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|  R v Andrews Adams (2007) | |
| Tim Owen QC appeared for the appellant in the Court of Appeal. |
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| Yukos Oil Co v Financial Services Authority London Stock Exchange (2006) | |
| Clare Montgomery QC appeared in this challenge to the floatation of Russian oil group Rosneft on the London Stock Exchange which incorporated elements of public law, commercial law and criminal law. |
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| Gilbert v The Queen (2006) | |
| Clare Montgomery QC represented a former government minister in this leading case in the Privy Council which examined the general rule that it is for defence counsel and the defendant to ensure that the judge is aware that the defendant is relying on his good character. |
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| R v Dunlop (2006) | |
| Tim Owen QC, Hugh Tomlinson QC and Alex Bailin appeared in the first 'double jeopardy' case. |
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| R v Garcia and others (2006) | |
| “The Fertiliser Case” |
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| Najeib v Lee Bowyer (2006) | |
| Civil claim against premiership footballer |
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| London Borough of Bromley v C (2006) | |
| Concerned liability of parents to prosecution when children do not attend school while on holiday without the authority of the school. |
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| R v Milling, Jones, Pritchard, Olditch and Richards (2006) | |
| Concerned whether anti-war protesters charges with criminal damage could argue in their defence that they were preventing an unlawful crime of aggression. |
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| R v G & Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) | |
| Concerned whether The Sexual Offences Act 2003 s.5, which created the offence of rape of a child under 13 even where a defendant reasonably believed that the child was 13 or over, was compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.6(2. |
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| R v Sion Jenkins (2006) | |
| Sion Jenkins was acquitted of the murder of his foster daughter Billie-Jo, after a second re-trial in which the jury failed to reach a verdict. Julian Knowles defended Mr Jenkins. |
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| Zardad (2005) | |
| Anthony Jennings QC represented Mr Zardad in both his first and second trial, and Anthony Jennings QC and Alison Macdonald appeared in the preliminary hearing of the international law arguments. |
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| R v Sihali and others (2005) | |
| Defendants acquitted in “Ricin” trial. Matrix barristers Ben Emmerson QC, Matthew Ryder and Danny Friedman appeared on behalf of two of the acquitted men. They were instructed on behalf of Birnberg Peirce solicitors. |
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| R v Stanford (2005) | |
| The case concerns the internet businessman charged with the blackmail of Dame Shirley Porter. Tim Owen QC and Alex Bailin are appearing in this case which is pending. |
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| Lambert Watson v The Queen (2004) | |
| A 9 judge Board of the Privy Council ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was inhuman punishment contrary to Jamaica's constitution and international human rights standards. The present existing law clause did not apply to immunise this punishment from judicial amendment to ensure conformity with these standards. Henceforth all cases of capital murder in Jamaica required judicial sentencing hearings. Nicholas Blake QC and Julian Knowles appeared for Mr Watson. |
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| R v Sally Clark (2003) | |
| Clare Montgomery QC appeared in this case of a solicitor cleared of murdering her babies. |
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| R v Lyons (2002) | |
| Ben Emmerson QC and Julian Knowles appeared in this test case in the House of Lords outlining the point when a person is charged for the purposes of the reasonable time requirement under Article 6 HRA and available remedies for a breach of the right. |
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| R v Railtrack Plc & Ors (2003 -) | |
| Clare Montgomery QC and Alex Bailin represented the Chief Executive of Railtrack over the Hatfield rail crash, corporate manslaughter and health & safety charges. Alex Bailin now acts for Railtrack. |
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| R v Katharine Gun (2004) | |
| Alex Bailin, Ben Emmerson QC and Philippe Sands QC were instructed in this case concerning a GCHQ employee charged with Official Secrets Act disclosures in the lead-up to the Iraq war. |
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