the field 

Chambers UK, 2012

Appointed as Junior Treasury Counsel and on the Attorney-General's list of approved counsel. He is a talented and committed junior who is recommended in the top band of leading juniors in the Chambers and Partners Guide, where he is described as "hard working and fearless”, "commercial, hard-working and very approachable” and "one of the set's finest juniors”.

He regularly appears on behalf of the major prosecuting authorities and the principal defence solicitors in high profile trials of the most serious criminal offences. His practice concentrates on three principal areas: serious and organised crime; fraud and confiscation; and regulatory work.

His areas of expertise in serious and organised crime include, murder, firearms and human trafficking. In financial crime he specialises in VAT offences, money laundering, confiscation and civil restraint and forfeiture. In regulatory work he has extensive experience of a wide range of civil tribunals and judicial review, including appearing at the General Medical Council, the Bar Standards Board and the Health and Safety Executive, and defending in sports tribunal cases.

Chambers and Partners comment upon "his impressive knowledge of sports law” and "his evident prowess on the criminal side”.

Notable Cases

General Crime
Case name R v Martin Newman (HHJ McKinnon QC presiding)
Appearance Prosecuting
Category Manslaughter
Detail MN faced prosecution for gross negligence manslaughter in the first case of its kind. He had successfully imported a substantial quantity of liquid cocaine secreted in bottles of rum. One of the innocent couriers gave the bottle he was carrying to a friend who drank a small quantity of it and, due to the toxicity of the liquid, died of a cocaine overdose. Two relatives of the deceased also consumed some of the liquid at his wake, both of them collapsed and nearly died. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Case name R v Carlisle & Others (Common Serjeant of London presiding)
Appearance Prosecuting
Category Manslaughter
Detail The defendants comprised the two sides of an ongoing criminal dispute, which culminated in a violent clash played out on the streets of south London using their motor vehicles. Each car collided with the other in an attempt to escape injury or force their rivals off the road. As they sped along a residential street, at more than double the speed limit, the lead vehicle was struck by the pursuing vehicle. The driver of the lead vehicle lost control and collided with a cyclist who was returning home from his work at a bank in the City. Both vehicles fled the scene and the cyclist subsequently died in hospital from the injuries he had sustained. All the defendants were convicted and sentenced to between 15-18 years imprisonment.
Case name R v Claudio Lamponi & Massimiano Manai (HHJ Hone QC presiding)
Appearance Prosecution
Category Murder
Detail CL and MM were convicted of a double murder in which the two deceased were brutally battered and repeatedly stabbed to death. The ferocity and savagery of the attack was unknown to the Home office pathologist who conducted the post mortems. They were each sentenced to minimum terms of 27 years.
Case name A-G’s Reference Nos. 107-111 of 2009 (Iktilat & Others)
Appearance Prosecution
Category Money laundering and conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis
Detail The sentences of five of the offenders from this trial were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney-General. Their convictions were the result of a three year police investigation and three trials which lasted more than 15 months. The allegations concerned the laundering of more than £80 million and the planned importation of tens of kilos of cocaine and hundreds of kilos of cannabis. The judgment is now a leading authority on sentences for offences of this magnitude. (Cor: Moses L.J., Holman J. The Recorder of Nottingham)
Case name R v Jones & Others (HHJ Hone QC presiding)
Appearance Prosecution
Category Murder
Detail The defendants were prosecuted for the murder of a young man following a row at a party. The two rival factions, who came from different areas of east London, were at the same venue when hostilities broke out. Both sides descended to violence but the defendants, who had been chased from the scene, armed themselves and returned with re-enforcements. The deceased and his friends were chased back to the venue where the party was held. The deceased was caught outside the property, set upon and stabbed to death.
Health & Safety
Case name R v Select Plant Hire (HHJ Morris QC)
Appearance Prosecution
Category
Detail The defendant company was responsible for the installation of a tower crane at a building site in central London. An attempt to raise the height of the crane, to start the next phase of construction work on a residential tower block, ended in disaster when the crane collapsed causing serious injuries to several of the companies employees and millions of pounds of damage to a hotel which adjoined the site.
Sports Law
Case name RFU v Care, Strettle, Brown & Ojo
Appearance Defence
Category Misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute
Detail Whilst on tour to New Zealand with the England Rugby team, the four players were accused of participating in or encouraging the rape of a young woman at the team hotel. All four were the subject of worldwide newspaper articles which levelled serious allegations of criminal conduct against them. Following their return from tour the RFU held a disciplinary enquiry into the matter. All four players were cleared of any criminal misconduct and no proceedings were brought against them.
Case name ERC v Harlequins, Richards, Williams and Brennan
Appearance Defence
Category Misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute
Detail The infamous “bloodgate” scandal in which the club, its director of rugby, the principal physio and one of the players were accused of using dye capsules to fake a blood injury to one player in order to return an otherwise ineligible player to the field.