Notable Cases

Sonn Macmillan Walker secured the full recognition of a client’s UK remand time in complex cross‑border extradition proceedings, ensuring it was properly deducted from his Romanian sentence and enabling his eligibility for parole.

We represented a defendant in a major North Wales drug conspiracy case, securing bail and ultimately a suspended sentence despite serious Class A and B drug allegations.

SMW acted for a client accused of murder in Albania. The High Court overturned a decision to order extradition, stating extradition was unlawful and allowed the judicial review, quashing the Secretary of State's extradition orders due to fundamental defects in the extradition request.

Our client pleaded guilty on a basis to fraud by abuse of position and received a suspended sentence for an offence that had a starting point of three years imprisonment.

Our client had been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH), assault by beating and criminal damage. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and after a five-day trial at Guildford Crown Court, the jury took under two hours to return unanimous not guilty verdicts on all three counts.

In the UK’s first-ever prosecution involving a domestic cocaine extraction laboratory, our client was the only defendant to have a "lesser role" basis of plea accepted by the court.

Despite serious allegations of aggravated burglary involving a vulnerable victim, the prosecution offered no evidence after the defence highlighted evidentiary gaps and CCTV footage that contradicted the complainant’s account in a bail application.

Our client faced allegations of conspiring to defraud two Swiss gold‑commodity trading companies of $1.5 million, which he consistently denied, maintaining he had been misled by two sophisticated fraudsters charged alongside him. Through a robust defence strategy, the legal team demonstrated evidence undermining the prosecution’s case, leading the prosecution to offer no evidence before trial and leaving the client fully vindicated.

Our client faced multiple assault and sexual offence charges and was unanimously acquitted by demonstrating significant inconsistencies in the prosecution case.

Suspended sentence obtained after lesser plea accepted in arson with Intent to endanger life case.

Supply of Class A allegation dropped after representations.

Our 17-year-old client, with no previous convictions, was charged with driving without insurance after his temporary cover expired the day before he was stopped. Following detailed representations to the CPS, the charge was discontinued.