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| Year of call 1994 | |
| Education LLB University of London, LSE | |
| Practice Profile Criminal Law: Prosecution and defence; serious crime; fraud; conspiracy; offences of dishonesty; sex crimes; cases involving disqualified company directors; regulatory work for local authorities; confiscation hearings. Regularly instructed to appear in the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal. Prison Law: Nathan also has considerable experience in all levels of prison law: adjudications, parole board hearings and advising on judicial review. Recent cases have involved being leading junior counsel on a 3-month kidnapping conspiracy at Harrow Crown Court. Junior defence counsel in R v Woolley and others at Derby Crown Court, a large drugs conspiracy. London Borough of Waltham Forest v Sheikh and others, an £11.2 million contested confiscation claim at the Snaresbrook Crown Court and at the Court of Appeal. Prosecution counsel in R v Stafford, a case involving substantial deceptions by a company director. R v Bowman and Carter at the Croydon Crown Court and at the Court of Appeal. Nathan has a particular expertise in cases causing death by dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention whilst over the prescribed limited resulting in death and related matters. He is regularly instructed as specialist counsel in both Magistrates and Crown Courts. Nathan has experience of advising, drafting statements of case and representing Claimants in civil actions against the police and in the judicial review of criminal proceedings. Nathan is qualified to accept instructions under the Bar Council Public Access Scheme. | |
| Notable Cases R -v- Shreeve. Prosecution of a defendant charged with administering a noxious substance contrary to section 24 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. He was a school laboratory technician who had lured a 17-year-old sixth form pupil into the school chemical store and he then tricked her into inhaling chloroform. After the trial the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for 30 months. BBC Report R -v– Ward and Makaveckas. Prosecution of section 18 wounding with intent at the Central Criminal Court (case transferred from the Inner London Crown Court.) R -v- Foreman. Defending. Maidstone Crown Court. Possession with intent to supply class A drugs. This case involved extensive legal submission on a range on issues including the jurisdiction of the Crown Court to be seized of the matter flowing the purported committal/sending of the matter from the Magistrates’ to the Crown Court. R -v- Waddington and others. Snaresbrook Crown Court. Prosecution (without a junior) of a 5-handed violent disorder. The trial lasted three-and-a-half weeks and involved numerous legal submissions. The case turned on the detailed analysis of CCTV evidence and the cross-examination of the defendants. At the conclusion of the trial, the whole prosecution was commended by the Judge. R -v- Edwards and others. Maidstone Crown Court defending in a 5-handed violent disorder. R -v- Sutherland. Prosecution. Trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Possession with intent to supply class A drugs, namely crack cocaine, and a Proceeds of Crime Offence. R -v- Lawrence. Prosecution. Wood Green Crown Court. Robberies. Defence of insanity, the defendant’s mental illness was such as to render him incapable of forming the specific intent to commit the alleged offence. Three section 12(2) Mental Health Act 1983 approved psychiatrists attended for the hearing under the provisions of The Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964. R -v- Khan and others at Leicester Crown Court. Representing the first on the indictment in a 4-handed kidnapping and blackmail case. R -v- White at Inner London Crown Court. Representing a 55-year-old of good character charged with section 18 wounding with intent. The defendant was found not-guilty after a successful submission of no-case to answer. R -v- Norman Sinclair at Canterbury Crown Court and Harrow Crown Court. Representing the “most wanted burglar in Britain”. Police believed that he was responsible for over 2,700 domestic burglaries. R -v- Woolley and others at Derby Crown Court. Junior counsel in a substantial drug importation and subsequent Proceeds of Crime hearings. R -v- Bowman and others at Croydon Crown Court. [2005] EWCA Crim 1093. Representing the first defendant on charges of ABH and attempting to pervert the course of justice. There was a trial and a re-trial in the Crown Court with extensive legal argument. On appeal the convictions were quashed. L.B. of Waltham Forest -v- Sheikh [2005] EWCA Crim 3692. Representing the defendant at Snaresbrook Crown Court and the Court of Appeal in contested £11m confiscation proceedings following guilty pleas to using trademarks without authority. R -v- Ibrahim and another at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Representing the defendant in a case where the prosecution applied to read the evidence of the alleged victim under the CJA 2003; the application was successfully resisted. R -v- Stafford at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Representing the Crown. The defendant pleaded guilty to 31 offences of obtaining money by deception from the company that had employed him as finance director and then as a consultant. R -v- Esbitia Bueno at Inner London Crown Court. The defendant was charged with robbery and gbh. The case ended with successful submission of no case to answer. R -v- Palmer at Aylesbury Crown Court. Representing the defendant charged with causing death by careless driving whilst unfit through drugs. R -v- Abbiss, Hereford Magistrates Court. Representing a disqualified company director who continued to trade contrary to an undertaking she had made on an earlier occasion. R -v- Denny, Inner London Crown Court and Court of Appeal. Representing the defendant who was charged with serious firearms and drugs offences. [2006] EWCA Crim 2624. R -v- Wellington-Guthrie at Inner London Crown Court. Prosecuting 2 young defendants who had committed a section 18 wounding. R -v- Marijus Kukarenas and others at Harrow Crown Court. An eight-week, six-handed kidnapping trial as leading junior Counsel. R -v- Aksenavicius 2008 – Snaresbrook prosecuting. The indictment contained 10 counts of theft/fraud on an elderly employer. The value of the deception was approx £16,000. R -v- Cali & Noor, Isleworth Crown Court 2009, currently prosecuting a series of immigration and identification document offences. R -v- Gayle and others, Snaresbrook Crown Court, successfully prosecuted a series of Cash in Transit robberies including the use of an imitation firearm following a Flying Squad investigations. R -v- Tonge, Gloucester Crown Court, defending in a conspiracy to supply class A drugs. R -v- Ian Rowe, Guildford Crown Court, defending in a mortgage fraud, the case involved handwriting experts and extended confiscation hearings. Numerous benefit frauds for Local Authorities. British Coal Respiratory Diseases Litigation. One of a team of juniors instructed on behalf of the DTI during the discovery stage and throughout the one-year High Court trial. | |
| Memberships and Affiliations On the Attorney General’s list of Approved Counsel for CPS prosecutions. Member of the Criminal Bar Association. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. | |
| Additional Information What clients say: "He was in my opinion an exceptional defence barrister and seemed to have an objective view on every angle. It was without any doubt in my mind his professionalism that lead the jury to return a not guilty verdict" SEMINARS Presented seminars on sentencing and road traffic law. | |
| Practice Groups Crime Prison Law Local Authorities & Public Law | |