Overview
David Hislop came to the Bar in England in 1988 having qualified and practised for nine years in New Zealand in both the criminal and civil practice areas. Since commencing practise in the United Kingdom he has specialised in the criminal Law.
His practice covers all forms of serious crime including murder, terrorism and organised crime (violent and financial) and extradition.
David Hislop practises solely as defence counsel in major criminal cases. His reputation is "a preparedness to defend the indefensible" and win.
In the last 15 years he has built up a particularly strong practice in the defence of those involved in serious organised crime.
He has considerable experience in the field of financial crime having recently successfully defended a claim brought by the Crown against Hamin Soylu (R v Soylu) in the sum of £28 million. And similarly a claim for £1.4 million in (R v Uddin). He is regularly briefed in confiscation proceedings both in the Crown Court and the High Court. He is presently defending a man facing money laundering allegations in Operation Aloof (£60million).
David Hislop frequently advises for and appears in cases in the Court of Appeal and has registered in the English Courts forensic success for Defendants on European Convention points. He has been instrumental in the quashing of convictions for murder in the Court of Appeal R v Severatnam and R v McLean. His appellate work also includes Commonwealth Appeals to the Privy Council in capital and non-capital cases.
His international experience apart from an extensive common law practice at the Bar in New Zealand, includes lecturing in Human Rights, Advocacy and the Law of Evidence in Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
He further has considerable experience as defence counsel defending those in the Armed Forces having represented Corporal Schofield (rape of his commanding officer) both in Germany and before the Court of Appeal Court's Martial and advising on the referral of the said case to Strasbourg.
Specialist Practice Areas
General Crime
Recent Cases: - R v Freaney - Murder (2011)
- R v Satpal Kaur-Singh -Murder (2011)
- R v Laguda & Anr - Murder (2010)
- R v Peters & Ors - Murder (2011)
- R v Slinger - Rape (2011)
- R v Ubani & Anr - Importation of Cocaine (2010)
- R v Campbell - Supply of Cocaine (2010)
- R v Ogodo - gun crime (2010)
- R v Biggs - Child Cruelty (2009)
Appellate Work
Recent Cases:
- R v Seevaratnam - Murder (2010).
- R v Al-Soltan & Al-Fahad - Murder (2010).
- Attorney General's Reference 50 of 2009.
- R v Haslam (Jonathan) (2009).
- Attorney Generals Reference 55 of 2009.
- R v Shirley (John Roy) (2009).
- R v Biggs - Child Cruelty (2009).
- R v Kearns - Rape (2009).
- R v Xhepmetaj - Rape (2009).
White Collar Crime
Instructed as counsel in a wide variety of fraud cases: - R v M & Ors (Operation Aloof) - defending money laundering allegations in excess of £60 million through a number of bureau de change businesses in London.
- R v Sinclair & Ors (Operation Vitric) - Alleged loss to the Revenue £168 million: Missing Trader Intra-Community ('MTIC') fraud, or Carousel fraud as it is also known. Instructed as counsel for Sinclair. Complex factual and legal issues, some 26,000 pages of evidence, trial fixed to last a year, after 40 days of legal argument on disclosure and entrapment issues proceedings stayed for abuse of process.
- R v Cooke & Ors - Instructed as counsel to defend Cooke, Advanced Fee Fraud of considerable size, Cooke was a solicitor charged together with other members of his law firm for their part in an advanced fee fraud also allegations of money laundering. Cooke acquitted after six months of trial. Numerous legal arguments successfully argued inclusive of the excluding of compulsory interviews by Law Society investigators - Article 6 ECHR.
- R v Sidhu & Ors - Instructed as leading counsel, substantial mail fraud approximately 50 lever arch files of evidence, trial fixed for four months, in the first week of trial successfully applied for dismissal on sufficiency of evidence.
- R v Mayhew - Instructed as leading counsel in the defence of money laundering charges - 30 lever arch files of evidence, much of it banking evidence and the tracing of the defendants funds through various overseas bank accounts - the candidate is now defending confiscation proceedings brought by the Crown seeking recover of £1.5 million.
- R v Mullen & Ors - "Boiler room" fraud (alleged losses in the order of £1 million.
- R v Shakeel Ahmed - Banking Fraud and Money Laundering
Extradition
Recent Cases:
- Phillip Harkins v Secretary State for Home Office & US Govt
Past Cases
His defence of those involved in serious organised crime includes: - R v Sinclair & Ors - Operation Vitric, carousel fraud where alleged loss to Revenue and Customs £168 million
- R v Osborn - VAT fraud - £2.5 million
- R v Van Helsingden - Immigration Fraud
- R v Danso & Ors - attempted contract killing
- R v Tahir Soylu - importation 100 kg Heroin
- R v Sidhu & Ors - mail fraud - £16 million
- R v Butler - VAT fraud £2.1 million
- R v Tang - controlling prostitution
- R v Vile - CIT Armed Robbery
- R v Eldridge - CIT Armed Robbery
- R v Shams & Ors - kidnapping, false imprisonment, torture
- R v Alvarado & Ors - Columbian cocaine conspiracy R v Ahmed - murder
2007 - R v McLean No.2 - murder
- R v Singh - Murder
- R v Shams & Ors - kidnapping, false imprisonment, torture
2006
- R v Gunaratnam & Ors - double murder
- R v McLean & Ors - murder
- R v Njoku - murder
- R v Duncan - murder
- R v Miles - murder
- R v Maxwel - murder
- R v Cash - murder
Recent Publications
- Contributing author The Practitioners Guide to the Law and Regulation of Financial Crime - 2010
- "Restraint Orders and The Rights of Those Defrauded" - Archbold News 2009
- "Banks, SARS and the Customer" - New Law Journal 2009
- A regular contributor to Butterworths On line Human Rights Commentaries.
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Year of Call
1979
1979 (New Zealand). 1989 (England & Wales)
Queen's Counsel
2010
Education
LLB; Diploma, National Institute
Trial Advocacy (Denver University,
Colarado); Advanced Diploma, National Institute Trial Advocacy (Hofstra University, New York)
Email Address
d.hislop@doughtystreet.co.uk
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