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Rachel Brand KC represented Williams Kokolo, who was acquitted by the unanimous verdict of the Jury following his trial at Coventry Crown Court. The Burton Albion player was accused of rape following an encounter with a woman he met on a dating app. He had always maintained that the sexual

Sania Shabbir, 26, was jailed for 4½ years on 14th June 2023 for killing Martyn Gall, 40 and causing life changing injuries to James Middleton, 31, on the A441 near Redditch just before 8am on Saturday 14th November 2020. Adam Western, prosecuting Shabbir, told Birmingham Crown Court that the two

In proceedings taking over 2 ½ years and following extensive legal argument on appeal, Henry succeeding in demonstrating that the Police failed to make the relevant applications within the tight statutory time limits and did not follow the very strict rules of procedure set out in Part 5 of P.O.C.A.

Syed Ahmed, leading Llewellyn Culver-Evans of Church Court Chambers, represented a client charged with conspiracy to supply class a drugs, in a four-week trial at St Albans Crown Court. The prosecution outlined a large-scale drugs operation, distributing multiple kilograms of cocaine throughout the Hertfordshire area, with the use of highly

Citadel Chambers are delighted to announce that Rupert Jones has been appointed as a Recorder by the King on the advice of the Lord Chancellor. Rupert has been deployed to the Midlands Circuit and will sit in the Crown Court. Rupert will continue as a member of Chambers and will

Jamie Scott has successfully prosecuted a defendant accused of orally raping a woman too drunk to consent outside a nightclub in Stoke. The defendant was unanimously convicted after a four-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. The defendant had found the victim slumped in an alcove by