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A man has been acquitted of Attempting to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm at Wolverhampton Crown Court. Ilana Davis represented the defendant, who suffered more serious injuries during the incident than the complainant. Experts had advised on the cause of the defendant’s injuries and blood found on items at the scene.

R v Faris Uddin [2022] EWCA Crim 751 Simon Rippon successfully opposed the Crown’s application to increase Faris Uddin’s sentence, and  successfully argued for a change in the law concerning the lawfulness of suspending a sentence of imprisonment under the ’two strikes’ legislation. Westlaw has described the decision a ‘significant