David Tremain

Cases

Criminal Defence

R v MU & Others – David’s client was the first to be acquitted by the jury in a three-handed case where the Defendants were charged with possession of offensive weapons and were seen on CCTV attending a property and handling knives. David’s client successfully put forward a defence of good reason.

R v B – David secured acquittal for a student who had removed and discarded property from a car allegedly subject to a drugs search.

R v W – David successfully appealed to the Court of Appeal a sentence imposed for repeated breaches of a Criminal Behaviour Order. The Court agreed the offences had been wrongly categorised and reduced the overall sentence.

R v R – David successfully defended a Newton Hearing where his client was said to have been running a commercial cannabis operation. Expert evidence was led to support the client’s case that the operation, which had burned down his flat, was solely to supply himself and family.

R v ML & Others – David represented a climate protestor charged in connection with demonstrations in Westminster. He undertook lengthy cross-examination of the Crown’s main witness, an Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police.

Criminal Prosecution

R v N – David successfully prosecuted the appeal against conviction of a professional footballer for motoring offences

R v Z & Others – David prosecuted three youths accused of knifepoint robbery; two were convicted.