Lewis Power
Year of Call: 1990
Appointments:
Past lecturer and External Examiner for Birbeck College, University of London in International Law
Practice Profile:
Lewis is a highly experienced junior criminal counsel with a dynamic and diverse practice, ranging from high profile cases such as the infamous Grobbelaar "football match fixing" case to the "London Terrorist Bombings" case and he also acts regularly as leading counsel in cases such as murder and serious fraud. Last year Lewis featured as being in the Top Ten list of the most successful barristers in the UK. He also guest lectures in the fields of Health & Safety Law, Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime and in International Law.
Notable Cases:
R v Skibicki (2010) - Leading Counsel in Polish Murder Case.
R v Kamden (2010) Human Trafficking and Rape Case.
R-v- Turvey (2010) - Historic Rape Case involving rape of 11 year old and sexual grooming case by family member.
R v O'Neill (2010) Multiple Rape Case.
R v Bashir (2010) Death by Careless Driving case.
R v Odeyemi (2010) Working Tax Credit Fraud Case.
R v Matthews (2010) Multi-Million Pound Mortgage Fraud - Leading Counsel.
R v S (2010) Ongoing Murder Case as Leading Counsel.
R v Majeed (2009-2010) Crawley Town Football Club Director - Revenue Fraud and multi-million pound confiscation.
R v Davies (2009) "Cash for Crash" Car Insurance multi-handed fraud and successful confiscation legal argument.
R v Ali (2009) Attempted murder of wife case.
R v Obih (2009) Murder of Luton Police Officer case.
R v Barnett (2009) Health & Safety Case representing Director of Eastbourne Buses where death of bus driver occurred.
R-v- Collins (2009) - Multi-Million Pound Cannabis Factory Conspiracy
R-v- Abdelgadir & Others (2008) London Terrorist Bombings Case where only 1 out of 2 Defendants acquitted.
R v Khan (2008) Multi-handed Samurai Sword Attack - lead counsel - acquitted.
R v Murphy (2008) Kidnapping case - lead counsel - acquitted.
R-v- M (2007) Leading Counsel in the "Adams Family" Gangland Case "Operation Trinity" and joint Police and MI5 case quoted as the biggest corruption case to come before the UK Courts - acted as leading counsel and secured acquittal for Family Accountant.
R v Todd (2006) - gross negligence manslaughter climber on Mt Everest
R v Bouhaddou (2005) - junior counsel in Chiswick Burglary murder case
R v Magliaro (2005) - covert multi-task force police operation on drug gangs
R v Ali (2005) - ambulance driver/patient robbery
R v Patapiou (2005) - internation million pound VAT fraud
R v Harris (2005) - international internet drugs wholesaling enterprise
R v Youssof (2005) - corporate manslaughter, health and safety
R v Reed (2005) - torture and kidnapping
R v Sutton (2004) - CA child abuse
R v Walton (2004) - armed robbery gang case
R v Cheng (2004) - complex trading standards case, corporate veil, issues, multi-million pound confiscation case
R v Ravandi (2004) - leading counsel in country's largest ever money laundering case involving 100m pound
R v Wilson (2004) - company fraud
R v Patel (2003) - murder 17 year old defendant
R v Sinclair (2003) - leading counsel in "Yardie" contract-killing case
R v Williams (2003) - first car jacking murder case in UK
R v Okere (2002) - international fraud
R v Binning (2001) - multi-million pound VAT and Excise Duty Fraud
R v Ali & others (2001) - as leading counsel in the world's largest Internet Pornography case "Wonderland"
R v Markowiak (2001) - as leading counsel in the country's largest legal aid fraud case acting for Tina Tong)
R v Bradfield & Others [1998] (murder case where acted alone for Defendant
R v Chris Sutton (2000) - assault
R v Morris (1999) - Official Secrets Case
R v Grobbelaar & Others (1997) - football match-fixing case
Membership:
Northern Irish Bar, Criminal Bar Association, Sussex Bar Mess, International Bar Association
Languages:
French
Interests:
Passionate Chelsea supporter; Golf; Irish Sports ; Architecture; Travel ; Theatre; International Law ; currently studying to become Attorney at the Californian Bar.
Practice Group(s):
Crime
Practice Areas:
Criminal law (including fraud), Confiscation and asset recovery
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