School - Prior Park College Bath
University - Manchester LL.B (Hons)
School of Law - Inns of Court
Called to the Bar - 1992 (Gray’s Inn)
Criminal Bar Association
Northern Circuit
Michael was called to the Bar in 1992 and has since developed a considerable practice at the Criminal Bar, taking silk in 2020.
Michael deals with all aspects of serious crime including homicide, sexual offences, large scale drugs conspiracies, fraud and firearms offences plus offences of violence.
R v SCOTT WATKINS (August 2018) Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester
– Case involving an uninsured driver who caused the death of one spectator of an unauthorised “Car Meet” event and the serious injury of 4 others. The defendant lost control whilst attempting to ‘drift’ a vehicle he was unfamilar with, mounted the pavement, stiking the spectators and fled the scene.
R v MATTHEW HANKINSON & OTHERS (July 2018) Central Criminal Court, London
– Counsel for the defence in a terrorist trial in which it was alleged the Defendant was a leading member of a proscribed organisation which was behind a plot to kill a serving MP & police officer.
R v I (2018)
Instructed to defend a youth charged with murder.
R v Y (2018)
Instructed to defend one of a large number of defendants charged with cash in transit robberies.
R v A (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a serving police officer charged with attempting to rape his wife, also a serving police officer.
R v N (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a man for the repeated rape of his wife over the course of a 20-year marriage.
R v H & others (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a multi-handed conspiracy to blackmail.
R v N (2017)
Instructed to prosecute an in-patient with mental health difficulties charged with sexually assaulting a number of nurses.
R v G & Others (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a multi-handed football violence case.
R v D & Others (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a multi-handed Class ‘A’ drugs conspiracy.
R v B (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a man charged with sexually assaulting members of his wife’s family by inserting, with their ostensible consent, hypodermic needles into their genitalia.
R v L & Others (2017)
Instructed to defend one of a number of defendants in a large conspiracy to supply class ‘A’ drugs.
R v D (2017)
Instructed to defend a man charged with historical repeated rape of a childhood friend, who had severe medical difficulties. A particularly challenging case.
R v I (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a man charged with attempted murder. The Defendant had severed the Complainant’s arm from his body.
R v M & Others (2017)
Instructed to prosecute a number of men charged with robbery of an elderly, wheel bound woman in her home during the course of which severe injuries were inflicted upon her.
R v D & Others (2017)
Instructed to defend a man, one of a number of members of the same family, charged with grooming and repeatedly raping 2 complainants who were 12 & 14 years of age.
R v D & Others-Operation Tungsten (2014-2017)
Instructed as Leading Junior to prosecute approximately 20 defendants in a series of trials in connection with a large number of overlapping drugs conspiracies. Ongoing.
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