The prosecution abandoned reliance on a forensic psychiatrist as an expert witness after Narita Bahra QC and Daniel Chadwick exposed his non-compliance with expert evidence rules and ensuing disclosure issues. The defence application to the court to comment upon and/or invite an inquiry into the expert psychiatric evidence obtained by the prosecution was successful. Narita […]
Daniel Chadwick acted for a man accused of seriously sexually assaulting his niece and nephew when they were children in the 1980s. The defence case was that the complainants had conspired to falsely accuse him as revenge for their involvement in publicising his daughter’s terminal illness in a local newspaper. Following a seven-day trial, the […]
Rebecca was instructed alone as Junior counsel. B and F were in a relationship for approximately 10 months. During this time, F fell pregnant with B’s child. The day after the child was born, F ended the relationship with B. A short time later F alleged that B had forcefully raped her three times and assaulted her once during the […]
A diamond boiler room fraud in excess of 3 million pounds collapsed following the discovery by Narita Bahra QC leading Nichola Higgins (Matrix) that the prosecution’s expert had a commercial relationship with the Metropolitan police and significant disclosure failings. The exposure resulted in the acquittal of their client and all defendants. Press coverage: The Times […]
Following the lifting of reporting restrictions, it can be reported that Mark Graffius QC, leading Gudrun Young, are defending a man, Richard Michael Hand, who is charged with murder and attempted murder at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant, known as Michael Hand, was charged with attempting to murder a man known to him for […]