Daniella Adeluwoye

Daniella regularly defends in both the Magistrates’ Court and Crown Court, where she has represented clients charged with various offences such as serious fraud, violent disorder, drugs, weapons, serious violence, stalking, and theft. She has most recently secured acquittals on charges of knife possession, battery, sexual assault, indecent exposure, and various driving offences, including excess alcohol (in charge) and operating a handheld mobile phone while driving. She has also successfully argued for the dismissal of charges such as assault by beating, using violence to secure entry into property, and threatening to damage property. The judiciary has praised her advocacy as “elegant”, noted how she “forcibly” advanced her client’s mitigation, and commended her for the manner in which she articulately elicited her client’s evidence in the courtroom. Her calm and confident temperament puts clients at ease as she quickly grasps both the key issues and the finer details of the case in order to provide sensible advice.

R v WI - Acted for a defendant charged with violent disorder, possession of a bladed article in a public place (a machete), and possession of a prohibited weapon (a sword) in a private place. The defendant caused serious physical injury to two persons, and this was his ‘second-strike’ offence. Following Daniella’s assertion that the third count was misconceived in law, the Crown offered no evidence. Outcome - following guilty pleas entered to the remaining matters, Daniella carefully advanced considerable mitigation against the backdrop of several convictions. The sentence was successfully mitigated down to 25 months’ imprisonment — towards the very bottom of what the Court could have imposed.

R v CD - Acted for a youth defendant who had pleaded guilty to ABH (the youth defendant had hit another youth with a glass bottle on the head twice, causing injury). Outcome - secured a referral order.

Daniella has been instructed on an ongoing jurisdictional dispute where habitual residence is disputed. She welcomes instructions in all areas of family law. During her pupillage, Daniella undertook a secondment at a family boutique law firm in the City. She was exposed to complex high net-worth divorce cases.

Highlights of recent work include:

SL v SSHD (FFT) - Daniella successfully argued that the removal of her client to Nigeria would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for her such that it would constitute a breach of Article 8.

BK v SSHD (FTT) - Successful appeal on asylum and human rights grounds on behalf of a Kurdish asylum seeker.

Daniella welcomes instructions in all these areas. She clerks school admission appeal panels, advising panel members on the applicable legal test.

Daniella is regularly instructed in the County Court in small claims. She also accepts instructions in pre-trial hearing applications and TOLATA.

Daniella welcomes instructions in all areas of property and housing law. She accepts instructions in possession claims with an Inheritance Act 1975 element.