Christopher Kerr

Cases

Serious Crime

R v Crabtree & Crabtree [2022]. Murder.

R v Hammond [2022]. A series of serious sexual offences against vulnerable women in the Norwich area.

Operation Onston [2021]. 5 handed kidnapping case, involving torture.

R v W & O [2021]. Murder – both defendants were children.

R v Wright [2020]. Described by the trial judge as one of the worst cases of child abuse ever to come before the criminal courts in England and Wales.

R v Komolafe & Ors [2018]. International money laundering conspiracy.

R v Dale & ors [2018]. Attempted murder.

R v O’Neil & Ors [2018] Advance fee fraud in the luxury car industry.

R v Boyd & Ors [2018 EWCA Crim 693 Armed robbery.

R v Nasser & Ors [2017] Conspiracy to defraud.

R v Palmer [2017] Fraudulent trading in the motor vehicle industry.

R v Abbas [2017] EWCA Crim 2015. Kidnapping.

Operation Dante [2016-17] International drugs smuggling conspiracy.

Operation Sediment [2016] Conspiracy to import counterfeit cigarettes from China.

R v Ghadiri [2016] Conspiracy to defraud the Revenue and the Charities Commission.

Operation Frost [2016] Kidnapping conspiracy.

R v Higley & Ors [2014 – 2015] Drugs and money laundering conspiracy.

A & Ors [2010] Marine insurance fraud.

R v Holland & Ors [2009] Contract kidnapping with firearms.

Regulatory Law

R v RP  [2017] Fraudulent trading in the motor vehicle industry.

Beckwill Builders [2015] Fraudulent trading in the building industry.

Operation Neptune [2014] Fraudulent trading in the bottled water industry.

Operation Magnet [2011] multi-million pound housing benefit fraud.

R v Enviro-Waste [2009] Triple fatality in the farming industry.

R v Gibson & W [2008] Loss adjusting fraud.

High profile health and safety prosecutions of major companies, such as John Mowlem, Bison Structures, Balfour Beatty, Ipswich Docks, Carillion, and the Thames Tunnels Project.

MTIC Fraud/Tax Appeals

CCA Distribution Limited v HMRC [2019]; [2017] EWCA Civ 1899.

Vale Europe v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 662 (TC)

Synectiv v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 92 (TC); [2013] UKFTT 677 (TC)

Fairford Group PLC v HMRC [2015]

Direct Communications Limited v HMRC [2015]

Intekx Limited v HMRC [2014] UKFTT 277 (TC)

Foneshops Limited v HMRC [2013]: £20 million MTIC fraud in the First Tier Tax Tribunal.

Softhouse Consulting Limited v HMRC [2014] STI 748.

Global Enterprises v HMRC [2013] UKFTT 014 (TC) Harwich GSM Limited v HMRC [2012] UKFTT 279.

HT Purser Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 860 (TC)

Annova Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 742 (TC); [2014 UKUT 28 (TCC).

Flashpoint Technology Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 353 (TC)