Notable Cases

Imprisonment avoided in causing serious injury by dangerous driving case

Katie Lobo represented a 21-year-old client of good character, successfully negotiated an out-of-court community resolution for fraud and handling stolen goods following a police interview and prepared statement. The client avoided likely proceedingsand the risk of having a dishonesty conviction

Katie Lobo represented a young vulnerable client who successfully avoided an immediate custodial term, instead being provided with professional mental health support in the community.

We represented a client charged with assisting an offender in a murder linked to a drug-related retaliation killing, who was ultimately acquitted on both counts and avoided a custodial sentence.

Our client was found naked in the streets of London in the early hours of the morning. The prosecution offered no evidence and our client was found not guilty after we wrote a letter of representations to the CPS.

Our client, a young man with a speech and language disorder and autism, was acquitted of two counts of assault after trial, demonstrating reasonable self-defence.

We successfully represented a vulnerable 18-year-old charged with multiple serious drug offences, securing a positive NRM decision and expert evidence that led the CPS to discontinue all charges.

SMW successfully defended a distinguished aesthetic doctor accused of sexual assault, securing a jury acquittal at Isleworth Crown Court following detailed analysis of the evidence.

SMW was appointed to cross-examine witnesses at trial for a pregnant client of good character charged with two assaults by beating and racially aggravated threatening behaviour, arising from an incident in which she was surrounded by five men and prevented from leaving a shop after politely requesting use of a toilet. At Stratford Magistrates’ Court, self-defence was successfully argued and the client was found not guilty on all charges.

SMW secured a highly favourable suspended sentence for a young man facing serious drug offences by demonstrating his limited, directed role and advancing robust mitigation, avoiding immediate custody.

SMW secured a highly favourable five-year sentence for a young client in a serious Class A drug case, so mitigated that the CPS considered appealing for being unduly lenient.

The magistrates’ court stayed proceedings as an abuse of process after Hackney Council brought a second prosecution despite having given unequivocal assurances in 2011 that enforcement action would be closed.