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9 Carmelite Street
London EC4Y 0DR
Tel: 020 7936 6300
Fax: 020 7936 6301
Out of Hours Number:
07760 261 795
Email clerks team
LDE: 226
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| Pavlos Panayi |
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EDUCATION
LLB (Hons) Queen Mary College, London University
CALLED 1995 Gray's Inn |
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“defended very effectively in serious crime, including terrorism and honour killing."
Legal 500
PRACTICE
Noted in Legal 500 for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 for his work in high profile cases.
A defence advocate with substantial experience in conducting serious and complex cases. These include fraud; international money laundering and revenue offences.
Growing practice in recent years in high-profile terrorist cases.
Has acted in some of the most important cases in recent years. This work includes the 21/7 Bombings case and the Banaz Mahmod honour killing trial. Wide experience as a defence advocate in organised crime prosecutions and cases involving the use of informants and covert surveillance.
Has a long and successful record in defending Murder trials. Notable experience in cases of a technical nature involving advanced computer evidence and cell-site analysis.
In the appellate field, has a strong record of success in challenging convictions and sentences in difficult appeals and is often instructed to review the safety of a conviction after the dismissal of the original team of trial advocates.
Elected member of the Bar Council; member of the Criminal Bar Association Committee and contributes to the work of numerous Bar Council subcommittees.
Current instructions include acting for main defendant in an allegation of importation of 1.5 tonnes of pure cocaine. Case involves complex international jurisdictional issues; the street value of the drugs has been estimated by the prosecution as £2 billion. Likely to be the largest and most serious case of its kind ever prosecuted in the UK.
NOTABLE CASES
Financial Crime
R v C
Huge MTIC fraud involving over £100 million in lost revenue. Unusual case in that the defendants were all allegedly missing traders, who did not in fact go missing and were each prosecuted after a 4 year HMRC investigation; Croydon CC.
R v. F.
International money laundering case involving the dispersal of £100 million by in a series of transactions between Directors of various Bureau de Change and a group or first tier organised criminals; case widely reported in the media; Woolwich CC.
R v. Quinn and others.
£16 million fraud and consequent international money laundering on Royal Bank of Scotland plc; Southwark CC.
R v. Ryan and others.
Multi-million pound MTIC fraud involving computer chip carousel in EIRE and UK; Kingston CC.
Leading work
R v Jafari
Led for the defence in the Harmondsworth Detention Centre Riot case; Case involved 19 defendants who were the ringleaders in a riot which followed the death of an inmate in custody. Croydon CC.
R v. Spring.
Led for the defence in 2 months HMRC duty evasion trial resulting from huge NCIS investigation; Maidstone CC.
Terrorism
R v. AG.
Prosecution of alleged principal Al Qaeda banker for Terrorism offences.
R v. Girma.
21/7 bombings trial. Represented the wife of 21/7 Shepherds Bush bomber for her alleged role in assisting her husband in the preparation and aftermath of the London bombings attacks. Trial lasted 4 months and involved expert evidence in Islamic studies and alleged extremism. Case required analysis and mastery of a vast amount of cell-site evidence and computer material; Central Criminal Court.
Secretary of State v. AJ.
Acted successfully in challenging the lawfulness of a Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Control Order in the Administrative Court.
Other serious work
R v. Mahmod.
Kurdish honour killing case, termed the ‘body in the suitcase’ murder after deceased found concealed in a bag and buried under the foundations of a house in the Midlands. The trial was widely reported and became a cause celebre for the victims of ‘honour’ crimes when the deceased’s boyfriend and sister gave evidence against her uncle. Heavy use of cell-site evidence and RIPA recordings during the 4 months trial; Central Criminal Court.
R v Singer
Murder of a mother and attempted murder of her 18 months old child by beating, poisoning and arson. Defendant was the deceased's former partner and father of the child. Case attracted widespread publicity throughout the investigation and trial; Central Criminal Court.
R v Terry Smith
3 months trial in 2009 and 2 months retrial in 2010 of conspiracy to commit armed robberies. Defendant was a published author and television broadcaster and a former most wanted man in Britain, alleged to have committed a string of daring robberies of security vans. Case involved the attempted murder, by shooting, of a member of the public who intervened in one of the robberies. Lengthy police investigation and both subsequent trials received widespread national publicity.
R v. Ringland.
Hi-tech Crime Unit investigation into computer manipulation and sexual blackmail of young women in the UK and overseas. dubbed the ‘internet rapist’ by the tabloid press. Cutting edge technical expertise used in the computer analysis. Case described by the investigation team in press briefings as the most sophisticated use of computers by a criminal that they had ever experienced; Inner London CC.
R v. Tye & Others.
2 months trial into the ‘honey-trap’ conspiracy to murder at the Central Criminal Court.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Elected member of Bar Council of England and Wales, 2007-2010
Criminal Bar Association, Committee member, 2007-2010
Member of Bar Conference Organising Board, 2004 & 2005
Member of Young Bar Committee of Bar Council, 2003 & 2004
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Greek.
INTERESTS
Scuba-diving, Travel, Backgammon.
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