Daniel Murray

Barrister

Daniel's main practice is concentrated on serious crime, frauds, regulatory proceedings and money laundering sometimes involving complex cross jurisdictional issues.

Expertise

Fraud
Serious Crime
Sports Disciplinary Proceedings
Regulatory disciplinary proceedings both for Registrants and Regulator
Proceeds of Crime

Daniel practises in all areas of Fraud and Serious Crime. He has acted as leading counsel defending a client charged with murder and in the largest counterfeit pharmaceutical case ever prosecuted in the UK. He has represented clients charged with other serious offences such drug importation, firearms possession, gang related violence and serious public order offences.

Daniel has considerable experience in regulatory proceedings. Having completed a 3 month placement at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, he is regularly instructed to present their cases. He has given lectures on aspects of presenting regulatory proceedings and alternative resolutions in that context. He frequently defends doctors in proceedings brought by the General Medical Council at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. He is fully conversant with the format and procedure of regulatory hearings including High Court matters. He also defends police officers in Disciplinary Tribunals.

Daniel is qualified for Public Access work.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association
British Association of Sport and the Law
Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
South Eastern Circuit

Education

LLB (Hons) (UCL)
Postgraduate Certificate in Sport and the Law (DeMontford)

Email: dmurray@25bedfordrow.com

Serious Violence & Gun Crime

R v MZ - Murder. Bradford Crown Court. Represented the first person to be extradited from Pakistan in over 11 years for a double murder
R v QZ - Murder, Birmingham Crown Court. Represented a defendant in a case which involved over 3 weeks of Public Interest immunity applications relating to potential evidence from a "supergrass".
R v AA - Conspiracy to Reactivate Firearms. Croydon Crown Court. Represented a man accused with operating a gun factory where decommissioned firearms including an AK-47 were reactivated and ammunition manufactured.
R v AM - Aylesbury Crown Court. Defended a man charged with biting an ear off.
R v LAB & Others - Murder and Violent Disorder. Central Criminal Court. Successfully defended the only defendant to be acquitted of all charges.
R v KS & Other - Murder. Central Criminal Court
R v CM & DR - Leading counsel in attempted murder of police officer. Kidnap at gunpoint. firearms and possession of high purity cocaine with intent to supply.
R v DM - Successfully defended a mentally disordered defendant charged with Murder.
R v JR - Successfully defended a man charged with possession of a firearms and exploding ammunition. Following submission of a legal argument the prosecution offered no evidence.
R v SK & others. Successfully defended a man at St Albans Crown Court charged with Perverting the course of justice: the destruction of a murder victim’s sports bag following his disappearance. In the midst of the trial, counsel personally traced a crucial defence witness to Taiwan and ensured a statement taken from him was put before the jury. Following a 7 week trial as Junior alone against a KC and Junior, the represented Defendant was the only defendant acquitted.
R v Flattery & others. Leading Junior defending a man accused of Murder and Violent Disorder: a gang-related fatal stabbing. Following a successful legal argument regarding the lack of sufficient disclosure, the prosecution offered no evidence on the murder charge against the defendant represented. The remaining violent disorder count was successfully defended.
R v Wickson. Represented a woman accused of biting a piece of cheek from her victim and then swallowing to deny the opportunity of it being grafted back in place. Resolved question of fitness to plea and fitness to stand trial. Successfully argued that she did not satisfy the statutory criteria for dangerousness and secured a determinate sentence.
R v Wynter - Kidnap and possession of firearm case whereby the defendant had kidnapped his father’s associate at gunpoint and abducted him in the boot of a car in response to his father putting out a contract for his son’s execution following the robbery of a drug consignment. The 18-year-old defendant had already been the subject of a five year sentence for previous firearms offences and was facing an indeterminate sentence.

Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime

R v AD - Represented defendant charge with conspiracy to supply 10 kilos of Class A drugs at 96% purity. Despite the cut throat nature of the defence against a privately instructed KC, the co defendant was convicted and AD was not.
R v AA - Large scale Class A drug conspiracy in excess of 10,000 pages of evidence.
R v CP- Large scale multi handed Class A drug supply conspiracy.
R v GL - Multi handed large scale(200kg) drug supply conspiracy.
R v GM - large scale Class A and Firearms importation of over 135kilos. Successfully secured only acquittal. Co-defendant received a sentence of 18 years.
R v EC - 11 month conspiracy to supply Class A case. 5,000 hours of surveillance. 11 defendants. This case involved huge documentation and analysis of CCTV and telephone evidence through Adobe software. Resulted in acquittal by jury.
R v BM - Represented the lead defendant charged with importation of 50kg of 90% purity cocaine against privately instructed KCs.

Sexual Offences

R v MM - Leading counsel historic rape of three generations of the same family. 37 count indictment over a 10 year period.
R v KA - Multi handed people trafficking allegation.
R v AA - Gang rape allegation in the context of London drug dealing gang exploiting and abusing 13 year old girl. Involved intense analysis of telephone evidence.
R v CM - Historic inter family rape allegation.
R v JK - Multiple allegations of sexual touching of 10 year old girl.
R v SA - Historic rape allegation on 10 year old step daughter.
R v HO - Successfully secured the acquittal of an international football player on 3 charges of Rape. His defence involved the collation of international evidence from Africa and the utilisation of the hearsay provisions concerning witnesses abroad. As a result of the prosecution the defendant had been unable to see his young children at all for a period of 2 years and only under supervision for a period of 6 months until he was found Not Guilty. He has now been reunited with them.
R v M A and others. Multiple rape and kidnapping, False imprisonment and child pornography case. Represented the first defendant of a 5 handed mass rape allegation involving members of the Asian community at a time when these types of offences were highly topical, controversial and the subject of much newspaper comment. Secured acquittals on all charges save for a strict liability offence which resulted in a community sentence. Successfully argued that the defendant ought not to be subject to provisions of the Sex Offenders Register.

Arson

R v DM and others. Instructed as leading counsel in the M1 arson trial concerning a series of fires near or underneath the M1 which resulted in its closure for several days.
R v TC - Successfully defendant a man charged with Arson on a service station forecourt.

Court of Appeal

2016 - R v DH: successful appeal against sentence for Possession of 40 kilos of Controlled Drugs
2015 - R v CM: appeal against discretionary life sentence
2014 - R v SJ: appeal against conviction in conspiracy to rob case.
2012 - R v DM : successfully defending prosecution appeal against terminatory ruling.
2011 – R v Fitch: Child pornography case where Defendant had over 4,500 images on 2 hard drives of level 1-5. Successfully appealed the assessment of the defendant as a dangerous offender under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 by a High Court Judge. His seven year extended sentence was reduced to three years.

R v ID - Alcohol diversion fraud to cheat the Revenue of in excess of £1 million. Cross border inter territorial disputes and VAT
R v NA - Southwark Crown Court. Successfully defended the only Company Director acquitted of a long running VAT fraud in the Indian restaurant sector.
R v YP - Leicester Crown Court. Huge conspiracy to defraud leading national institutions which totalled £12million from 12 different successful fraudulent enterprises with a further 7 organisations targeted.
R v CRH - Fraudulent trading offences contrary to Companies Act 1985 in relation to three different companies operating ticket exchange in unregulated market.
R v EK - Large scale phishing fraud. In excess of 100,000 pages.
R v ES - £15million VAT refund fraud and related confiscation hearing.
R v AP - Massive diversion VAT fraud whereby import licenses were manipulated to provide for a loss to HMRC of more than £25 million during the course of the conspiracy. Those convicted received the maximum sentence. Successfully secured the only acquittal for my client.
R v ST - One of the largest counterfeit tobacco smuggling prosecutions of the last 5 years.
R v SEM - Voluminous case of 2 separate Conspiracies to Defraud over £1.5 million over a 5 year period and related confiscation proceedings.
BSI v SH - regarding dissipation of assets prior to declaration of bankruptcy.
R v KC & Others. EURO30 Million money laundering case. Utilisation of network of Foreign Currency Exchanges across London. Sterling exchanged for high value Euro denominations bought from wholesale foreign currency dealers.
R v F Long-running fraud committed against a charity. Involved considerations of regulatory law in respect of charity trustees and directors’ duties.
R v Iqbal & Others Breach of trust, conspiracy to defraud. Bank employees involved in large scale fraudulent CHAPS transfers. Involved detailed analysis of internal banking transactions utilising Adobe software and regulatory aspect of banking practices.
R v BM & Others Leading junior representing the lead defendant in a multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class A (42 kilos of 89% purity cocaine). Defendant received equivalent of 24-year sentence. The related confiscation proceedings took 3 years to complete.
R v Francis - Represented Sri Lankan Tamil charged with conspiracy to defraud on a huge scale involving the cloning of over 250 credit cards distributed throughout the world from USA to Japan. Featured aspects of money laundering, cross jurisdictional money smuggling. Required detailed analysis of the technology of track data from magnetic strips on the reverse of old style swipe credit cards and their Chip & Pin replacements and investigation of interceptor and eavesdropping frauds where electronic devices are utilised to record sensitive security data as it is transmitted from reading device to bank. Related confiscation proceedings suggested the crime was funding the Tamil Tigers.
R v Quissema - Organised post office and Giro fraud gang. Sophisticated national operation with multiple false identities claiming in multiple locations across the UK. Represented the lead defendant in the Crown court and Court of Appeal.
R v Gombe Cross-jurisdictional fraud perpetrated on notable Middle Eastern national bank and internationally renowned broadcaster. This case involved analysis of highly complex international banking documents, foreign currency regulations and cross-jurisdictional conflicts. Regulatory laws of banking, currency controls and cross-jurisdictional trademark disputes.
R v Biao - Six handed organised crime counterfeit conspiracy where five of the six defendants absented themselves from the trial. Defendant acquitted by the jury in his absence.
R v Ashmere - Large-scale car ringing and export conspiracy. Involved ringing cars clocking them, giving them new identities then selling them here and abroad in Iraq and Eastern Europe.

Regulatory Proceedings

Significant experience in defending Police misconduct cases.
General Medical Council - Represented doctors in MTPS proceedings and advised prior to proceedings and after sanctions imposed.
Seconded to the Nursing and Midwifery Council - competence, misconduct and conviction cases. Interim Orders. High Court extensions.
R v AH - Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency case. Largest prosecution of its kind. Successfully defended Pharmacist as Leading Counsel.
Commissioner for Metropolitan Police v Waya. This was a successful defence of forfeiture proceedings but also a successful application for costs in the teeth of fierce resistance by the Metropolitan Police.

Trademark & IP Cases

Represented leading international furniture designer in respect of global brand protection.
R v Bomolo. Counterfeit luxury goods (Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Chanel) conspiracy to import from China to Africa through the UK.
R v Halai and others. Largest ever counterfeit prosecution by Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority. Leading counsel representing the alleged second in command of the architect of the largest ever pharmaceutical counterfeit prosecution by Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). 9 months trial described as “one of the most complex counterfeit medicines trials to be held in the UK.” by the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau. Subject of much publicity in the national media. Resulted in a hung jury. The retrial ended in a negotiated settlement and successfully defending an application for recovery of defendant’s costs of over £250,000. This case required a thorough understanding of complex pharmaceutical regulations, whole sale dealing licensing obligations, grey market EU import law and cross-jurisdictional, inter continental banking regulations to combat money laundering allegations. It also concerned allegations concerning contravening trademarks resulted and the seizure of over £1,500,000 of counterfeit medicines and the unravelling of the biggest conspiracy to supply counterfeit medicines encountered in the UK.

Disciplinary Cases

Police Appeals Tribunal oral hearing. Only 5% of appeals result in an invitation to present the case at an oral hearing.
Police Appeal Tribunal. Drafting and presenting successful 14,000 word appeal notice.
Re: GT. Police Disciplinary Tribunal. 5 day Gross Misconduct Tribunal. Empress State Building.
R v R CH representing a professional golf player charged with money laundering and dishonesty offences. Successfully argued that the confiscation regime should not apply and therefore saved the client hundreds of thousands of pounds which would have meant his house would have had to be sold.
UDRP. Representing international rugby union player in the retrieval of an unauthorised domain name registered in Gibraltar by Russian registrants.