| Year of birth | 1975 |
| Year of call | 1999 |
| Inn | Lincoln’s Inn |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
| Qualifications | BA (Hons) History, University College, London MA Medieval History, University College , London Diploma in Law, City |
| Awards | Wolfson and Hardwicke Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn |
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Angus is a specialist criminal advocate who both prosecutes and defends.
He is regularly instructed by CPS Special Casework as junior counsel (both led and alone) in difficult and sensitive cases. He is a grade 3 prosecutor and has particular experience of complex disclosure issues, public interest immunity, all areas of RIPA and of obtaining and handling evidence from other jurisdictions. He is often asked to provide pre-charge advice.
Angus’ recent prosecution cases have included human trafficking, people smuggling, sophisticated drug distribution and importation, serious corruption in public office and public nuisance. He has also prosecuted for the Medicines Agency and for the HSE. He has appeared in several high-profile Flying Squad trials and as junior in a baby-shaking case.
He is frequently instructed by leading defence solicitors to represent persons charged with serious criminal offences. Recent experience includes cases of money laundering under POCA and fraudulent trading under the Companies Act.
Notable Cases
| Case name | R v Gun and others (Op Bluesky) | Case name | R v Olawaye and others (Op Pauldings) |
| Appearance | Prosecution Junior to Treasury Counsel | Appearance | Defence Junior |
| Category | 10-handed human trafficking case | Category | Conspiracy to possess firearms |
| Detail | Largest case of its type ever to be investigated by the Metropolitan Police. UK end of a pan-European network with thousands of beneficiaries over 10 years. | Detail | Instructed by McCormacks in a long-running firearms conspiracy trial with ‘supergrass’ evidence called under SOCPA. |
| Case name | R v Figueredo | Case name | R v Ozdemir |
| Appearance | Prosecution (instructed alone) | Appearance | Prosecution Junior |
| Category | Corruption in public office | Category | Conspiracy to supply heroin |
| Detail | Instructed by CPS Special Casework to prosecute Home Office Higher Executive Officer fraudulently granting citizenship over a period of years. First in a series of similar trials. | Detail | 8-handed NCS investigation into a major Turkish heroin smuggling and distribution network. |