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Michael Collis and Ruth Zentler-Munro represented the two defendants in a 3-and-a-half week case at Reading Crown Court. Both defendants were charged with conspiracy to burgle; the conspiracy spanning a six-month timeframe and involving at least thirteen dwelling-house burglaries. Read more on the case here.

Brian St.Louis has secured the acquittal of defendant O in the Oceana murder case. Their client was alleged to have been party to a fatal stabbing in the nightclub in Kingston in October 2012 but he was acquitted unanimously by a jury after two days' deliberations. The trial lasted six…

Dominic Benthall secured acquittals on the two most serious conspiracy counts out of the four matters faced by defendant ZA in the Oxford sex abuse case. To read press coverage of this case, please see the following links: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oxford-child-sex-grooming-gang-1889867 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22438623 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/oxford-child-paedophile-gang-council-chief-joanna-simons-insists-shes-will-not-resign-as-seven-men-are-found-guilty-of-child-rape-trafficking-and-organising-prostitution-8616023.html http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10423486.Cameron_warns__searching_questions__sparked_by_child_sex_grooming_case/