Barry White

R v W (2017)
Attempted Murder: A man with a long and complex history of mental illness, who made a random knife attack on two men in a pub, and subsequently had a psychiatric breakdown, such that he remained unfit to plead up until just before the matter was listed for trial.

R v. T (2017)
Attempted Murder: A man of previous good character who, upon separating from his wife, made a failed attempt at murder-suicide.

R v. R (2017)
Section 18: co-defending alongside a silk: where the 2 Defendant’s were alleged to have struck the complainant with a hammer before biting a portion of his nose off. Each had similar previous convictions.

R v S (2017)
Allegations of non-recent familial sexual abuse for a man of good character, which necessitated applications for disclosure in the family court and the calling of many family witnesses.

R v. G (2017)
An allegation of acquaintance rape, where both complainant and defendant had borderline learning disabilities, necessitating a very gentle approach to both examination-in-chief and cross-examination.

R v. S (2017)
Allegations of sexual activity with a child, plus violence, arising out of a failed consensual relationship. Defendant with ADHD and paranoid personality disorder.

R v. P (2017)
Allegation of possession of a small amount of indecent images of children amongst over one million adult pronographic images. The issue being whether the Defendant had undertaken any deliberate or intentional acts which would have caused such indecent images to be in his possession. This necessitated expert evidence to resolve.

P v. S (2017-…)
Acting for the police in forfeiture proceedings, where the Respondent is found with over £100,000 cash in his house and has significant links to a substantial OCG.

R v. A (2016)
Converting Criminal Property: The Defendant was accused of being part, effectively, of a conspiracy, whereby his account was used to receive substantial amounts of cash from people from around the world who had been duped into thinking they we going to receive a large amount of cash from a crooked Nigerian lawyer.

R v. C (2017)
Confiscation proceedings arising out of regulatory offences for illegal money lending, where the benefit figure was close to £1,000,000.

R v. W (2017)
Complicated confiscation arising out of conspiracy to defraud dealing with issues of joint benefit, the effect of already compromised confiscation proceedings for co-defendants, the effect of appreciating then depreciating share values and how to properly calculate interest.

R v. W (2018)
Defending in a multi-handed heroin and crack conspiracy. Significant use of cell-site analysis, mobile phone and ANPR evidence.

R v. T (2018)
Defending “leading role” in a 500kg+ cannabis multi-handed conspiracy.

R v. C & Others (2018)
Defending multiple runners in “county lines” heroin and crack supply case. One of the Defendants subject to cuckooing.

R v. K (2016)
Causing Serious Injury by Dangerous Driving: A woman of previous good character who lost control of her car and crashed into a pregnant woman, causing her to miscarry, where it was alleged she was driving in an aggressive manner.

R v. P (2016)
Dangerous Driving: Defendant said to be driving so fast around a corner that tyres lost traction on the road. Defence expert evidence showed that, on a normal road surface, traction would not be lost until speeds greatly in excess of what the Defendant could have been doing.

HSE v. H (2017)
Defending. HSE offences relating to a park home redevelopment. Allegation that substantial failures during the course of the redevelopment led to real danger of death or personal injury to workers and those already living on site. Poor record of previous compliance. Opaque financial picture.

R v. C (2017)
Defending. Allegation that a car dealer was acting as a money lender without the necessary permissions and that he was committing sexual offences whilst doing so.

R v. C (2016)
Defending a care worker accused of neglecting a patient with significant disabilities who died whilst having a bath.

R v. B (2016)
Seeking release for a prisoner who was 5 years over tariff, had been raped whilst in custody and, as a result, had begun to self-harm in a very significant way.