International

Tanzanian Genocide trials

East Timor United Nations prosecutions

Bosnia and Herzegovina war crimes chamber

Special Court for Sierra Leone

Joint Congolese NGO report to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Inquiries

Bichard Inquiry – public inquiry into the Soham murders.

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry – public inquiry

Hillsborough Inquiry – football tragedy

M3 Twyford Down highway enquiry

Immigration

R(Limbuela) v SSHD  House of Lords. Leading authority on Article 3 ECHR “treatment”. Successful challenge to Government policy rendering asylum seekers homeless and destitute

Januzi and others v SSHD. House of Lords. Internal relocation alternative.
Hoxha and B v SSHD. House of Lords. Past persecution and the Refugee Convention

Ekinci v SSHD. Court of Appeal  – Whether ability to make an entry clearance application from overseas is relevant to Article 8 ECHR

Dyli v SSHD Status of international protection in Kosovo
R v SSHD ex p Faulkner– unlawful detention and removal

Shkembi v SSHD – held that comments made by the then SSHD, Mr Blunkett, on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Start the Week’ concerning an amnesty for asylum-seeking families could be considered to be a ‘gloss’ on that policy whereby a family who didn’t fall within the precise terms of the policy might nonetheless succeed under Article 8

R (Santia Yogathas and Sritharan Thangarasa) v SSHD - Immigration/ Human Rights/ Dublin Convention/ safety of Germany with regard to Tamil asylum seekers returned from United Kingdom/ issuing of a certificate under section 72(2)(a) Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

AN (Only loser can appeal) Afghanistan - Immigration/ Asylum/ Meaning of "determination" and "decision"

SK & Others – immigration - Risk on return to Croatia for ethnic Serbs

R (on the application of Maheshwaran) –v- Secretary of State for the Home Department - a leading authority on breach of natural justice.
Secretary of State for the Home Department –v- Sakithivel Sachithanathan immigration - return to particular region of feared country.

AC (Witness with refugee status, effect Somalia)

R (Gloszczuk) –v- Secretary of State for the Home Department illegal entrant establishing himself in business

Crime

R v Driza: Blackmail of immigration judges

R v Rahman: Terrorist plot to buy missiles to shoot down airliners.

R v Williams and others – shooting of Marion Bates, Nottingham jeweller

R v Wendolyn Markcrow – manslaughter of Downs Syndrome son

R v Hudson and others – Newstead Abbey murder

R v Speechley – first televised Court of Appeal hearing – jury’s right to acquit / misconduct in public office

R v P (Prosecutor's Appeal) - first appeal under CJA 2003 prosecutor's appeal provisions/ framing indictments in sexual offences

R v Topasna - death by dangerous bus driving where five pedestrians were killed

R v Guo Long Chen – people smuggling and money laundering

R v Sanchez – defence of top US serviceman for attempted murder

R v Samuel – murder by shooting - foreign confessions under alleged torture

R v Dudley – motor manslaughter of two on duty police officers

R v S – cruelty by mother to her 4 children one of whom was paraplegic

R v Cliffe, Amos, Garside and Simons Construction Limited - Health and Safety offences following industrial deaths

R v Z (H of L) - Serial rapist/ admissibility of previous acquittals

R v RT and R v Durwayne Martin – questioning complainants in sexual cases

R v Maxine Robinson – Mother tried for death of 3 babies

R v Lucy – baby shaking

R v Allen – shooting by farmer

R v Wright – mutilation

R v Sara Thornton – killing by battered wife

R v Afford - “Watford Train Crash”.

R v Ellis – Northampton racecourse murder

R -v- Hubbard - on duty Police Officer prosecuted for careless driving causing death.

R v Ian Lavene. DNA and disclosure appeals.

R v Goodman and Heskey – Interception of communications and RIPA
“Operation Taming” - visa scam, with overseas visa applicants being registered as students on bogus courses

R v Roberts - Mute of malice

Fraud / Money Laundering

Britannia Park

R v Vass and others: Operation Vehicle £ multi million VAT carousel fraud

R .v. Harkins and others – six figure commercial transport conspiracy to steal investigated by the then National Crime Squad

R v Pinchbeck and Oprey – Moat House hotel fraud

R v Henao - £ billion drugs and money laundering
Operation Lucky – unearthing the proceeds of crime

R v Issett – mortgage fraud

R v Emmett - investor fraud- longest trial in British legal history

R v Faulkner - business corruption and confiscation.

R v Wilkes - confiscation proceedings defining the meaning of “benefit” within the Proceeds of Crime legislation.

R v Connal - fraudulent trading – fake “MBNA” investment business

Drugs

Operation Hapton - multi handed drug supply conspiracy

Operation Hythe - multi-handed drug supply conspiracy;

Operation Antelope - drug production, money laundering and confiscation.

Operation Apex - cocaine “factory”

Operation Harrier – Six figure Drug Trafficking

Employment

Piscitelli v Zilli Fish Ltd - The first EAT case on raising an appeal under the statutory dismissal procedures

Commotion Limited v Rutty - first appeal case on the procedure and form of a statutory grievance and on the employers’ duty to consider an application for flexible working arrangements.

Dacas v Brook Street Bureau - Employment status of agency workers

Family

X v Bedfordshire – longest running and most complex public law case in the family division

Re P (Contact: Indirect Contact) - care proceedings in which mother alleged to be suffering from Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

Civil

British Boxing Board of Control arbitration - world boxing champion Dorothea Allen intestacy - probably the largest ever intestate estate

ISKCON v UK human rights application to the European Commission

Re A & D (Non-Accidental Injury) - Subdural Haematomas

M v Northamptonshire Health Authority - clinical negligence case on liability for the late diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome and Tourette Syndrome.

Apple Corps v Cooper - copyright dispute relating to The Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album

R (Commissioners of Customs & Excise)-v-Canterbury Crown Court International Cooperation