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Date: 23/04/2015 |
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Below are some of the cases where clients have come to Raj because of her reputation as a fighter:
Fraud
R v JP (2012) -Operation Galician - Southwark Crown Court
Represented the first defendant in a seven handed prosecution arising out of a joint operation between the Metropolitan, Hong Kong and Amsterdam Police. It is alleged our client, the founder of the ‘Confidential Access' website used this business to facilitate the sale of false identities. The defendants are alleged to have been providing a service to people who had exhausted credit facilities and equipping them with the materials needed to defraud others including passports, driving licences, bank statements, pay slips and other financial and identity documents. (Counsel instructed: Tim Moloney QC & James O'Keeffe)
R v AM (2012) - Operation Saturn - Southwark Crown Court
Represented the first defendant on the indictment in a major insider dealing case prosecuted by the FSA. It is alleged that this defendant, who had access to sensitive information through his work in a confidential print room of a major investment bank UBS, obtained confidential information and disseminated that information to his co-defendants using a variety of means. The co-defendants, it is alleged, then used the information provided to place bets, including potential mergers, through a number of different spread betting firms. (Counsel instructed: Jerome Lynch QC & Kuljeet Dobe). Link: http://m.thelawyer.com/1011710.article?mobilesite=enabled
R v SM (20 12) Southwark Crown Court
Representing a defendant who is charged with the organisation and facilitation of the export of stolen prestige motor cars and heavy plant machinery to the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. The stolen items were dispatched through legitimate shipping agents via sea cargo containers, usually shortly after the initial theft.
R v ZH (2012 ) Operation Blackout - Southwark Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was charged following an undercover surveillance operation by City of London Police in A joint operation with the United States law enforcements agencies on suspicion of facilitating one of the largest of imports of counterfeit Nike trainers ever seized in the UK causing a loss to the trademark holder of around £4 million. An ITV documentary on smuggling in the UK featured the case in an hour long episode. http://player.stv.tv/programmes/smugglers/
R v MM (2012 )- Harrow Crown Court
Represented a man charged with conspiring to defraud UKBA along with another. The client ran a consultacy firm and conspired with an Immigration Adviser to produce payslips and wage payments to support applications to the Home Office for Tier 1 visas.
Link: http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16202482
R v KM (2010) - Southwark Crown Court
Represented a defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud. It is alleged the defendants organised car accidents in order to make false claims from insurance companies.
R v WA (2009) - Basildon Crown Court
The case involved a number of males who would attend the homes of elderly or vulnerable persons dressed as police officers. They would deceive these people into giving details of their bank accounts.
R v WA (2008) - Maidstone crown Court
This case concerned two groups of Romany Travellers based essentially in Kent. They were under police surveillance in August 2006 in the Dover area and environs as being involved in large scale cross-channel smuggling of tobacco and narcotics as well as cash flight across the same territory, to facilitate successive smuggling operations.
R v I (2009) - Southwark Crown Court
Representing a solicitor charged with six others for mortgage fraud concerning a £19 million property deal.(Counsel instructed: Patrick Upward QC & Sten Reiz) ·
Drugs
R v DC Operation Replace (2012)- Winchester Crown Court
Representing a defendant charged with conspiracy to import Class A drugs into the United Kingdom from South America. The cross-border investigation was conducted by SOCA and involved the use of targeted, covert surveillance and probe evidence. (Counsel instructed: Courtenay Griffiths QC & Sean Hammond)
R v OO (2004) - Kingston Crown Court
This case concerned the activities of a predominantly Somalian Organised Crime Group in 2004. The Activities of the organisation involved the Supply of Class A Drugs and laundering the proceeds. The activities were supported and enforced through the supply and use of serious firearms. The organisation recruited a corrupt solicitor.(Counsel instructed: Michael Massih QC & Shahid Rashid).
Murder
R v LT (2012) - Warwick Crown Court.
Representing a 22 year old man indicted for joint enterprise murder. The offence allegedly took place during the robbery of the victim's van which contained a large number of mobile phones. The case involves complex issues of causation arising from treatment rendered to the victim.
R v ID (2012 )- Central Criminal Court
Representing a defendant charged with the murder of his friend after alcohol and drug abuse. The defendant was captured in CCTV striking the victim over the head with a bottle. The preparation of the defence case involved complex issues associated with the defence of diminished responsibility. The defence was complicated by the defendant's traumatic experience of witnessing the disintegration of his home state and being forced to flee to the UK as a refugee.
R v WA (2012) - Maidstone Crown Court
Representing a 22 year old man charged the manslaughter of his 4 month old son. The Crown alleges that the injuries sustained by the victim are indicative of a non-accidental head injury that can be characterised as "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (SBS). This is a controversial area of medical science as experts cannot agree whether the "triad" of injuries: subdural haematoma, retinal haemorrhage and encephalopathy are 100% diagnostic of SBS. This case has involved the instruction of experts from Canada and the US to cast doubt on this hypothesis; a subject which has debated at length in courts in the UK and the US. (Counsel instructed: Orlando Pownall QC & Maya Sikand)
R v MP (2011 ) - Woolwich Crown Court
Representing a man charged with the murder of a flatmate. The prosecution alleged that the defendant had gained the victim's confidence such that the former disclosed his bank account details to him. The allegations suggest that the defendant was stealing money from the victim's bank account and lost it all on line.(Counsel instructed: Courtenay Griffiths QC & Ravi Sukul) Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14424735
R v MC (2009) - Reading Crown Court
Representing a young 22 year old man who was indicted for the murder of his flat mate in Slough. A Sikh ceremonial sword was used to inflict over 100 injuries to the victim. It was described by pathologist Dr Fegan Earl "as some of the worse injuries I have ever seen". Case preparation involved making enquiries in foreign jurisdictions.(Counsel instructed: Jerome Lynch QC & Shahid Rashid)
R v BS (2008)- Maidstone Crown Court
Representing a defendant indicted for murder with three others. The conviction was overturned under the landmark ruling on joint enterprise R v A.B.C.D.(Counsel instructed: Jerome Lynch QC & Ravi Sukul)
R v CL (2008) - Central Criminal Court
Representing the girlfriend of the person charged with the contract killing of Charlie Butler which was captured on CCTV and broadcast on BBC "Crime watch". This high profile case collapsed in June 2008 due to witness anonymity concerns.(Counsel instructed: Stephen Leslie QC & Shahid Rashid)
R v HB (2005) - Central Criminal Court
Representing HB who was indicted with three others for the murder of his flat mate, whose body was dumped on Woolwich common. The case involved a cut-throat defence. Case preparation included the taking of witness statements in foreign jurisdictions. (Counsel instructed: Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC & Dominic Bell).
Blackmail
R v LB (2009) - Maidstone Crown Court
Representing a company director indicted with three others with conspiracy to blackmail. It was alleged that the defendant demanded £400,000 from the victim. It was said to be a business debt which the company failed to recover through adjudication.
Violence
Lt Gen KS Brar attack case - Serious violence
