| Year of birth | 1953 |
| Year of call | 1977 |
| Inn | Inner Temple |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
| QC | 2003 |
| Appointments | Appointed to SFO panel (2001) CLE advocacy instructor 1989-1999 |
| Publications | "Transsexual Rape-A loophole closed?" (Cr LR 1997) |
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A leading criminal defence silk who is regularly instructed in both crime and fraud as first choice counsel by most major defence firms having appeared in many high profile and reported cases.
He is cited in the Legal 500 (2008) as "a star" and in Chambers and Partners (2008) as "a real fighter-he’ll leave no stone unturned and has great leadership qualities" with "a pleasing style of advocacy-he appears laid-back but can be lethal in cross-examination" and "able to relate to clients from all spheres of society".
He came to prominence as junior defence counsel in R v Pryce, (the 17 year old musician accused in 1994 of hacking into the high security computer systems of the Pentagon and NASA). Thereafter he prosecuted a number of newsworthy cases: - R v Brian Harvey (the East 17 star), R v Shannon (the actor John Alford) and R v Earl of Hardwick (both News of the World "fake sheik" stings), R v Gani (the celebrity rolex robberies) and R v Chopra (the Samsung mobile telephone heist at Heathrow).
His recent appearances in silk include defending in the well publicised trials of
- R v Pesareanu (the Victoria Beckham Kidnap plot);
- R v Hendy-Freegard ( the "bogus MI5 agent kidnapper" and subject of a Channel 4 documentary);
- R v Clinton McKenzie (the boxer charged with allowing his premises to be used for drug dealing);
- R v Austin (a linked London City Bond appeal);
- R v Mihaylov the precedent setting trial on UK/USA disclosure protocols held at the Central Criminal Court;
- R v Byron Coles (an alleged member of the South London PCC Gang as featured in the BBC series "Murder Blue")
- The super-grass cases of R v Khan (Yusef) and R v Finn (Weir);
- R v Terrence Rodgers (the Lincolnshire father who killed his daughter shortly after her wedding).
In 2007, he acted for Kevin Brown at Woolwich in the most expensive security trial to date; was instructed in the 21/7 London bombings; and secured acquittals in three murder trials, namely R v Goburn, R v Hanson & Anor and R v Bhaskaran & Oths. He is currently (Part 3) representing in Trinidad the Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Abu Bakr, who is accused of terrorism and sedition with Al Qaeda links to the JFK Pipeline Bomb Plot; and instructed in the alleged "Lord Rodley Plot" to rob the Sumitomo Matsui Bank of £220 million.