Recent Cases

• R v R [Snaresbrook Crown Court] 2020

  Actual Bodily Harm & Two Assaults

  Agreed a basis of plea with the Crown on day one but this was dismissed by the learned Judge. Defendant was acquitted unanimously of all charges.

• R v B [Wood Geen Crown Court] 2019

  s.20 GBH Allegation

  Represented a doorman who faced a s.20 GBH allegation having pushed a customer to the floor and caused them to sufferserious bleed on the brain – hung jury.

• R v K [Lewes] 2019

  Stalking

  Sam Willis, led by Paul Walker, defended in this five-week trial involving allegations of stalking. The prosecution evidence consisted of 74,000 pages of Facebook extracts and computer downloads. The ability to analyse large quantities of digital evidence was crucial to the defence case - it led to a 40-page defence bundle being placed before the jury to provide context and balance to the 550-page prosecution bundles.

• R v. K [Snaresbrook] 2019

  Supply Drugs

  Sam Willis acted for this defendant accused of supplying cannabis. The case involved careful analysis of evidence served late by the prosecution, including a report by a drugs expert, mobile telephone downloads and forensic drug analysis.
   

• R v. L [Woolwich] 2019

  Theft

  Sam Willis was instructed in this two-day trial. The case involved alibi evidence, and required carefully-planned cross-examination of a Police Constable purporting to recognise the defendant from poor quality CCTV. During the first trial, the jury had to be discharged - the prosecution dropped the charges just before the re-trial was due to begin.

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