Called to the Bar 1975, QC 1997
Representation of the People Act [election fraud]
His successfully prosecuting one of the earliest cases involving computerised telephone evidence.
He has a special expertise in relation to covert surveillance and phonetic interpretation, and he has developed a practice protocol for covert surveillance evidence.
He has defended a case where the central witness for the prosecution was anonymous [under the 2008 legislation]
He successfully overcame a phalanx of pathology evidence ranged against him in a manslaugter prosecution against a club bouncer [drawing on his forensic medical experience]
He has a wide experience of human rights issues [including in the Court of Appeal]
Complex issues of ballistic evidence and DNA [he has a particular expertise in genetics]
Confiscation and Proceeds of Crime
He deployed his expertise in child psychology [harvested from practice in the Family Division] successfully to defend an family member charged as being part of a paedophile ring.
He has a particular expertise in non-accidental head injury to babies, again harmonising his experience of the Crown Court and the Family Division.
He challenged the telephone statistical evidence in one of the largest cases prosecuted by Avon and Somerset for 15 years securing an acquittal where his clients was charged with conspiracy to murder.
Recent lead cases in the Court of Appeal as to joint enterprise, and SOCPA agreements. He has been licensed to appear in criminal trials in the Isle of Man.