Daniel Setter

Cases

Criminal Defence

R v NT – Allegation of assault with a hammer. The defendant’s conviction was overturned on appeal in the Crown Court.

R v KL – Allegations of breaching a non-molestation order in which the defendant was partially acquitted. The remaining convictions were quashed after the court was persuaded to order a retrial following irregularities in the decision-making process.

R v SP – A trial for dishonestly obtaining benefits, in which the defendant was acquitted following submissions on beneficial ownership of property and resulting trusts.

R v RP – An allegation of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control. The Crown had to offer no evidence following submissions on adjournments and hearsay evidence, preventing an application for a dog destruction order. The dog was returned to its owner, even though the defendant had failed to attend her own trial.

R v JB – Allegation of assaulting a police officer. The charge was dismissed following a successful submission of no case to answer based on the officer’s powers.

Operation Pottery – Assisted in the preparation of one of the largest modern slavery cases.

Daniel is also regularly appointed directly by the courts to represent the interests of litigants in person.

Criminal Prosecution

R v Boyle [2018] EWCA Crim 2035, [2019] 1 Cr App (S) 9 – Sentencing in a mandatory minimum sentence firearms case. Subsequently successful in the Court of Appeal, where the Court clarified the law on minimum sentences.

R v Islam and Others (Operation Chertsey) – disclosure junior for the Crown in a multi-handed, county lines drug murder case, lasting over three months. Led by Treasury Counsel.

R v JG – Sentence in which a hospital order was imposed along with a restriction order under the Mental Health Act 1983.

R v MF – Prosecuted an appeal from a youth court to the Crown Court against a conviction for GBH. Appeared alone against silk.

Regulatory Law

Daniel has been instructed to draft submissions for HMRC in respect of First-tier Tribunal tax matters.

In addition, Daniel is also retained on the Attorney General’s ‘Junior Junior’ panel.

Before coming to the Bar, Daniel spent time at a civil practice with particular emphasis on health and safety and occupational disease. He is therefore able to advise on a wide range of matters.