Omar Majid

Crime

Instructed to prosecute and defend in a wide variety of criminal cases including trials in the Crown Court, Youth Court, and Magistrates’ Court, as well as cases in the Court of Appeal.

Instructions encompass a range of offences including serious violence, robbery, drugs, firearms, dishonesty, driving, and sexual offences, and include cases involving vulnerable witnesses and clients.

Recent and notable defence instructions have included:

• Successfully represented a client at trial for allegedly making threats to kill.
• While defending, successfully appealed the sentence of a pregnant mother coerced into conveying a package of drugs into prison (R v Severn [2018] EWCA Crim 1441).
• Successfully defended a fire officer with 25 years of experience charged with offences of domestic violence, where conviction would mean his dismissal.
• Represented an individual suffering from brain-damage in a finding of fact involving sexual offences at the Crown Court.
• Represented a youth in the Crown Court charged in a joint-enterprise armed robbery.
• Represented four defendants, including a youth, in an affray involving weapons.
• Defence instructions have also including motoring cases involving special reasons and exceptional hardship arguments.
• Prosecutes at Grade 2 level, Crown Court instructions have included a range of cases including offences of dishonesty, violence, firearms, and drugs.
• Instructions have also included prosecutions on behalf of the Insolvency Service.
• Has significant experience prosecuting and defending POCA and asset recovery cases, including section 22 applications.

Common Law:

• Instructed on behalf of claimants and defendants in a variety of hearings in the county court, including applications, small claims, and cases on the multi-track. Has experience of dealing with a wide variety of common law cases and is fully competent to accept instructions in such matters.
• In relation to employment and disciplinary matters, recently successfully defended a police officer charged with gross misconduct, thereby allowing him to keep his employment.

Drugs and Gang-Related Offences:

• While defending, successfully appealed the sentence of a pregnant mother coerced into conveying a package of drugs into prison (R v Severn [2018] EWCA Crim 1441).

Financial crime:

• Presently instructed defending in a large-scale fraud at a primary school involving multiple defendants.