Gordon Carse

Practice Profile

Gordon is a specialist and successful trial advocate. He has extensive experience in serous and complex criminal cases, frequently acting as a leading junior.

Gordon accepts instructions on behalf of the defence and the Crown involving all forms of serious offending, but in particular cases of murder, manslaughter, serious violence, drugs, money laundering and serious sexual offences. Gordon is regularly instructed in complex multi-handed cases with voluminous papers requiring attention to detail and forensic analysis. Current instructions include an individual charged with a large-scale fraud, in which the defendant headed a conspiracy using client details he had mined when working for a well-known firm of Criminal Solicitors.

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Reported Cases

• R -v- JD [2021] EWCA Crim 1866 – Consecutive sentences; Determinate sentences; Licence periods
• R -v- TA [2016] EWCA Crim 668 – Admissibility; Attempts; Bad character; Gangs; Murder
• R -v- ML [2018] EWCA Crim 2536 – Mens rea; No case to answer; Prosecution appeals
• R -v- MA [2014] EWCA Crim 1382 - Breach; Sentence length; Sexual offences prevention orders
• R v AM [2013] EWCA Crim 850 - Disparity of sentence; Guilty pleas; Joint enterprise; Offending on bail; Robbery; Separate trials; Totality of sentence; Serious offences
• R -v- AH [2011] EWCA Crim 2227 - Burglary; Custodial sentences; Disqualification from driving; Disqualification periods; Proportionality; Rehabilitation - Interpretation and construction of s.147 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000.
• R -v- C; R -v- T [2010] EWCA Crim 761 - Post-verdict communication from jurors

News

• R v JL & Others [Newcastle] 2021

  National Supply of Wholesale Class A Drugs

  Gordon Carse represented the defendant who was alleged to have run cannabis farms and conspired in the national supply of wholesale quantities of Class A drugs. Following section 8 applications and written submissions that there was no case to answer, the Crown offered no further evidence and the Jury returned directed verdicts of not guilty.

• R v JB & Another [Inner London] 2020

  Possession of Firearm

  Gordon Carse represented the lead defendant in an allegation of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The defendant was a well known ‘drill’ artist and the prosecution was heavily reliant upon bad character evidence of gang activity (including multiple murders). The defendant was acquitted by the jury.

• R v CB & Others [Inner London] 2019

  Multi-Handed County Line Drug Operations

  Gordon Carse, led by Danny Robinson QC, prosecuted 21 individuals, over multiple trials, who were charged with a multiple county lines drug dealing operations. All defendants were either convicted or entered guilty pleas for their involvement.

• R v TDN & Others [Wood Green] 2018

  National Supply of Wholesale Class A Drugs

  Gordon Carse represented a defendant alleged to be the principal in the national supply of wholesale quantities of Class A drugs. The defendant was the subject of extensive covert surveillance, which included the use of helicopters. The defendant was acquitted by the jury.

• R v MW & Others [Liverpool] 2019

  Conspiracy to Supply Class A Drugs

  Gordon Carse represented one of the defendants charged with conspiring to supply wholescale amounts of Class A drugs (on one of the multiple occasions of supply in excess of 98kg of 98% pure cocaine was seized). In the third week of the trial the defendant entered a limited guilty plea on an acceptable basis.

• R v TM & another [CCC] 2018

  Robbery & kidnap

  Gordon Carse represented a defendant alleged to have committed robbery, s.18 and kidnapping. Following cross-examination of the principal witness, the Crown offered no further evidence and the jury returned a directed verdict of not guilty.

• R v ML [Croydon] 2018

  Stabbing of police officer

  Gordon Carse acted for the defendant who was alleged to committed a section 18 OAPA offence by stabbing an officer in an attempt to escape arrest. The photographs of the injury caused were ruled too gruesome to be placed before the jury.  A successful submission that there was no case to answer was appealed by the Crown. The appeal against the terminatory ruling was successfully opposed.

• R v. KB & anr [Woolwich] 2017

  Firearms

  Gordon Carse represented one of three defendants in a two week cut throat trial. The prosecution arose following an undercover sting operation where meetings and communications arranging the purchase of a glock, MP5 assault rifle, and ammunition were covertly recorded. The defendant was acquitted by the jury. Instructed by Thos Boyd Whyte.

   

• R v. Iqbal & ors [Harrow] 2017

  GBH Sc18

  Gordon Carse acted for the defendant who was alleged to be the principle in a group attack in which he chased and threw a young man from the roof of a building causing life-changing injuries. A submission of no case to answer was successfully made and the defendant acquitted following the successful resistance of the prosecution's appeal against the terminatory ruling. Instructed by Imran Khan & Partners.

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