Areas of Practice:

• Crime
• Direct Public Access

Experience:

Johan became a tenant on completion of pupillage at chambers. Prior to coming to the Bar, Johan was employed as a decision writer at the Financial Ombudsman Service for a number of years and later as a regulatory consultant at a financial services consultancy. Johan then practised as a solicitor at a leading criminal defence firm based in the City of London.

Crime:

Crown court trials defending alone:

• R v B: Possession with intent to supply heroin involving a "cuckooing" arrangement (Inner London - 2018)

• R v H: Third-strike domestic burglary (Canterbury - 2018)

• R v H: Illegal immigrant accused of obtaining work as a nurse by deception (Snaresbrook - 2018)

• R v A: Four-handed GBH (Reading - 2018)

• R v T: Possession of several offensive weapons in the boot of a car (Harrow - 2018)

• R v F: Attempted knife-point robbery involving injury to the victim (see: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15601845.Teenager_accused_of_attempted_robbery_is_cleared_of_all_charges/) (Oxford - 2017)

R v W: s.18 GBH: stab to the face with a screwdriver (Kingston - 2017)

• R v R: Possession with intent to supply cocaine at a music festival (Maidstone - 2017)

• R v J: Six-handed affray in a curry house (Inner London - 2017)

• R v T: Affray with a knife in a kebab house (Chelmsford - 2017)

• R v L: Two-handed actual bodily harm on a taxi driver (Snaresbrook - 2017)

• R v R: Aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving (Snaresbrook - 2017)

• R v R: Possession of a combat knife in a public place (Wood Green - 2017)

• R v O: Witness intimidation in a chicken shop (Kingston - 2016)

• R v C: Robbery of a set of car keys from an ex-girlfriend (Isleworth - 2016)

• R v F: Racially aggravated public order (Basildon - 2016)

• R v Z: Dangerous driving case involving a defence application to exclude inadmissible evidence (Harrow - 2016)

• R v F: Theft from employer (Harrow - 2016)

Led: R v N: Murder and attempted murder by stabbing (Led by Isabella Forshall QC) (Cambridge - 2018)

Reported:

• R v Ilyas [2018] EWCA Crim 718

• R v Crandon [2018 EWCA Crim 1418

POCA:

R v K: 3-day contested confiscation with a benefit figure of £92m (see: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cocaine-baron-pensioner-who-imported-10118840)

Civil:

Johan accepts instructions on a range of civil matters. He has acted in numerous credit hire trials across the county. Johan recently acted for a high street food chain at the employment tribunal defending a claim brought against it by a former director..