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Aneurin Brewer

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  • Aneurin is highly intelligent and extremely diligent. He is a true pleasure to work with.

    Legal 500 (2026)
  • Aneurin is very hardworking, prepares meticulous written legal arguments and is proactive in doing so. He has a very calm, persuasive and assertive style of advocacy that seems to rapidly bring people round to his way of thinking.

    Legal 500 (2025)
  • Aneurin is a proven trial winner. He does not rest and has won impossible cases over and over. He is also extremely learned and an experience appellate advocate.

    Legal 500 2021 (Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 4 General Crime
  • Legal 500: leading junior (Tier 4, Crime)

    A polished advocate and hard worker. His judgement is sound in difficult tactical situations. An excellent barrister who clearly fights hard for his client.

    Legal 500 2020 (Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 4 General Crime

Personal profile

Aneurin has developed a well-deserved reputation as a tenacious and conscientious advocate with a down-to-earth demeanour and a talent for winning the confidence and trust of lay clients and juries.

He is currently, and has been for several years, ranked in the Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in the field of Crime.

Aneurin is an acknowledged expert in criminal proceedings arising from the interception of Encrochat. He represented the five lead claimants in the test case before the IPT and has appeared in a large number of contested Encrochat related Crown Court proceedings.

Aneurin also has extensive experience of immigration related offending. In 2021, in a series of appeals, Aneurin developed a novel defence to the prosecution of small boats pilots resulting in a large number of successful appeals against conviction and a change in the law.

Aneurin regularly advises on and conducts appeals against conviction and/or sentence on a referral basis, often after trial counsel has advised there are no grounds of appeal.

Recommendations

Aneurin is highly intelligent and extremely diligent. He is a true pleasure to work with.

― Legal 500 (2026)

Aneurin is very hardworking, prepares meticulous written legal arguments and is proactive in doing so. He has a very calm, persuasive and assertive style of advocacy that seems to rapidly bring people round to his way of thinking.

― Legal 500 (2025)

“Aneurin is a proven trial winner. He does not rest and has won impossible cases over and over. He is also extremely learned and an experience appellate advocate.”

― Legal 500 2021 (Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 4 General Crime

Legal 500: leading junior (Tier 4, Crime)

“A polished advocate and hard worker. His judgement is sound in difficult tactical situations. An excellent barrister who clearly fights hard for his client.”

― Legal 500 2020 (Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 4 General Crime

Business Crime & Fraud

Aneurin is regularly instructed in cases related to financial crime of the utmost seriousness and complexity, both allegations of substantive dishonesty offences and consequent money laundering, often requiring consideration of complex financial evidence and evidence from expert forensic accountants. He also has extensive experience of resisting Proceeds of Crime (“POCA”) confiscation proceedings arising from criminal convictions on behalf of defendants and interested third parties such as spouses. Recent examples of Aneurin’s experience include:

  • R v R (2021) Represented the wife of a defendant convicted of a multi-million pound diversion fraud as an interested party in her erstwhile husband’s confiscation proceedings pursuant to section 10A POCA, successfully securing for her 2/3rds of the equity in their matrimonial home despite her husband being the sole legal owner.
  • R v S (2021) Defended one of the lead defendants of eight charged in a 10 million-pound money laundering conspiracy allegedly linked to a multi-million pound diversion fraud prosecuted by HMRC. (see R v Porter [2024] Crim. L.R. 344)
  • R v S (2021) Defended an alleged confidence fraudster charged with playing a leading role in a wide-ranging fraud of numerous elderly victims with over £200,000 successfully defrauded.
  • R v W (2021) Advised on appeal against the imposition of a confiscation order following convictions for involvement in a boiler room fraud on the basis of inadequate advice by the appellant’s original representatives.
  • R v O (2020) Drafted representation on charge on behalf of a suspect alleged to have run a substantial investment fraud with numerous alleged victims. The suspect was not charged with any offences.
  • R v M (2019) Defended an elderly man in a five-week trial charged with laundering hundreds of thousands of pounds through foreign bank accounts on behalf of his son who was charged with a substantial business tax fraud prosecuted by HMRC. The defendant was acquitted on all charges.
  • V v P (2019) Advised a vintage wine broker on a million-pound fraud they were a victim of, involving the artificial inflation of purchase prices for vintage investment grade wines.
  • R v Y (2019) Defended, as a led junior, a car trader charged with substantial VAT and income tax avoidance. The case turned on expert evidence from forensic accountants in relation to historic niche VAT regulations. A plea was eventually entered on an agreed limited basis resulting in a suspended sentence.
  • R v S (2019) Defended, as a led junior, a business owner charged with a substantial VAT and income tax fraud related to the operation of his call centre business. The charges were eventually abandoned by the prosecution following defence representations on the basis of psychiatric evidence.
  • R v N (2018) Defended, as a led junior, a man charged with running a substantial money laundering operation. The Crown eventually offered no evidence and the defendant was acquitted.
  • R v B (2018) Defended, as a led junior, a defendant said to have fraudulently operated debit card terminals in an eight-week multi-handed multi-million-pound brothel keeping and money laundering trial.
  • R v A (2017) Defended, as a led junior, a business owner in an eight-week multi-handed immigration fraud trial arising from a Panorama programme Press Report.
  • R v M (2017) Defended, as a led junior, a warehouse owner in a two-month trial concerning a complex multi-million-pound trans-European VAT and alcohol excise duty diversion fraud and alcohol smuggling operation involving cross jurisdictional evidential issues Press Report.
  • V v D (2017) Advised on private prosecution against a fraudulent investment advisor by his victims.

Serious & Organised Crime

Aneurin regularly represents those alleged to have played a leading role in organised criminal groups (“OCG”) following pro-active, intelligence led national and international investigations; as well as those caught up in organised criminality in lesser roles particularly through coercion and modern slavery. Recent examples of Aneurin’s experience include:

  • R v NA (2025) Represented a defendant said to have organised and financed a crossing of the British Channel by a small boat of asylum seekers. The alleged offences dated back to 2000. In the first known case of its type the prosecution was stayed as an abuse of process when it was shown that the prosecution’s exercise of its discretion to continue to pursue the charges was “irrational”.
  • R v CU (2025) Represented a defendant charged with possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and associated offences. Detailed analysis of the defendant’s phone records demonstrated that the supply was merely social. Exceptionally the defendant received a suspended sentence.
  • R v MH (2025) Represented a defendant charged with numerous firearms and drugs offences who was said to be a principal member of an Organised Crime Group linked to a significant seizure of firearms and ammunition. At trial the Crown accepted pleas to Lesser Role Class A drug supply on the basis he was merely a runner for a drugs line and offered no evidence on all the firearms matters.
  • R v MZ (2024) Represented, as a led junior, the lead defendant in a large intelligence-led, multi-handed prosecution of five linked people smuggling rings. The five conspiracies concerned “hundreds, if not thousands” of vulnerable migrants being brought to the UK concealed in goods lorries often in “clearly extremely dangerous” conditions. Aneurin’s client was alleged to be the “figurehead” and “prime mover” of all five distinct conspiracies. The case had a large number of legal/evidential complexities including evidence from two other jurisdictions and foreign telephone interception. The defendant was convicted in his absence after he fled the jurisdiction. The size and sophistication of the conspiracy led to the defendant receiving one of the longest sentences ever handed down for these types of offences (20 years’), which is currently under appeal. Press Report, Press Report & Press Report
  • R v EB (2003) Represented, led Ms Felicia Davy, a young female defendant charged with people trafficking offences related to the alleged recruiting of vulnerable pre-teen and adolescent victims to act as county lines runners in a different part of the country. The defendant had a number of significant vulnerabilities of her own and was arguably herself a victim of grooming by the principal conspirators to play the role alleged. The Crown were persuaded to accept a plea on a minimal basis following 10 days of trial, allowing for her immediate release.
  • EncroChat and Op Venetic (2022-23) Represented, as a led junior, the five lead claimants in the test case before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) challenging the lawfulness of the Targeted Equipment Interference Warrants issued to the NCA to permit the interception of Encrochat in the first challenge to the lawfulness of the NCA’s warrants in this hugely consequential investigation. The claim was also the first challenge to this class of warrant to date. The challenge was brought on the basis that: the interception was in fact utilised live intercept; the NCA acted in bad faith; and, the interception was unlawful bulk interference. Press Report. (see SF v NCA [2023] 5 WLUK 480)
  • R v F (2023) Represented a defendant in three separate substantial class A drug importation and supply conspiracies arising from Encrochat interception all being tried at the Crown Court at Newcastle. The defence sought to deploy nationally leading expert evidence on the mechanism of the interception challenging the lawfulness and admissibility of the interception Press Report.
  • R v M (2023) Represented a defendant charged with involvement in a commercial sophisticated conspiracy to bring migrants to the UK concealed in a corrupt lorry driver’s trailer Press Report.
  • R v X (2022) Defended, led by David Etherington K.C., an alleged Encrochat user alleged to have arranged for the importation of hundreds of kilos of cocaine through the use of a corrupted cargo agent. The trial involved competing expert cell site evidence seeking to dispute co-location Press Report.
  • R v H (2022) Represented a defendant charged with a class A drugs supply conspiracy arising from Encrochat interception said to be the largest such conspiracy ever prosecuted by Thames Valley Police Press Report.
  • R v H (2022) Represented a father and son in proceedings against them for a series of sophisticated commercial burglaries of commercial storage units resulting in over £1.5 million in goods beings stolen. Both defendants received suspended sentences.
  • R v K (2021) Defended in a retrial following a successful appeal against conviction a pilot of a small boat of asylum seekers crossing the British Channel charged with people smuggling. The defendant was acquitted on the basis he and those on board were all merely asylum seekers seeking to be rescued at sea Press Report.
  • R v S (2021) Defended a youth charged with a modern slavery offence concerning the alleged coercion of younger children into class A street dealing. The prosecution persuaded to offer no evidence on the modern slavery offence.
  • R v O (2021) Defended a young man charged with repeated class A street dealing while on bail for previous similar offences. The defendant eventually received a suspended sentences when it was demonstrated that he was acting under coercion short of a legal defence.
  • R v L (2020) Defended an alleged lieutenant in a large scale multi-handed cocaine supply conspiracy. Following a six-week trial the jury were unable to reach a verdict on the defendant and he eventually received a suspended sentence following a plea on an agreed limited basis.
  • R v TX (2019) Defended a mechanic caught up in a complex, multi-handed car-ringing conspiracy. Following a five-week trial, turning on expert mechanical evidence, the defendant was acquitted.
  • R v B (2018) Defended a cocaine smuggler in two eight-week multi-handed trials for a multi-kilo cocaine importation conspiracy, turning on detailed telephone billing data and banking evidence Press Report.
  • R v B (2017) Defended a “trusted lieutenant” of one of the Stephen Lawrence murder suspects charged with running a substantial wholesale cannabis supply conspiracy Press Report.

Murder & Manslaughter

Aneurin regularly represents defendants charged with offences of violence of the utmost seriousness including homicides. Recent examples of Aneurin’s experience include:

  • R v MJ (2025) Represented, led by David Etherington K.C., a defendant charged with the attempted murder of three school children when he drove at them with his car during an acute psychiatric episode. The trial involved three competing psychiatric expert witnesses. The defendant was acquitted of all three counts of attempted murder.
  • R v MH (2025) Represented a defendant charged, along with his brother, with attempted murder following a knife attack on an alleged drug dealer causing 9 stab wounds to his torso, head and face including a punctured lung. The Crown accepted pleas to section 18 wounding with intent.
  • R v OB (2025) Represented, as a led junior, a defendant charged with conspiracy to murder after he was alleged to have repeatedly shot a handgun through the letter box of a flat seriously injuring an occupant.
  • R v BB (2025) Represented, led by Jenni Dempster K.C., a Kazakh national charged with the knife point murder of his house mate in a drunken fight in which he inflicted some 19 stab wounds. The incident was not witnessed by anyone and so turned on forensic blood pattern analysis from the scene and pathology evidence from the postmortem.
  • R v CC (2025) Represented a defendant charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a road traffic collision in which the defendant’s best friend was fatally injured. The defendant received life changing head injuries causing complete amnesia of the incident and there were no witnesses or CCTV of the events leading to the collision. The case therefore turned exclusively on competing expert Forensic Collision Investigators’ opinions. The prosecution were persuaded to accept a plea to causing death by careless driving and the defendant received a suspended sentence.
  • R v DR (2023) Defended, led by Jenni Dempster K.C., a defendant charged with murder following his participation in an armed home invasion of a drug dealer’s home in which the householder was stabbed and shot with ball bearings multiple times. The defendant having changed his defence from alibi to presence but non-participation in the first week of trial was unanimously acquitted of murder Press Report.
  • R v El-C (2023) Defended, as a led junior, a teenager charged with the murder of a young man following a chance meeting in the street. The defendant accepted fatally stabbing the deceased nine times, seven of which were to the back. The defendant was unanimously acquitted on murder and manslaughter on the basis of self-defence Press Report.
  • R v B (2023) Defended, as a led junior, the first small boats pilot charged with the manslaughter of a number of passengers who tragically drowned when the boat he was piloting capsized during their crossing of the Channel. The case involved the novel application of concepts of causation and gross negligence to small boats pilots and the development of a novel defence to the recently amended s.25 facilitation of illegal arrivals in the UK offence Press Report. (see R v Ibrahima Bah [2025] 1 Cr. App. R. 24, [2024] EWCA Crim 1499)
  • R v L (2022) Defended, as a led junior, one of three defendants charged with a fatal stabbing following a fight between class A dealers in a “crack den”. The defendant was acquitted on the basis of self-defence Press Report.
  • R v V (2022) Defended, led by Jenni Dempster K.C., a man charged with murdering his sister-in-law with an axe, the issue being competing psychiatric evidence as to whether he was suffering diminished responsibility at the time of the killing Press Report.
  • R v B (2022) Defended a defendant charged with gross negligence manslaughter following a fatal car accident resulting in the tragic death of a 2 year old Press Report.
  • R v Y (2021) Defended one of five defendants charged with offences including kidnap, false imprisonment and attempted section 18 wounding. Following defence requests for disclosure, the prosecution offered no evidence on all charges, save for one of affray and the defendant received a suspended sentence.
  • R v D (2020) Defended, led by Jenni Dempster KC, a 15 year old charged with the fatal stabbing of by another 15 year old aboard a bus in Stratford. The defendant was convicted of murder but acquitted of section 18 wounding in relation to a stabbing of a second boy on the same occasion Press Report.
  • R v M (2020) Defended, as a led junior, an 18 year old with learning difficulties in a conspiracy to murder trial concerning two gang related drive by shootings. The defendant was discharged at the close of the prosecution case following a defence submission of no case to answer Press Report.
  • R v S (2020) Defended a man charged with providing a car used in a fatal, gang related drive by shooting. Following submissions on the admissibility of DNA evidence the Crown offered no evidence against the defendant and he was acquitted.
  • R v A (2020) Defended a woman charged, along with four others, with conspiracy to stab a bouncer which resulted in the victim receiving life changing injuries. The defendant was acquitted after the prosecution offered no evidence.
  • R v M-W (2018) Defended a youth on appeal from the youth court against charges of witness intimidation and section 18 wounding in an alleged gang stabbing involving cross examination of a vulnerable young complainant to show his account was not truthful. The defendant was acquitted following a retrial.

Appeals

Aneurin is frequently instructed to give a second opinion on grounds of appeal against conviction and sentence on a referral basis, often after trial counsel’s negative advice. He regularly appears before the Court of Appeal on behalf of clients he has represented in proceedings before the lower Courts and on behalf of appellants previously represented by others. He has been repeatedly praised by the Court of Appeal for his submissions including by Lord Justice Dingemans for “his succinct and reasoned submissions” in R v Brown [2019] EWCA Crim 2317, and by HHJ Collier KC the former Recorder of Leeds for his “focused and helpful advice on appeal, which was of great assistance in helping us” in R v Lordan [2017] EWCA Crim 905. Recent examples of Aneurin’s experience include:

  • R v Kakaei [2021] EWCA Crim 503 Appeal against conviction granted, after leave to appeal was refused by the single Judge, confirming a novel defence against charges of facilitating a breach of immigration law in relation to pilots of small boats of asylum seekers crossing the English Chanel, on the basis that asylum seekers do not breach an immigration law by seeking to arrive in the UK in order to claim asylum. Following the appellant’s acquittal at the subsequent retrial the CPS changed its Guidance on charging asylum seekers, offered no evidence in a further 12 on-going prosecutions and ultimately the Government of the day made significant consequent amendments to the Immigration Act 1971 in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022. Aneurin conducted a further 11 successful appeals against other convictions of pilots of small boats convicted before Kakaei including R v Bani [2021] EWCA Crim 1958, R v Rakei (8th February 2022 unreported), R v Khodamoradi [2022] EWCA Crim 37 and R v Bahadorie [2024] EWCA Crim 1778. In his subsequent appeal of Bani the Court of Appeal criticised the CPS for having adopted a legal “heresy” with respect to these prosecutions. Press Report, Press Report, Press Report & Press Report.
  • R v Ibrahima Bah [2025] 1 Cr. App. R. 24, [2025] Crim. L.R. 238, [2024] EWCA Crim 1499
    Appeal against conviction on behalf of the first small boats pilot to be convicted of manslaughter arising from the tragic drownings of the appellants passengers when the vessel he piloted foundered in the British Channel. The case concerned the extension of the principles of causation and criminal liability to these novel circumstances. Press Report, Press Report & Press Report
  • R v Moran [2025] EWCA Crim 577
    Appointed by the Register of the Court of Appeal to appear on behalf of a defendant who applied unrepresented for leave to appeal out of time his period of disqualification on the basis of his early release from prison. The Court reduced his extended period of disqualification by just over 12 months. The Court thanked both counsel for “the considerable assistance we have received from….their helpfully focussed written and oral submissions.”
  • R v AA (2025) Appeal against sentence granted despite negative advice on appeal by sentencing counsel and refusal of leave by the Single Judge, in a case of an appellant who pleaded guilty to creating and disseminating indecent images of children as well as sharing intimate images with a 14-year-old girl online and possession of a paedophile manual. The Court reduced the sentence by 8 months’ to 3 years and 4 months’ imprisonment. The Court thanked Aneurin Brewer for “his very clear written advice and grounds and his succinct and helpful oral submissions which were measured, realistic, well-structured and helpful throughout.”
  • Palmer v NCA [2024] EWCA Civ 1095
    Appealed on behalf of the five lead applicants to the Court of Appeal Civil Division the refusal by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) to rule the warrants underpinning the interception of Encrochat were unlawful.
  • R v G (2022) Secured leave to appeal a sentence following a negative advice on appeal by trial counsel for an appellant who had impersonated a police officer and seized hundreds of thousands of pounds from wholesale drug dealers.
  • R v L (2022) Secured leave to appeal sentence following a negative advice on appeal by trial counsel for a 21 year old appellant imprisoned following a six month sexual relationship with a 15 year old girl. The Court of Appeal were persuaded to amend the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (“SHPO”).
  • R v Singh [2020] EWCA Crim 276 Appealed against a sentence, after leave to appeal had been refused on the basis of trial counsel’s grounds of appeal, resulting in a reduction of a sentence of imprisonment from 78 to 71 months in a case of a sophisticated and substantial identity fraud.
  • R v H (2020) Appealed against the imposition of the majority of the terms imposed in a Sexual Harm Prevent Order (“SHPO”) following a conviction for possession of indecent images of children, which the prosecution did not oppose following receipt of the grounds of appeal.
  • R v Brown [2019] EWCA Crim 2317 ¬Renewed an application for leave to appeal a murder conviction on the basis of fresh psychiatric evidence, in which, although unsuccessful, he was praised by L.J. Dingemans.
  • R v Abdurahman [2019] EWCA Crim 2239 Drafted grounds of appeal on behalf of trial counsel in a referral by the CCRC of a conviction linked to the 7/7 bombings on the basis of a contested confession and following a successful appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
  • R v Adnan Khan [2019] EWCA Crim 2084 Appealed, as a led junior, a sentence for a high-level class A drug dealer following an extensive period on the run reducing the sentence from 12 to 10 years’ imprisonment.
  • R v Iyas Khan ¬¬ [2019] EWCA Crim 2320 Appealed, as a led junior, against a conviction for possession with intent to supply 10 kilos of heroin on the basis of the evidential insufficiency of fingerprints on a movable object and cross admissibility of counts.
  • R v S, W & C (2018) Advised, as a led junior, on an appeal against the CCRC’s refusal to refer the applicants’ convictions for the infamous “Rettendon” fatal gang shooting in 1995 to the Court of Appeal.
  • R v Miah [2018] EWCA Crim 364 Appealed against a sentence for causing serious injury by dangerous driving reducing the sentence of imprisonment from 3 to 2 years’.
  • R v Boyle [2018] EWCA Crim 2567 Appealed against a sentence imposed for an offence of assault by penetration by a defendant who posed as a doctor.
  • R v Lordan [2017] EWCA Crim 905 Appealed against a sentence for a series of handbag thefts reducing the sentence from 42 to 16 months’.
  • R v Riddle [2017] 1 W.L.R. 3593 Persuaded the Court of Appeal to enlarge the defences available for dangerous driving to include self-defence and to reduce a sentence of imprisonment to allow for the defendant’s immediate release in a case of intentionally driving at a victim causing injuries.
  • R v Galvin [2016] EWCA Crim 2216 Resisted an Attorney General’s Reference for an unduly lenient sentence for a series of organized robberies of lorries.
  • R v Martin Clayton [2014] EWCA Crim 557 Appealed against a sentence for a courier of 10 kilos of cannabis reducing his sentence of imprisonment from 14 to 10 months’.
  • R v T (2014) Appealed, as a led junior, against sentence and advised on an appeal against conviction in a shaken baby case on the basis of fresh scientific evidence.
  • R v Noorullah [2012] EWCA Crim 1643 Appealed, as a led junior, against a conviction and sentence for handling £2 million worth of stolen prescription medicines.
  • R v Jamshed Khan [2011] EWCA Crim 2240 Appealed, as a led junior, a conviction in the case of the 2005 Bradford general election fraud Press Report.
  • R v Flounders [2011] EWCA Crim 2907 Appealed against a sentence imposed for a domestic burglary reducing the sentence from 3 and half years’ to 18 months’ imprisonment.

Sexual Offences

Aneurin is regularly instructed in defence of people charged with serious sexual offences and advises on and conducts appeals on behalf of defendants convicted of sexual offences. He regularly appears on behalf of defendants charged with all manner of offences related to indecent images of children and extreme pornography. Recent examples of Aneurin’s experience include:

  • R v DR (2025) Represented, led by Davied Etherington K.C., a defendant charged with 14 counts of rape, relating to allegations of continuing to have penetrative sex with a partner after they had fallen unconscious during an otherwise consensual “chem sex” session in which tragically the other party ultimately died as a result of complications. The case concerned the novel legal question of prior consent to acts when unconscious given before losing consciousness.
  • R v NB (2025) Represented an adult man charged with two incestuous rapes on subsequent nights of his adult sister. His defence was that although sex had occurred between the pair it was consensual. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
  • R v SC (2025) Represented a homeless asylum seeker charged with multiple sexual and violent offences related to allegations of repeatedly forcing his way into a complainant’s home. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
  • R v WK (2025) Represented a Ugandan man charged with sexually abusing his 12-year-old niece. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
  • R v CF (2024) Represented a Czech man charged with sexually abusing an adult house guest at a party at his home. The defendant denied the alleged events had occurred. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
  • R v LT (2024) Represented, as a led junior, a defendant charged with repeated historic rapes and sexual abuse of his two stepchildren from a previous marriage. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
  • R v W (2023) Applied on behalf of a Veterinary Surgeon to be returned to the Veterinary Surgeon Register following his conviction for possession of indecent images of children. The applicant was re-admitted to the Register.
  • R v H (2021) Defended, as a led junior, the Rt. Hon. Simon Howard charged with sexually abusing a six year old girl in 1984 who was staying at his stately home, Castle Howard. The Court was persuaded the defendant was unfit to plead due to amnesia and consequently he received an absolute discharge Press Report & Press Report.
  • R v Y (2021) Defended a Police Superintendent charged with exposure when he was alleged to have masturbated in the presence of a young woman in the countryside. The defendant was unanimously acquitted when it was demonstrated the defendant had prostate problems and was merely urinating Press Report.
  • R v S (2021) Defended a professional man alleged by two young women to have sexually and then violently assaulted them both while they were walking home from a night out. The defendant was acquitted on the basis that the complainants had drunkenly misconstrued and exaggerated his actions.
  • R v W (2021) Defended a defendant charged with rape by deceiving his ex-boyfriend into believing he was having sex with someone else.
  • R v H (2020) Lodged grounds of appeal against the imposition of the majority of the terms imposed by a Sexual Harm Prevent Order (“SHPO”) following conviction before the Crown Court for possession of indecent images of children, which the prosecution did not oppose following receipt of the grounds of appeal.
  • R v Z (2020) Defended a defendant who had repeatedly videoed himself urinating on unsuspecting women whilst on public transport as well as taking “up-skirting” photos and possessing extreme pornography and indecent images of children. The defendant received a suspended sentence.
  • R v Boyle [2018] EWCA Crim 2567 Appealed against a sentence imposed for an offence of assault by penetration by a defendant who posed as a doctor.
  • R v M (2019) Appealed, as a led junior, against the length of a sentence of imprisonment imposed for a campaign of historic rapes, while the defendant was still a juvenile, of two younger cousins.
  • R v P (2015) Defended, as a led junior, a child of service personnel based in Germany before the Court Martial charged with rape of another juvenile. The defendant was acquitted.
  • R v E (2015) Defended a youth charged with repeated rapes of a younger boy with ostensible consent. The defendant received a non-custodial disposal following a plea on an agreed and limited basis.

Education

  • Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School: Very Competent
  • GDL, City University: Distinction
  • BA (Hons) Philosophy, Bristol University: First

Awards

  • Overall Winner of the Inner Temple Pupil Advocacy Prize
  • Inner Temple Major Scholar
  • ESU British Universities Team Member for the annual 3-month tour of US Universities
  • Semi-finalist at the World Student Debating Championships, Singapore
  • Champion at the European Student Debating Championships, Croatia

Professional appointments

  • CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 3), (2018)

Memberships

  • CBA

Publications

  • In Hot Water? Defending Small Boats Pilots following the Nationality & Borders Act 2022, New Law Journal (4 July 2025), Author
  • An Analysis of the Nationality Law, The Law Society Gazette (21 July 2021), Author
  • Patel’s Policies Only Seek to Target Vulnerable Refugees, The Times (3 June 2021), Co-author with Jenni Dempster QC
  • Prosecutions for Assisting Unlawful Immigration in Small Boats Cases: The Key to Acquittal, Free Movement (17 May 2021), Author

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