| Year of birth | 1978 |
| Year of call | 2001 |
| Inn | Inner Temple |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
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Instructed in some of the most high profile trials of the past several years including R v Martin (the New Year’s eve shootings of Leticia Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis) and R v McGing (the manslaughter of detainees in Iraq by British Servicemen), he has become the premier choice for solicitors in cases that demand thorough and complex analysis, sensitive client care and robust advocacy.
He is regularly instructed to defend cases as first junior in large-scale multi-handed fraud and murder and has also acted as sole defence counsel in matters of serious violence (including attempted murder) and, most commonly, on behalf of defendants accused of high-value money laundering offences.
Last year Robert co-authored the first edition of the Solicitors’ Handbook on Money Laundering (Buckles LLP 2007) and has been invited to give accredited lectures on this topic and other areas of financial crime across the country.
In 2005 he was invited by the ESU to tour Sierra Leone and has subsequently been instructed to advise clients in cases involving war crimes and general abuses of human rights.
Notable Cases
| Case name | R v Tesfamichael | Case name | R v Martin |
| Appearance | Defence – Led Junior | Appearance | Defence |
| Detail | Night club murder in City of London. One of the largest investigations by the City of London police and required the extradition of Mr Tesfamichael from the USA. First case in which the prosecution sought to call witnesses under the auspices of the Witness Anonymity Act 2008. | Detail | Gangland shooting in Birmingham on New Year’s Eve of Leticia Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis. |
| Case name | R v Selby & Others | Case name | R v Bradley |
| Appearance | Defence – Led Junior | Appearance | Defence – Led Junior |
| Detail | Confiscation proceedings arising out of one the largest pension frauds in the UK. The case itself resulted in questions in parliament and a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry. | Detail | Brutal Murder of a mother of three small children (Lucy Hargreaves) at her home by an organised gang carrying out an alleged revenge attack. |