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Education
BSc Hons (Hull) Management Sciences (sponsored by international company)
CPE Diploma in Law (Westminster University) (Drapers Trust and Clothworkers foundation scholarships)
Practice
Instructed as leading and junior counsel in criminal defence cases. Large scale fraud, drug importations, money laundering and substantial confiscation proceedings. Also numerous murder cases and other matters involving serious violence.
Nicola Howard is associated with the following areas of expertise:
Crime
General Fraud
Regulatory and Disciplinary
White Collar Crime
Cases
Fraud and Financial Regulation
- R v D - £80 m conspiracy to defraud and forge documents in relatino to a well know identity documentation web based organisation.
- R v AJ - International share revenue. O2 defrauded of over £4.5 million.
- R v SN - Graduate mortgage broker. Investigated and banned by the HBOS groups for numerous fraudulent applications.
- R v Cornwell - Multi-handed conspiracy to defraud.
- R v Holt - conspiracy to defraud and corruption at the DVLA
- R -v- Parrott - MTIC fraud which ran for seven years, abuse hearing linked to the Bond House decision.
- R v Fowler – Leading junior in conspiracy to defraud Department of Trade and Industry – stayed on abuse.
- R -v- Lawrence (reported) - this case dealt with intrusive surveillance and collateral intrusion in a VAT fraud. Due to the extensive length of the fraud case was governed by the Police Act and RIPA.
- R v York - Conspiracy to defraud the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- R -v- Betts - VAT fraud. This was one of the first cases to be paper free, using both live note and electronic presentation.
- R -v- Stapley (Bursar) - Fraud by the Head teacher (a nun) and the school bursar on the London Borough of Bromley. Over half a million pounds was stolen from the Roman Catholic School.
- R v Alamu - internet fraud on eBay.
Proceeds of Crime Act
- R -v- Kubilay - Confiscation proceedings following a nine month trial relating to the large scale importation of Class A drugs.
- R v Puvanendran - brought in as junior to do confiscation proceedings, benefit and realisable assets over £6 million
- R v Beller – solicitor charged with money laundering.
Crime
- R v Papworth - Leading junior in drug importation.
- R v Brown - Leading junior in conspiracy to rob
- R –v- Heathorn – Conspiracy to supply Firearms, Heroine and Cocaine to Undercover officers over a 2 year period
- R v Santharatnam – Conspiracy to Murder – Multi handed Tamil Murder.
- R v Duffell - child murder
- R v Bush – conspiracy to murder
- R v Manton - armed robberies – case subject to reference by the Attorney General
- R -v- Ross - Official Secrets Act case in which a journalist faced charges of corruption, having received confidential police documents relating to terrorism and celebrity crimes.
- R -v- Nazham (reported) - authority dealing with indications prior to Goodyear from the Court of Appeal.
- R -v- Huber - Fathers 4 Justice motorway demonstration on the Blackwall Tunnel.
Articles & Publications
Articles prepared for Counsel Magazine and Legal Week, Student Supplement (The Telegraph).
Associated Work
- Registered with Middle Temple as a Pupil Supervisor
- Chairman of the Young Barristers Committee for England and Wales (2003)
- Elected member of the Bar council
- Member of the Criminal Bar Association
- Speaker at the Commonwealth Law conference in Melbourne, Australia 2003
- Delegate at the American bar Conference 2003
- Speaker at the World Referral Bars conference in Capetown 2004
- Advised LSC on best practice protocol for VHCC 2007
Professional Memberships
- Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA)
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)
Directories
Recommended as a leader in crime and fraud in Chambers UK and The Legal 500
"wins increasing court backing due to her communicative client manner and her skill in swiftly amassing evidence"
"a tremendously impressive practitioner"
"extremely talented"
Contact
T. 020 7067 1500
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