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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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| Nigel Lambert QC |
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CALLED 1974 Gray’s Inn
1999 Queen’s Counsel
2003 Bencher Gray’s Inn
1986 ad eundem member Inner Temple
Recommended by the "Legal 500"
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APPOINTMENTS
1992 Assistant Recorder
1996 Recorder
2004-2009 Deputy Head of Chambers
2009 Head of Chambers
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Criminal Defence: in particular serious fraud; large scale commercial and VAT (carousel) fraud; homicide and offences of violence; sexual offences and child sexual abuse; drug trafficking offences; money laundering; offences involving the use of firearms; insider dealing; international crime; human rights (criminal) and Courts Martial. Has had a considerable number of serious cases stayed as an abuse of the process. Has particular expertise representing young and/or vulnerable offenders in cases when there are young witnesses.
NOTABLE CASES
FRAUD CASES OF SPECIAL NOTE
R v Wragg - Wolverhampton CC
£20m loss to Revenue & Customs - VAT
"Carousel" Fraud - (mobile telephones). Trial spanned a period of over a year.
R v Simpson - Guildford CC
£6.5m loss to Revenue & Customs - VAT successfully defended.
"Carousel" Fraud - (computer chips). Following legal submissions re Revenue & Customs' failure to disclose evidence - the Crown Offered No Evidence.
R v. Lombardi - Southwark CC.
Year long trial - international banking fraud - successfully defended
(Court of Appeal 9.6.2000).
R v. Chipping - Guildford CC.
Income Tax fraud re off-shore accounts (case went to House of Lords as Dimsey and Allen - Oct 1999.)
MONEY LAUNDERING
R-v-Xin Li – Southwark Crown Court
Money laundering conspiracy valued at over £7m – directly connected with the contravention of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994. DVD Factories were said to have been set up for use by an illegal Chinese immigrant workforce. [The largest seizure in Western Europe, to date, of counterfeit DVDs.]
R-v-Agidi – Southwark Crown Court
Allegations of corruption at the highest Political levels in Nigeria, concerning the proposed introduction of Identity Cards nationwide. Seven counts alleging the concealing or conversion of $3m – the proceeds of criminal conduct. Following a successful submission of No Case to Answer the Crown made one of its first, but unsuccessful, appeals against a CJA 2003 terminating ruling to the Court of Appeal.
R-v-Miller
– Worcester Crown Court
Money laundering – following the incorporation, marketing and trading of an investment company which targeted ex-patriot British citizens.
MURDER/MANSLAUGHTER
R vs. H**** L**** (July 2010) - Central Criminal Court.
Represented
one of 2 defendants aged 15, arising out of a 'happy-slapping' incident
outside a Mosque in Tooting on 31st August 2009. Originally indicted as
murder, the Crown accepted pleas to manslaughter on the first day of
the trial, the defendant recieved 3 years 6 months detention. The
incident attracted national media attention both at the time and has
done so subsequently. See www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10737347 for more information.
R-v-Omar Butt – CCC
Multi handed murder of two brothers in the street part of on going rivalry between South London groups. During the trial, after I pressed the Prosecution to investigate and interrogate the mobile phones of trial witnesses, it became clear the witnesses, before completing their evidence, had been in contact with interested third parties. This gave rise to a successful abuse of process argument. The Crown failed in their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the CJA 2003 terminating ruling. The success of this hearing has prompted appeals by Co-Defendants.
R-v-Usman Butt – CCC
Sixteen Defendants were charged with the murder of two brothers in a street fight in South London. Because of the number of Defendants involved the indictment was severed to make the trials more managable. I represented the main Defendant in Trial 2 and secured an acquittal following an abuse of process argument arising out of unlawful contact between prosecution witnesses and interested third parties. See Omar Butt (above). Those originally convicted in Trial 1 successfully appealed in the light of my submissions in Trial 2; but the Court of Appeal ordered that four Defendants from Trial 1 should be re-tried. I was then instructed to represent one of those four. After further admissibility arguments the shape of the Prosecution case had changed sufficiently to allow acceptable pleas to be offered.
R-v-L – CCC (Presently Instructed)
Representing a fifteen year old who, when aged fourteen and with other young boys, is alleged to have conspired gratuitously to cause grievous bodily harm to elderly Asian males in the street in Tooting and then in a random attack murdered another elderly Asian man nearby.
R-v-M – CCC
Murder by stabbing – following argument between rival groups of young males on the Lisson Green Estate. Defendant aged nineteen at relevant time.
R-v- Scrivener - CCC
Allegation of murder, with a scimitar and golf club in the Defendant’s front garden, following an argument over a football between the children of neighbours after a game of football in the street. Successfully defended.
R-v-Ramzan - Sheffield CC
Murder indictment stayed following successful abuse of process argument where the Crown sought to retain the anonymity of their main witnesses.
R-v – Irinel - CCC
Murder by three Romanian brothers who robbed, tortured, tied up and left for dead a male, lured from a public house and attacked in his own home.
R-v- Calero-Guevera CCC
Peruvian blind man, his daughter and son – charged with the murder of his brother in law following allegations of abuse committed by the brother in law. The killing was sound recorded on a mobile telephone. It was almost certainly the first time that the sound of an actual death, from beginning to end, was heard by a CCC jury. Successfully defended.
R-v-Kelly - CCC
Allegation of murder by male of his female partner jumping up in the middle of a meal and stabbing her with the steak knife, already in his hand. Successfully defended.
R-v-Hilton - CCC.
Murder by mistake attackers entered wrong premises and killed complete stranger. Issues of transferred malice. Successfully defended.
R-v-R - Stafford CC.
16 year old assassin pulled the trigger nine times in the drive-by shooting of a member of rival street gang.
R-v-N – CCC
Seventeen year old member of an East London Youth Club along with other members of the club was charged with the murder of an abusive drunk walking past the club premises. Successfully defended.
R-v-Fathers - Oxford Crown Court
Well publicised murder by initial torture followed by forcing victim into River Thames and beating him until he drowned. Successfully defended.
R-v-Alyas – Cardiff Crown Court
Nineteen year old man charged with the manslaughter of a seventy-six year old man. Successful defence – the victim was so drunk that he tripped and fell backwards striking his head on the pavement.
SERIOUS VIOLENCE
R-v-Lewington – Winchester CC
Allegations of historic sexual abuse covering a seven year period thirty years before indictment stayed as an abuse of process.
R-v-Thomson - Newcastle CC.
Munchausen by Proxy syndrome – cruelty to grandchild.
R-v-Ward - Courts Martial.
Osnabruck, Germany (First time a serving soldier had fired in hostility on members of his own regiment since World War II).
R-v-Davies - Bristol CC.
Samurai sword attack on five victims. Successfully defended.
R-v-Hungwe – Snaresbrook Crown Court
Armed Robbery of 10 Group 4 Security Vans.
R-v-Carlin - Liverpool CC.
Systematic torture of baby – leading to death.
OTHER RECENT CASES
R-v-Zorlu - Croydon CC.
Conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration of Kurdish immigrants from Turkey and Iraq to the United Kingdom. Represented a leading member of Europe’s largest ever people trafficking gang. The network having links to Turkish organised crime.
R-v-Dalgleish - Harrow CC.
Supplying heroin valued at £47m. – at time of trial, the largest ever such seizure made in the UK.
R-v-Boomer - Manchester CC.
Post Office armed robbery successful abuse of process argument – resulting in suspension of police officers.
R- v-Stephen - CCC.
Prison Officer alleged to have conspired in the escape from H.M.P. Wormwood Scrubs of a prisoner – a major drug supplier. Jury taken on a view of the prison. Successfully defended.
YOUNG OFFENDERS
[Other than above]
R-v-Tonkin - Guildford CC.
Autistic young offender with Aspergers Syndrome alleged to have raped two young victims. Successfully defended.
R-v-F - CCC.
Allegation – 13-15 year old boy raped his 6-8 year old half sister over a two year period.
R-v-R – Luton Crown Court
Fourteen year old school-girl, systematically bullied at school, charged with S.18 wounding upon her bully, a fellow pupil.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Last Chairman – North London Bar Mess
Last Chairman – South Eastern Circuit / Institute of Barristers’ Clerks Liaison Committee
Past Member – Executive Committee South Eastern Circuit
Member – South Eastern Circuit
Member – Bar Council 1993-2000
(Professional Standards Committee)
(Finance Committee)
(Legal Aid and Fees Committee)
Member - Criminal Bar Association (Committee 1993-2000)
Member – Justice
Past member – Disciplinary Tribunal of Bar Council
ADDITIONAL
Past Chairman Chambers Pupillage Committee
Gray’s Inn trained Advocacy teacher
Past lecturer in Professional Ethics – Council of Legal education
A Bar Council nominated advisor to other members of the profession on both ethics and Wasted Costs.
Occasional radio and television broadcaster.
A past consultee to the Department for Constitutional Affairs on applications for Judicial Appointments, Recordership and Queen’s Counsel.
LANGUAGE
Conversational French
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