Email: PracticeStaff_TeamM@matrixlaw.co.uk
We offer an unrivalled combination of specialist skills and experience in domestic and international crime and associated areas of regulatory law. We practise in numerous different areas and combine cutting edge forensic, advocacy and legal skills to ensure the best possible representation for the client. Many members have authored the leading works in their fields of practice.
We can offer a unique blend of criminal, human rights and public law experience and are frequently instructed to act for a range of clients in criminally - related judicial review proceedings, inquests and inquiries.
We also specialise in appellate work, and members have appeared in many high - profile Court of Appeal and House of Lords cases, capital appeals to the Privy Council, as well as Strasbourg litigation.
Our members are also frequently retained to provide strategic advice to corporations and individuals in relation to the pre-charge and investigatory stages of a case.
We act for both prosecution and defence as well as individuals, companies and regulatory authorities, and appear in courts throughout the UK and abroad, from the magistrates’ court up to the Supreme Court.
Our members’ areas of expertise include:
• Serious crime including homicide, terrorism, corporate manslaughter, large-scale public order cases, official secrets and espionage
• White collar crime including fraud, corruption, insider dealing and money laundering
• Crime related judicial review, including challenges to search warrants and production orders
• Asset restraint and confiscation
• Health and safety
• Courts-martial
• War crimes and international criminal tribunal work
• FSA investigations and tribunals
• Professional disciplinary tribunals
• Extradition and international mutual assistance
Recent cases in which we have been involved include:
• R v Jama (the murder of WPC Beshenivsky)
• R v Bourgass (the murder of DC Oake and the ricin terrorism conspiracy)
• The 7/7, 21/7 and ‘Airlines’ liquid bomb terrorism cases
• Prosecutor v Ramush Haradinaj (Prime Minister of Kosovo tried in the ICTY)
• R v Siôn Jenkins (the Billie-Jo murder case)
• R v Hendy – Freegard (kidnapping by fraud)
• R v Katherine Gun (spying by GCHQ official)
• R v Pasquill (prosecution of FCO official for official secrets offences)
• R v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (the Jean Charles De Menezes shooting)
• R v Corporal Donald Payne (court-martial for war crimes)
• R v John Leslie (TV presenter accused of rape)
• HSBC Bank PLC v Brown (private prosecution of major political donor)
• R v Sally Clark (miscarriage of justice in relation to cot death)
• R (Noye) v CCRC (challenge by Kenneth Noye to CCRC decision)
• R v Watson (Privy Council, mandatory death penalty)
• R v Lyons (House of Lords, the Guinness appeal)
• Lewis v Attorney-General (Privy Council, prerogative of mercy and fairness)
• The Pinochet extradition case
• McKinnon v USA (House of Lords, extradition of Pentagon hacker)
• Spain v Dabas (House of Lords, extradition for Madrid train bombings)
• Spain v Boudhiba (extradition for 9/11 attacks)
• Bermingham v Director of the SFO (extradition of 'the Natwest 3')
• Russia v Nikitin and Skarga (extradition of former CEO of Sovcomflot)
• Russia v Azarov (request for extradition of Volgatanker CEO)
• In Re A (minors) (Medical Treatment: conjoined twins) (legality of separation surgery where one twin would certainly die)
• R v Lambert (House of Lords, compatibility of reverse onus of proof clauses with Article 6 (2) of the Convention)
• R v Rezvi (House of Lords, compatibility of confiscation law with the ECHR)
• R v Dunlop (double jeopardy under the CJA 2003)
• R v Cliff Stanford (prosecution of founder of Demon Internet for computer blackmail)
Members have authored or contributed to the following works:
• Smith, Owen and Bodnar, Asset Recovery (Oxford)
• Montgomery and Ormerod, Fraud (Oxford)
• Nicholls, Montgomery and Knowles, The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance (2nd Edn, Oxford)
• Emmerson, Ashworth and Macdonald, Human Rights and Criminal Justice (2nd Edn, Sweet & Maxwell)
• Knowles, Blackstone’s Guide to the Extradition Act 2003 (Oxford)
• Archbold (Sweet & Maxwell)
• Young, Summers and Corker, Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings (3rd Edn, Bloomsbury)
• Choo, Abuse of Process and Judicial Stays of Criminal Proceedings (2nd Edn, Oxford)
For further information and a full list of notable cases, download the brochure by clicking the 'downloads' tab below. Here you can also download the full MP3 audio from our 2009 Business Crime & Regulatory Law Seminar.
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