Mark Hemming

Significant Cases

  • General Crime
  • Regulatory
  • Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings and related civil investigation and recovery
  • Court Martial proceedings
  • Coroner’s Court proceedings
  • Court of Appeal. Represented appellant on manifestly excessive sentence for theft. Appeal denied
  • Court of Appeal. Represented appellant on terms of Sexual Offences Prevention Order. Appeal allowed
  • Duty solicitor and police station advice Road Traffic offences
  • Numerous cases from police station to Court of Appeal, including baby murder; gang related drugs and firearms; serious drugs and violence; sexual offences, including historic cases; and driving cases involving death
  • Successfully defended a baby’s father (as a paralegal), charged with murder. Mother was convicted
  • Successfully defended a charge of rape
  • Successfully defended a client charged with historic sexual offences, in a fact finding hearing
  • Successfully defended a case of football related violent disorder
  • Successfully represented a case of GBH (stabbing)
  • Represented a client who had been driving when his passenger had been killed
  • Defending the case against involvement by Coroner and CPS, client was convicted of careless driving (days before death by careless driving became law), and his licence endorsed with 9 penalty points
  • Successfully represented a male in Coroners Court, who had restrained the deceased by a neck hold. Court deemed his actions self defence, and lawful restraint
  • Successfully represented a Muslim client in POCA proceedings, avoiding property being recovered, having argued that his marriage ceremony was only a Nikah (i.e. religious) ceremony, so that property owned by his “wife” could not form a part of Defendant’s available amount
  • Successfully represented a client in Court Martial, charged with possession of cocaine. Case dismissed, meaning that Defendant was not dismissed from the Army
  • Successfully represented a senior Army officer in Court Martial, charged with theft of army property while serving abroad, over a long period of time. Case dismissed. Officer remained in servi