Adam has worked on matters covering the entirety of the criminal calendar including major conspiracies to commit sexual offences, conspiracies to murder, people trafficking, drugs conspiracies, complex frauds and many historic sexual abuse cases.
Career highlights
Call: 1998
Adam has over 30 years’ experience within the area of criminal defence work as both solicitor and counsel.
Adam has acted as leading counsel on a number of cases including historic sexual abuse and drugs supply, and been junior counsel to silk on a whole host of matters including many murder cases.
Adam was formerly a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1994.
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Specialist areas
Fraud
Adam has defended in very high costs cases (VHCC) concerning fraud.
Murder, drugs and serious violence
Adam has acted alone in a number of manslaughter cases against Queen’s Counsel. He has worked on a number of very high cost cases including fraud and organised football hooliganism.
POCA
Adam has handled many heavyweight POCA applications as defence counsel.
Serious sexual offences
Adam has specialised in the defence of allegations of sexual offences and, in particular, historic sexual abuse.
Notable cases
Attempted murder and serious violence. Shooting at vehicle on busy high-street followed by drug related stabbing
Murder and firearms conspiracy concerning an alleged gangland drugs related shooting
Murder case involving serious mental health and causation issues, arising from long term physical and emotional abuse of deceased. This case involved several complex medical considerations relating to causation (organ failure; internal injuries; bone damage and repair).
£13 million fraud involving the sale of defective kitchens.
Major multi-handed nationwide credit card fraud.
The Rochdale grooming case. Involving the targeting of vulnerable young children in care.
People trafficking/sexual exploitation (leading authority on the policy not to prosecute those who are themselves victims of trafficking).
Drugs importation from The Continent involving jurisdictional issues.
Multi-million pound drugs importation.