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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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| Francesca Titus |
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EDUCATION
LLB (Hons)
CALLED 2003 Middle Temple
Blackstone Entrance Exhibitioner & Harmsworth Scholar. |
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PRACTICE
Exclusively defence practice. Experienced in
defending allegations of fraud, robbery, serious assault, drugs
offences and sexual assault.
Frequently instructed in cases where the defendant is vulnerable by virtue of their age, learning difficulties or mental illness.
NOTABLE CASES
R v A & Others, Croydon Crown Court
Acted as led Junior for the main defendant. This was a violent disorder involving forty men, many of whom were armed. A man died during the course of the violence.
R v A & Others, Kingston Crown Court
Led Junior in case concerning conspiracy to burgle, conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to handle stolen cars. Arrests followed a long running Surrey Police led undercover operation. The Crown’s case was that homes were targeted for valuable cars.
R v C, Snaresbrook Crown Court
Arson with reckless endangerment to life. Represented a defendant with learning difficulties who had a history of setting fires. Mr C set fire to a pharmacy in the early hours of the morning. Above the pharmacy were a row of occupied flats. Counsel successfully argued that Imprisonment for Public Protection was not appropriate.
R v B & Another, Guildford Crown Court
Junior Counsel for first defendant in £600,000 fraud. The defendant was said to be the mastermind of the fraud and also the ‘inside man’, as the fraud was committed against his former employer.
R v A & Others, Wood Green Crown Court
Junior Counsel for first defendant. Case involved an allegation of gang rape of a stranger. The complainant said that she was drugged, taken to a flat and assaulted. Defence of consent successfully run at trial.
R v C, Isleworth Crown Court & Court of Appeal
Mr C seriously sexually assaulted his own daughter who was aged 8 years. A sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection was passed in the Crown Court. Counsel successfully argued that an IPP was not the appropriate sentence. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal substituting a determinate sentence.
R v A & Others Kingston Crown Court
Instructed as Junior Counsel in this case involving an allegation of police corruption. The Crown alleged that drug dealers were being provided with information about on-going investigations by serving police officers. Crown forced to offer no evidence after defence submissions that there was insufficient evidence to allow the case to continue.
R v S & Others, Maidstone Crown Court
Instructed as Junior Counsel in this case involving a conspiracy to smuggle over four million cigarettes.
R v C, Southwark Crown Court & Aylesbury Crown Court
Female fraudster. Ms C produced an impressive, but false Curriculum Vitae and used it to obtain well paid employment at a highly regarded financial services company in the City. Once working at the company, without permission, she obtained credit facilities with various other businesses and used these accounts to purchase furniture and obtain services for her own benefit. The fraud ran to thousands of pounds. Ms C had committed numerous similar frauds in the past and served many terms of imprisonment. She had only been recently released from prison before committing the current offences. Counsel persuaded the Court to take an exceptional view and impose a suspended prison sentence.
R v R & Others, Reading Crown Court
Junior Counsel in a car ringing case. The Crown pursued confiscation proceedings against Mr R, who had sufficient assets to meet the benefit figure. Following submissions from the defence the Crown accepted that they could not continue the confiscation proceedings against this defendant.
R v A, Southwark Crown Court
Defendant was arrested in a bank trying to collect Euros that had been purchased using stolen debit card details. Police searched his home address and discovered a forged bankers draft for £35,000. The defendant claimed that he had been the innocent dupe of an internet fraud. He had been approached via the internet by a person claiming to be a very attractive lady. Over a series of emails and instant messages he had been persuaded to assist her by looking after the bankers draft and collecting the Euros. The jury accepted the existence of this person and that Mr A was not the mastermind behind the frauds.
R v A, Snaresbrook Crown Court
In the early hours of the morning the defendant entered the house of a stranger, disabled the fuse board and then entered the complainant’s bedroom. The complainant awoke when the defendant bit into her breast. Defendant charged under the Sexual Offences Act.
R v Youth & Others, Balham Youth Court
Acting alone representing the main defendant who was a 16 year old school boy charged with sexual offences. The third defendant was represented by Queen’s Counsel. The trial involved cross examination of a number of school girls who had witnessed the alleged behaviour. Defendant acquitted of all charges.
CURRENT CASES
R v Q, Southampton Crown Court (on going)
Led Junior. Allegation of large scale cannabis importation. The Prosecution claim that the drugs involved have a street value of over £13 million.
R v C, Harrow Crown Court (on going)
Defendant facing an allegation of s.18 GBH. The Crown alleges that the defendant broke a glass in the face of another customer in a public house.
R v Y, Crown Court (on going)
Allegation of child cruelty. The defendant is a single mother of three children. Police attended at the home address and found dog faeces and other waste in every room. The state of the property posed a hazard to health. The children were not appropriately dressed and there was a lack of food in the home. The allegation is that the mother has wilfully neglected her children.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• Member of Liberty.
• Supporter of anti-death penalty charity Reprieve.
• Completed an internship with the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO). IPNO represent indigent prisoners serving life sentences who have provable claims of innocence.
• Carmelite Chambers representative to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
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