Nicholas Rhodes KC

Cases

Serious Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Cases

He provides advice and guidance to commercial organisations, directors and professionals, in respect of professional regulators including the SRA and FCA
regulation under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the Conduct of
Business Rules of UK Financial Services.

He advises on criminal and regulatory liabilities arising in the governance of companies,
including bribery and corruption, accounting and money laundering regulations, asset
forfeiture and recovery and corporate manslaughter. He has experience of ‘blue bag’
disclosure relating to legally privileged documentation in the course of inquest and
investigation.

His practice includes advising on trade restrictions in restricted countries, Export
Control Orders and sanctions relating to arms dealing.

R v. K & Others (Southwark) – Carousel and VAT fraud.

R v. S & Others (Southwark) – VAT and accounting fraud.

R v. K (Southwark) – Politician accused of Fraud, Bribery and Corruption in
construction and planning.

R v. H & Others (Nottingham) – SFO prosecution of senior city solicitor in magic
circle firm for conspiracy to defraud, pervert the course of public justice and
perjury in relation to the conduct of commercial litigation.

R v. T & Others (Norwich) – TS/FCA/ BIS prosecution of serious fraud and regulatory offences relating to operation of telemarketing and insurance companies in UK and abroad.

R v. Daly & Others (Southwark) – SFO prosecution of identity frauds and boiler
room operations in Spain and Far-East.

R v. Brown (Leeds) – Private Investment and Personal Pensions Scheme fraud.

R v. G & Others (Sheffield) – Recycling, landfill and waste disposal fraud.

R v. Iqbal & Others (Leicester) – Serious fraud relating to the operation of HMG Individual learner Account Scheme and Higher Education funding.

R v. G & Others (Southwark) – Operation Callaghan Identity fraud and MNO Gateway fraud, involving the use of stolen identity and credit details applied to SIMM cards adapted for use to obtain airtime in MNO Gateway devices.

R v. T & Others (Croydon) Op Octopod – Land-banking and Collective Investment Scheme fraud.

IPR Capital – Alleged fraudulent operation of investment scheme involving International Mining.

Homicide Cases

R v. Akram (Sheffield) – Murder by deaf defendant w/in the Leicester deaf community. The entire trial conducted in sign language with the assistance of intermediaries.

R v. Anderson and Anderson (Reading) – Gangland/revenge knife-point murder in Newbury.

R v. Anstice (St Albans) – Murder of ex-wife. Trial issues included issues of mental health.

R v. Connors (Sheffield) – Revenge/murder after uninvited attendance at a house party.

R v. Cross and Others (Chelmsford) – Murder following false imprisonment, torture, beating and abandonment of a body.

R v. Dale (Oxford) – Murder, torture and mutilation of a woman lured to a caravan park. The trial included issues of mental health.

R v. Felisi (St Albans) – Murder and mutilation of a work colleague.

R v. G (Sheffield) – Murder in the course of homophobic attack.

R v. Hinkler (Sheffield) – ‘One punch’ murder by amateur boxer in gang fight outside nightclub.

R v. I (Birmingham) – Murder of woman in a frenzied knife attack.

R v. L (Sheffield) – Manslaughter of husband from single blow

R v. Mehmood (Sheffield) – Murder following the ritualised killing of a work colleague at Halal Abattoir.

R v. M and others (Sheffield) – Gangland murder within the Somali community by 13-year-old youth using sawn-off shotgun and others variously armed.

R v. Nelson (Birmingham) – Murder following torture of victim by beating, stabbing, asphyxiating and finally burning to death.

R v. O (Central Criminal Court)– Allegations of murder and unlawful act manslaughter in London street.

R v. Siddique (Central Criminal Court) – Unprovoked murder with a knife in street of a stranger.

R v. Taylor (Birmingham) – Gangland murder following ambush outside a nightclub in Birmingham City Centre

R v. Vincent & others (Luton) – OCG commissioned murder of major gangland figure by ‘underworld enforcer’ using an AK47.

R v. W and others (Central Criminal Court) – Conspiracy to murder arising from falling out within international drug smuggling OCG.

R v. Wainwright (Teeside) – Unprovoked murder of work colleague.

R v. W and others (Sheffield) – OCG ambush and murder of criminal opponent using a firearm.

R v. Ebanks and others (Grand Cayman)– Murder of security guard in the course of robbery of the National Bank.

R v. Robinson (Grand Cayman) – Gangland revenge murder in Grand Cayman

Serious Sexual Offences Cases

R v. A (Snaresbrook) – Campaign of rape and sexual attacks upon 6 women on
different occasions.

R v. M (Kingston) – Historic sexual abuse of boy and girl

R v. W (Liverpool) – Historic sexual abuse and grooming of numerous girls

R v. H (Guildford) – Rape of victim suffering severe learning difficulties by
professional carer.

OCG Abduction, Kidnapping and Serious Drug Offences Cases

R v. Chrouch (Maidstone) – Gangland Kidnapping and torture with firearms

R v. Pewter (Wood Green) – Child abduction for sexual purposes

R v. Young and others (Blackfriars) – Gangland kidnapping and firearms.

R v. Hukum Dad (Southwark) – Northern Cyprus heroin smuggling ring

R v. O’Neill (Leicester) – National OCG drugs importation and distribution ring

International

He works with the Horizon Institute (SL) and Department for International Development (UK), he also advises the Chief Justice, Minister of Justice and Government of the Republic of Somaliland in respect of judicial training and the reform of the justice system and facilities within that country.

He has also advised clients and appeared in a number of cases in Grand Cayman.

Other Notable/Reported Cases

R v. Fields, Sanghani, Sagoo and Rajput (Court of Appeal) 2014 – Review of the
authorities on confiscation and determining the proper approach to calculating
the amount of a confiscation order and apportionment.

Phipps v. DPP Jamaica and Attorney General Jamaica (Privy Council) 2012 –
Identification evidence and techniques, contamination and other procedural
irregularities arising from the trial of a major Jamaican gangland figure.

R v. Ebanks and others (Caribbean Court of Appeal) – FS issues relating to
gunshot residue, fragmentation and provenance and probity of SOC conclusions.

In Re Henry Hicks – Coroners Inquest into the death of a youth killed riding a
moped in the course of a police chase in which the unauthorised conduct of
police officers was a major contributing factor.