Crime

Recent Significant Cases

R v James Harvey – Gordon represented this American businessman who following a fatal accident whilst driving on the wrong side of the road on a business trip in the UK, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Ultimately a compromise was achieved with a plea to causing death by careless driving, and a non-custodial sentence secured, allowing the man to stay out of custody, remain in his employment and return to his family in the USA.

R v Urry – Secured the acquittal of this Defendant and financial advisor who was charged along with others with multiple mortgage frauds.

Op Carwash - Leading Prosecutor in a 15-Defendant Conspiracy to Burgle/Handle and POCA case; one of the biggest cases that Grimsby CPS have dealt with in recent years. A case based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. All Defendants were convicted, and Gordon appeared in the Court of Appeal for the CPS in relation to 4 of the Defendants. The POCA issues involved international elements.

R v DG – Gordon secured the conviction of this Defendant on 25 charges of historical rape and sexual abuse of his daughters and their half-sisters after a 7-day trial.

R v Hitchmough & Others – Secured convictions against 3 Defendants on charges of Possessing a Firearm with intent to endanger life and blackmail, following a 9-day trial.

R v James Dalgarno – Secured the acquittal of this man on 15 counts of rape and sexual assault following a 6-day trial (hung jury) and a 7-day retrial.

R v Carol Ann Clarke – Prosecuting female predatory paedophile and former teacher against a background of no complainants (all the children were too young to have any realisation that they had been abused) on the basis of piecing together what had been said to doctors, priests and the police over 15 years and on the contents of her voluminous medical notes and personal diary entries.

R v Hippsley – Defending a 72-year-old Defendant who was charged with causing the death of his wife by the dangerous driving of his Toyota Prius. He was advised that he could run the novel defence of Sudden Unintended Acceleration (SUA). This was a high-profile case in which the DPP got involved. The prosecution aborted the trial midway through to await developments in the USA and ultimately abandoned their case.

R v Roy Clay –Leading Junior for a defendant charged with fraud in the music business.

R v Bailey –acquittal of a high-level manager charged with others with a large-scale diesel fraud.

R v Corry – Gordon was Leading Junior for a high-level specialist nurse in a large care-home ill-treatment case, and obtained a stay on account of abuse of process based on delay and loss of records.

R v Fowler, Talbot & Biggs – Gordon prosecuted these 3 Defendants on POCA charges following their settlement of a POCA Confiscation Order in numerous small cash payments.

R v Dalton & Others – Gordon was Leading Junior for one of four Defendants in a large scale family money laundering and benefit fraud case.

R v Hoban & Others – Gordon was Junior to Malcolm Swift QC defending in this 4-handed torture case.

London Underground Fraud – Gordon was Leading Junior for one of three men in a sizeable London Underground Fraud case before Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court, where the men were charged with obtaining contracts by bribery.

R v Shirley Capp – Gordon represented the mother of Maxine Carr on charges of threatening a witness in relation to the Soham murder trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.

‘Donnygate’ – Gordon defended a former Mayor and elected Counsellor on charges of fraud relating to green belt land being changed to development land.

Personal Injury

Recent Significant Cases

Holleworth v M.O.D. – Gordon represented an injured submariner who as a result of an accident on board a submarine beneath the arctic ice was physically and psychologically injured, resulting in him being discharged from the Navy. Two of his colleagues were killed in the incident. The Claimant had been a high-flier who would most likely have gone on to have a full and successful career with an extension of service. Gordon prepared very detailed and comprehensive schedules of loss, which ultimately persuaded the M.O.D. to raise their offers of settlement to a significantly higher and appropriate level.

Boot v Guildway – Achieved a significantly higher offer from the defendant as a result of his detailed and persuasive schedules of loss of earnings for a professional self-employed man.

Violet Clark & 16 Others v Severn Trent Water Ltd – Gordon represented 17 Claimants in this public liability case following flooding of homes resulting from engineering works carried out by Severn Trent.

Conoco Oil Refinery Cases – Represented over 80 Claimant’s in this long-running large-scale litigation following an explosion at the Conoco Oil Refinery resulting in physical and psychological injury to numerous workers and some neighbouring residents.

Sheffield Supertram Inquest – Represented the family of the deceased at the Inquest following a fatal road traffic accident on a road shared with tram tracks. This inquest was the precursor to the significant and lengthy Supertram litigation flowing from this and other accidents linked to the Supertram tracks.

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