Marc Tregidgo

Notable Cases: Public & Administrative Law

•R (Pte. SK) -v- Army Board of the Defence Council (2010)

Providing advice and representation to ex-serviceman compulsorily discharged from the Army; challenge to alleged failure to comply with s. 338 of the Armed Services Act 2006

•R (VJ) -v- St Albans District Council and Hertfordshire County Council (2010)

Providing advice and representation to 13 year old girl with cerebral palsy, seeking a mandatory order and damages against local authority in relation to disability adaptation work to her home

•R (NV) -v- Luton Borough Council (2009)

Provided advice to disabled claimant with spinal condition, leading to the local authority reversing its decision to not provide her access to disabled facilities

•R (T) -v- Ealing Borough Council (2009)

Provided advice in relation to a new born asylum seeker and his mother, to whom the council proposed to terminate community care support

•R (R) v. London Borough of Barnet (2009)

Advised in relation to the legality of a decision of the local authority to issue a penalty notice in respect to alleged benefit fraud

•R (IA) v. Wood Green Crown Court (2009)

Advised in relation to conduct of tribunal during trial

•R (S) v. (1) London Borough of Southwark (2) UK Border Agency (2008)

Provided advice and representation for a four year old asylum seeker with learning difficulties, leading to the local authority reversing its decision to disperse him and his mother from London and ensuring the continued provision of community care support

 

Notable Cases: Commercial Litigation

•Miles Solicitors –v- DD (2010)

Advising and acting on behalf of solicitors in action to recover fees from client

•Bhandal –v- Sahota (2009)

Conducted trial on behalf of the respondent concerning loan dispute, allegations of fraud, witness interference and perjury

 

Notable Cases: Crime

•R -v- AM (2010) – Sexual assault, assault on police

Issue: fitness to plead

•R -v- AY (2010) – Possession with intent to supply heroin, dangerous driving

Issue: whether evidence sufficient to justify indictment

•R. v. ES (2010) – Facilitating breach of UK immigration law

Issue: ES and his brother convicted of smuggling his baby son into the country by using a false identity document. The case gives rise to a novel point of law concerning the application of Article 31(1) of the Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and (1967) and section 31(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, namely whether a genuine asylum seeker can be prosecuted for assisting another genuine asylum seeker (whose claim is subsumed into his own by virtue of their parent/child relationship) to enter the UK in breach of immigration controls.

•R –v- CP & Ors (2009) - Aggravated burglary

Issues: whether the extensive antecedents of the Crown witnesses could be adduced before the jury, reliability of DNA evidence.

•R. v. CO (2009) – Importation of cocaine

Issues: telephone evidence linking the Defendants, cut-throat defence, international cash transfers by CO. CO was added to the indictment one month before the trial and the case required intensive preparation under enormous time pressure. CO was acquitted (his co-defendant was convicted).

•R -v- NB (2009) – Assault occasioning actual bodily harm

Issue: unprovoked attack on co-worker at place of employment, defendant suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and believed that the victim had racially abused him prior to the attack; Newton Hearing was held to determine whether or not a bottle had been used during the attack, issue was decided in NB’s favour.

•R –v – RA – Conspiracy to steal

Issues: as a led junior, Mr Tregidgo assisted in the preparation of RA’s defence. RA head of the housing repairs team at the local authority; document heavy case, submissions challenging inadequate disclosure; local authority instructed counsel to appear on its behalf to contest requests for disclosure; large amounts of further disclosure were ordered by the Court.