Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill defended the director of Golden Harvest, a wholesale alcohol supplier who was alleged to have acted as a “buffer company” in order to facilitate a complex MTIC fraud involving 13 defendants. The prosecution followed a large scale HMRC investigation, including covert surveillance and concealed cameras installed within the organisation’s “hub”. […]
Nikita McNeill is first junior counsel to the Anglican Church Investigation for The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which published its report last week into the case studies of the Diocese of Chichester and Peter Ball which were heard last year. The Diocese of Chichester has seen more members of clergy convicted of […]
Welcome to the Spring issue of 2 Hare Court’s Criminal Regulatory Newsletter. In this issue: Nikita McNeill reviews the Sentencing Council’s impact assessment following the introduction of the Definitive Guideline on Health and Safety offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene offences. Alex Tampakopoulos analyses the guidance from the Court of Appeal in respect […]
The Senior Coroner for Avon has commenced an inquest into the suicide of a Bristol University student, Natasha Abrahart who took her own life in May 2018. Bristol University has seen 12 university students have or are suspected of having taken their own lives in the past three years. The inquest is scheduled to last […]
Nikita McNeill represented a travel company in inquest proceedings following the death of 21 year old Kona Gamble who died from head injuries whilst on holiday in Ayia Napa in 2013. Mr Gamble’s friends found him badly injured, upside down and trapped on an air conditioning unit, on his own first floor balcony of a […]