Last week proved to be an excellent week for partner Miles Herman who successfully defended three clients in three separate cases.

Case 1

Miles represented a defendant at the Crown Court who had applied for the discharge of a Restraint Order imposed in 2011. Due to diligent work undertaken on behalf of the client, the Court agreed to discharge the Order and, in doing so, awarded costs.

Discharging a Restraint Order is a difficult task and the courts will only do so in the most limited (and rare) of situations. It takes skill, determination and tenacity. Our client was delighted.

Case 2

Miles also represented an individual facing charges of domestic violence which, had they resulted in conviction, would have had an immediate and disastrous impact on the individual’s career. The stakes were extremely high, and Miles and the instructed trial advocate, Adam Davis QC, worked tirelessly to secure the client’s acquittal following a hard-fought contested trial.

Our client paid privately in order to ensure the best representation and the Court awarded a Costs Order in his favour.

Case 3

Finally, Miles’s last success of this momentous week related to a case of a professional individual charged with theft from a person on the railway. Again this was an allegation that would have had a marked and immediate effect on his professional career.

At an early bail hearing Miles pointed out the weakness of the prosecution’s case and correctly identified that there was clearly a submission of no case to answer. The Court agreed with that submission and the defendant was found not guilty.

The client had paid privately and a costs order was awarded in his favour.