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Education

BA Hons. (Politics) University of Leeds
CPE City University
BVC Inns of Court School of Law
Awarded Middle Temple Benefactors Scholarship for BVC

Practice

Matthew is a dedicated and conscientious advocate. He is instructed in all areas of crime from the most serious violent crime including murder and rape to high value confiscation proceedings associated with the proceeds of crime and large scale fraud. He is instructed privately and as a led Junior and junior alone. He undertakes appellate work and advises in judicial review proceedings.

Matthew Radstone is associated with the following areas of expertise:

Crime
Extradition & Mutual Legal Assistance
Prison Law
Terrorism
White Collar Crime

Cases

Fraud and Financial Regulation

  • R v Lewis – Led Junior – Multi-million pound mortgage fraud - Client was a mortgage broker charged with others including a solicitor. Very complex case involving the use of complicated same day bridging loans, inflated property valuations and deliberate defaults on mortgage repayments.
  • R v Black – Money laundering – defendant was a 22 year old single mother of good character. Police found £250,000 cash in her airing cupboard.
  • R v Lajad – Large scale fraudster involved in widespread fraudulent activity including mortgage fraud, benefit fraud and money laundering.

Proceeds of Crime

  • R v Elkhouly – Crown sought a benefit figure of approx £1million. Proceedings arose from credit card and bank account fraud. Available amount determined to be £32k. Over 50 banks accounts were involved in the case which required tracing hundreds of fraudulent transactions through numerous bank accounts.
  • R v Jones – Crown sought an available amount of over £70k allegedly received from the handling stolen high value sports cars.
  • R v Long – POCA proceedings arising from the benefit earned as a result of supplying class A drugs to inmates in Peterborough Prison.

 Extradition

  • R v Halligen – Extradition sought by the US government as a result of multi-million pound fraud linked to the Dutch company ‘Trafigura’, the directors of which were purportedly responsible for the spillage of large-scale toxic waste on to the coast line of the Ivory Coast. Case attracted large scale press coverage as the defendant had previously been employed by ‘the McCann family’ to assist with the search of Madeleine McCann.
  • R v Jasinsky – Extradition sought by the Polish government in relation to matters of violence and burglary dating back over ten years.

Judicial Review

  • R v Bird – Judicial review sought of the decision of the Parole Board and Home Secretary to revoke the appellant’s licence on an unreasonable and unlawful basis.
  • R v Simmons – Appellant was a ‘lifer’ having been convicted of murder in 1977. He had spent over 30 years in prison. Judicial review sought of the most recent decision of the Parole Board to refuse parole.

 Terrorism

  • R v Kanyare – Sat behind Jeremy Dein QC and Arlette Piercy as a paralegal (prior to pupillage) during a 3 month terrorism trial in which it was alleged that the defendant’s had sought to obtain a radioactive chemical ‘red mercury’ for use in explosives. Case attracted much attention as it centred on the undercover surveillance/journalism by the well known journalist Maz Mahmood aka ‘The Feikh Sheikh’.

Court of Appeal

  • R v Slater [2010] EWCA Crim153- ‘Fresh evidence’ appeal on behalf of an appellant convicted of several counts of rape and sexual assault.
  • R v G [2010] EWCA Crim 469 – Appellant was 16 years old and severely autistic. Sentence for dwelling burglaries halved by the Full Court.
  • R v Samuels [2009] EWCA Crim 1894 – Consecutive sentences deemed to be excessive in relation to repeated offences of commercial burglary.
  • R v Rossi [2009] EWCA Crim 2406 – Appellant was an 84 year old man convicted of voyeurism and sexual activity in the presence of young children in the toilets at St Pauls Cathedral. Appeal related to the question of whether a juror who was a doctor and medical expert on an unusual medical area at the heart of the defence namely the need to repeatedly urinate, had contaminated the jury with his own knowledge and expertise.

Crime

  • R v Ayres – Led junior: Murder – Defendant was a 14 year old boy charged alongside 3 other youths with stamping a homeless ‘Big Issue Seller’ to death in the middle of the night outside Marks and Spencer in Bournemouth.
  • R v Thomas - Led Junior: Rape- Defendant charged with series of rapes from 2005 and 2006. Convicted at first trial. Conviction quashed by CoA. Instructed for second trial during which eight counts were struck out as an abuse of process. Defendant was acquitted of remaining counts.
  • R v Wilson - Led Junior: Multi-handed conspiracy to rob. Case centred on mobile phone cell site analysis.
  • R v Williams – Led Junior: Conspiracy to Supply - Instructed privately to advise on merits of an appeal against conviction. Case centred on ‘supergrass evidence’ from other drugs users. Appellant said to have been one of the largest drug dealers in Northern England.
  • R v Gittens - Prison officer charged with theft and misconduct in public office at Brixton Prison. Defendant said to have smuggled mobile phones into the prison and then communicated with prisoners while on the outside.
  • R v Brooks – Multi-handed s.18 and violent disorder stemming from a fight outside Charlie Chan’s nightclub in Walthamstow in which a bouncer suffered brain damage. Following an appeal on crime watch these defendants’ were named some four years after the event.
  • R v Long - S.18 wounding – Defendant stabbed a nine year old boy in the thigh with a pen-knife in the living room of his house.
  • R v Briggs – S.18 GBH- Defendant alleged to have enticed the complainant to a night-time meeting using a social networking site whereupon the complainant was allegedly struck repeatedly over the head with a monkey-wrench.
  • R v Canham – ABH - Defendant alleged to have burnt the neck of the female complainant with a blow torch. Acquitted of all counts.
  • R v Butt – multi-handed street robbery. Tried in the Old Bailey.
  • R v Johson – Possession with intent to supply class A. 80 grams of cocaine together with £9k cash found in the defendant’s home.
  • R v Graham – Aggravated burglary arising from a drug debt. Defendant charged along with brother. Alleged to have attended the complainant’s home with baseball bats and screw drivers. Acquitted of all counts.
  • R v Newmark – defendant former ‘Big Brother’ contestant charged with public order offences at a well know London restaurant.

Professional Memberships

  • Human Rights Lawyers Association
  • Criminal Bar Association
  • Extradition Lawyers Association
  • Member & Committee's representative of the North London Bar Mess
  • Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA)
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)
  • United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA) 
  • Young Fraud Lawyers Association (YFLA)

Contact

T. 020 7067 1500

E. mradstone@25bedfordrow.com