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Biography
A defence specialist, currently seconded to Mourant - a leading off shore litigation firm - in the Cayman Islands. Practice includes fraud and financial crime, drug trafficking, sexual offences, murder and serious violent crime involving firearms; in the Grand Court and before the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. Further practice areas include civil litigation and private prosecutions against the police.

Cases

Recent cases in the Cayman Islands of particular note:

R v Clarissa Zeylaya de Acosta CICA 20/05 - Court of Appeal upheld a successful appeal against conviction for cocaine importation where 14 years had originally been imposed (sole counsel)

R v Horace Anthony Reid CICA 4/05 - Court of Appeal upheld a successful appeal against conviction for possession with intent to supply cocaine where 8 years had orginally been imposed (sole counsel)

R v Christopher Miller and others IND 47/04 - High profile aggravated burglary of firearms, in which the incriminating interview was ruled inadmissable following voire dire on police oppression - client acquitted (sole counsel).

R v Haughton 2005 Rape with firearm. Defendant discharged

R v Spence IND 43/06 - printing counterfeit currency

R v Luis Castillo IND 40/06 CICA 34/06 (Court of Appeal) -fraud and breach of trust by bank employee

R v Bjorn Connery Ebanks IND 46/06 - High profile armed robbery of the Cayman National Bank. Use of M16 assault gun and automatics. Security guard shot in course of raid. Crown elected not to proceed further upon successful application for disclosure of the identity of the informant (junior counsel, led by Nicholas Rhodes).

Reported Case:

Campbell Brown and Burton v R 2004/05 CILR Note 30, private prosecution of police officers.