Nicholas Dixey

e: Nicholas.Dixey@charterchambers.com

Year of Call: 2002 LLB (Hons) Wales M. Phil (Cantab) Thomas More Bursary and Kennedy Award, Lincoln’s Inn

Specialist Areas: Homicide, Large Drugs Related Offences, Sexual Offences, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime

Nicholas Dixey is a defence specialist, currently seconded to Mourant - a leading off shore litigation firm - in the Cayman Islands. He practices in the Grand Court and before the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and his particular areas of expertise include:

Fraud and Financial Crime
Drug Trafficking
Sexual Offences
Murder
Serious Violent Crime Involving Firearms

Nicholas also has further practice areas of civil litigation and private prosecutions against the police.
 

Recent cases in the Cayman Islands of particular note:

DRUGS
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 originally been imposed. Sole counsel)

FRAUD & COUNTERFEITING
R v Spence (IND 43/06 – Printing counterfeit currency)
R v Luis Castillo – Court of Appeal (IND 40/06 CICA 34/06 – Fraud and breach of trust by bank employee)

OTHER
R v Christopher Miller and others (IND 47/04 – High profile aggravated burglary of firearms, in which the incriminating interview was ruled inadmissible following voire dire on police oppression – client acquitted. Sole counsel)
R v Haughton [2005] (Rape with firearm. Defendant discharged)
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)