| Year of birth | 1962 |
| Year of call | 1984 |
| Inn | Inner Temple |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
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Since moving to 2 Hare Court in 2002 he has developed a leading junior defence practice in all major areas of crime.
More recently he has become particularly involved in defending large-scale complex multi handed tax and benefit frauds as well as continuing to act in drug trafficking, money laundering and confiscation cases including that of R v Brian Wright in 2008.
He has also recently acted as independent counsel to the crown to advise on legal professional privilege.
Notable Cases
| Case name | R v Powell and others | Case name | R v Wright |
| Appearance | QC led defence junior | Appearance | QC led defence junior |
| Category | Conspiracy to supply heroin | Category | Conspiracy to supply cocaine |
| Detail | Multi-handed VHCC drug case; first argument re application for judge only trial; lengthy abuse of process argument re disclosure. | Detail | VHCC trial of main defendant following extradition proceedings; Contested £45m confiscation proceedings; argument re scope of Financial Reporting Orders |
| Case name | R v. Bashir | Case name | R v Iqbal |
| Appearance | Leading defence junior | Appearance | Leading defence junior |
| Category | Conspiracy to defraud the Revenue | Category | Conspiracy to defraud immigration service and social security system |
| Detail | VHCC multi handed large scale tax evasion case prosecuted by QC and 2 juniors based on company fraud over many years | Detail | Multi-handed trial prosecuted by QC and 2 juniors; large scale systematic abuse of asylum seeker claims in Thames Valley: largest prosecution of its kind at the time |