Michael Lavers
Year of Call: 1989 BA (Sussex)
BiographyAn analytical and meticulous criminal practitioner with a broad experience of cases focused on the fields of:
Drugs
Extortion
Blackmail
CasesR v Etem Gezen (Junior Counsel – Mafia-style criminal organisation, known as the Baybasin Cartel, which had expanded from drug trafficking to extortion and protection rackets in North London's Turkish/Kurdish community. Although the gang’s activities covered a wide range of criminal activities, their principal business was blackmail and this formed the subject matter of the main indictment)
R v O'Neill & Orrs (Leading Junior – Conspiracy to supply crack cocaine. Prosecution a result of three separate police operations)