The firm has represented numerous people on murder trials. We have dealt with cases from the police station to the Court of Appeal. These cases often involve very lengthy and detailed police investigations. It takes an advanced level of experience and forensic skills to prepare such cases for trial and to represent suspects in the police station.

Some of our recent murder cases include the following:-

• We represented the main defendant in the highly publicised murder of the Chelsea banker, John Monckton, in his own home and the attempted murder of his wife. This was an extremely complex investigation involving a large number of documents.

• We represented the main defendant in a contract killing of a man then on bail for serious drugs offences in the Hastings area in 2003. The police investigation took 2 years before our client was charged with the offence. This was an extremely complex case again involving a huge amount of documentation.

• We represented a man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man in the flat of Count von Bismarck who fell from a balcony. Following police interviews and a detailed investigation our client was not charged with any offence.

• We represented a man charged with the murder of a well known literary agent who had been stabbed many times whilst tied up at his own flat. Our client was claiming manslaughter by way of diminished responsibility.

• We acted for a young Asian man who was charged with the murder of a young white male who had been attacked and stabbed by a group of Asian youths in East London following an attempted robbery on one of the group of Asian youths. This was a particularly difficult and racially sensitive case which led to the acquittal of our client.

• We represented a woman who was accused of murdering her husband with an axe She claimed diminished responsibility and her plea of guilty to manslaughter was ultimately accepted.

• We acted for a man who was tried on a re-trial at the Old Bailey for the random and unprovoked murder of a man on a bus in Vauxhall. Again the issue in this case was diminished responsibility.

• We acted for a young man accused of the fatal shooting of a man in Battersea following an altercation in the street. This is another highly complex investigation which produced a large amount of documentation and a lengthy trial before the case was dismissed after the close of the prosecution case.

• We acted for a man who was convicted of the murder of the baby of our client’s then partner. We made an application to the CCRC who referred the case back to the Court of Appeal. The issues related to the timing of death from forensic evidence. We had not been instructed at trial.

• We acted for a man who was charged with a conspiracy to murder a man in Liverpool by way of a proposed contract killing. The other defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail but our client was acquitted after a lengthy trial.

• We are currently acting for two men accused of stabbing a male in the chest in a nightclub. Again the police investigation has been extremely lengthy and the case will come to trial in mid 2008.

• We are currently acting for a young man accused of killing a 21 year old man after an altercation concerning a sweet wrapper being thrown into the deceased's car. This matter has recently been committed for trial as a manslaughter rather than murder following representations as to the nature of the charge. Our client will face a trial in 2008.