Notable Cases

Our client’s extradition was sought by the French authorities for an offence of people smuggling.

Our client was the first defendant of 24 whom we represented in a 6-month trial at Southwark Crown Court.

After a letter of representations, the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop their case against our client and issue a Football Banning Order instead.

After thorough cross-examination of the Prosecutions' expert, our client was unanimously acquitted by the jury.

Whilst our client's co-defendants received sentences between 9 to 15 years, our client was sentenced to 16 months and was released on license at his sentence hearing.

David Kitson was the leading barrister in a 4-month modern slavery trial at Southwark Crown Court.

After lengthy written representations to the prosecution, Trading Standards took the view that no evidence would offered against our client.

SMW successfully represent Ghanaian businessman, whose UK bank account was frozen, in having his account freezing order set aside.

Following significant mitigation regarding his mental health, our client received a suspended sentence in a serious case of supplying class B drugs.

Our client was found not guilty of transferring criminal property whilst working as a branch manager at Lloyds Bank after a 10-day trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Our client received a suspended sentence for two counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and possession of criminal property.

After a six-day trial, the jury unanimously found our client not guilty.