Profile: Silas is a very approachable Leading Junior practising in criminal law. He enjoys an impressive reputation as both an outstanding trial advocate and consummate technical lawyer.

He concentrates his practice on murder cases, both in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal, as well as large-scale fraud cases and the full range of serious criminal offending.

Mentally ill defendants are a speciality.

He is a member of the Criminal Bar Association.

Silas also lectures in advocacy at the College of Law.

Qualifications:
MA (Cantab) (Mathematics)
CPE (University of Westminster)

Reported Cases:
R v Jalland - Appeared without a leader dealing with the admission of bad character in murder cases (Court of Appeal).
R v Golding - Interpreting the criteria for imposing restriction orders under the Mental Health Act (Court of Appeal).
R v Bennett - Defence of diminished responsibility to murder (Central Criminal Court).
R v Moore - Murder reduced to manslaughter at end of prosecution case after detailed dissection of medical evidence of causation (Lewes Crown Court).
R v Williams and others - £11,000,000 money laundering case involving Hawala banking (Croydon Crown Court).
R v Nelson Sebastiao and another - Extensive identity fraud and conspiracy to deal with £142,000 of stolen girocheques (Snaresbrook Crown Court).