Tom Little’s practice focuses heavily on criminal, fraud and regulatory cases. He is ranked as a Leading Junior for Crime and for Fraud in Chambers UK and the Legal 500.
In criminal and fraud matters Tom both prosecutes and defends. Tom regularly appears in homicide cases at the Old Bailey. He has undertaken two cases for the SFO both of which resulted in convictions against all the Defendants and has successfully represented the SFO in the Administrative Court. Tom is a Grade 4 prosecutor (on both the CPS fraud and rape lists) and is also on the Panel of the Attorney General's List of Prosecuting Counsel. Tom has particular expertise in relation to restraint, asset recovery and confiscation proceedings and frequently advises on issues arising from the overlap between criminal and civil proceedings. He is Security Cleared and Developed Vetted and has significant experience of PII and the disclosure of material of the highest sensitivity. Tom is regularly instructed in complex criminal cases involving huge volumes of telephone and cell site evidence.
He has appeared in and advised on a large number of Judicial Review cases linked to criminal investigations and in particular relating to the execution of search warrants as well as decisions as to whether or not to prosecute. He has also appeared in a large number of Case Stated Appeals in the Divisional Court.
Tom has significant experience of appearing before the First Tier Tribunal (Care Standards) instructed by the T Sols as well as appearing in MTIC cases in the First Tier Tribunal (Tax).
Tom represents the Metropolitan Police in relation to civil actions against the Police and Inquests as well as applications for ASBOs, SOPOs, cash seizures and closure orders. He is one of the joint authors of the Law Society book 'Preventative Orders a Practical Guide' published in September 2010. He has also appeared in a number of Shotgun/ Firearms licence appeals.
Tom was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit on the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee in 2004 and was therefore responsible for the introduction of the Criminal Procedure Rules which came in to force on 4th April 2005. The Lord Chancellor reappointed Tom to the Committee for a further period of 4 years in 2007.
Testimonials
Recommended in Fraud: Criminal for being "intelligent, sensible, hard-working and always good with detail - a good choice for large paper cases." Chambers and Partners Clients' Guide 2010
Recommended in Crime for his work in the "harrowing 'caustic soda' rape trial R v McMorris, Brew and Muaimba." Legal 500 Clients' Guide 2009 Edition
Recommended in Fraud: Crime for his "cross examination skills." Legal 500 Clients' Guide 2009 Edition
Recommended for being "particularly strong for cases requiring well-considered cross examination of robust prosecution witnesses, and a keen eye on documentary evidence." Legal 500 Clients' Guide 2008 Edition
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Cases
General Crime
R v Dlugosz and Wyrostek (2011) Prosecuted manslaughter trial involving the binding and gagging of a lone female in her 80s during the course of a burglary. She was left tied up and died of hypothermia. Case involved complex bad character and LCN DNA arguments.
R v Allen (2011) Prosecuted baby murder trial at the Old Bailey.
R v Kayani [2011] EWCA Crim 2871 Instructed solely in the Court of Appeal by the CPS in this Guideline sentencing case on child abduction before the Lord Chief Justice
Attorney General's Reference No 75 of 2011 [2011] EWCA Crim 2879 Appeared for the Attorney General in a review of a sentence based on the failure to impose an IPP on an offender with previous convictions including manslaughter and robbery
Attorney General's Reference No 53 of 2011 [2011] EWCA Crim 2598 Led by the Solicitor General in a review of sentence of 18 year old convicted of a knife point stranger rape in her own home
Attorney General's Reference No 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45 [2011] EWCA Crim 2174 Led by the Attorney General in a review of sentence of 5 offenders for a conspiracy to defraud targetted at elderly victims in thier own homes
R v Abrahams and Allen (2011) Prosecuted double attempted murder trial. Case involved a drug deal related shooting and was heavily based on expert evidence relating to cell site and firearms residue.
R v Lindsay (2011) Prosecuted murder case in which it was alleged the Defendant beat his parter to death and then set fire to her to hide his crime and make it look as though he was not the perpetrator.
R v Langlands (2011) Prosecuted murder by repeated stabbing to the head of 83 year old by her grandson. Case involved novel arguments on the partial defence of Diminished Responsibility.
R (Firth) v Epping Magistrates' Court [2011] 1 W.L.R. 1818 Appeared on behalf of the DPP in important Judicial Review claim relating to the admissibility of the contents of a Case Progression Form completed by the Defendant's advocate.
Attorney General's Reference No 65 of 2010 [2011] 2 Cr.App.R.(S.) 33 Led by the Attorney General in the Court of Appeal in appeal of a suspended sentence imposed on an offender for an offence of causing grievous bodily harm on his estranged wife who was pregnant.
R v Cole & 12 others (2010) Prosecuted 13 members of the SUK gang for large scale conspiracy to supply class A drugs in South West London.
Attorney General's Reference No 31 of 2010 (2010) Represented the Attorney General in appeal of a supervision order imposed on a 17 year old girl for an offence of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
R v H (2010) Prosecuted murder by 15 years old boy of his best friend following insults being traded on Facebook and Facebook Livechat.
R v Varsani (2009 - 2010) [2011] 1 Cr.App.R.(S) 96 Represented the Prosecution in Ipswich Crown Court and in the Court of Appeal in this important sentencing and confiscation decision which determined the value of duty evaded on counterfeit cigarettes.
R v Rainsford & Others (2009) Prosecuted eight defendant conspiracy to rob relating to smash and grab jewellery robbery.
R v McMorris & Others (2009) Prosecuted seven defendants for gang rape of a 16 year old girl who was nearly burnt to death with caustic soda.
R v Langley & Others (2009) Defended as a Leading Junior in a large conspiracy to disguise criminal property including covert surveillance and probe evidence.
R v Khalisadar & Others (2008 - 2009) Prosecuted a nine Defendant case involving a knife-point stranger rape and a sophisticated conspiracy to pervert the course of justice linked to the East London Mosque. Much of the investigation was undertaken by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command. The case involved a wealth of complex expert evidence as well as a number of novel Human Rights arguments.
Fraud
R v William & others (2011) Prosecuted six defendant multi-million tax fraud and associated money laundering by the family both internationally and by purchasing properties
R v Bestel (2011) Prosecuted multi-million pound mortgage fraud for CPS Fraud Prosecution Service.
R v McKinley & McKinley (2011) Prosecuted £17 million false invoice fraud.
R v Kogoro and others (2009) Prosecuted for the CPS Fraud Prosecution Service a sophisticated conspiracy to defraud senior executives at Norwich Union of their life assurance policies as well as an associated multi million pound fraud on Barclays Bank.
R v Wilkinson (2008) Prosecuted doctor for fraud on the NHS.
R v Wood (2007) Defended in case involving alleged long running tax fraud by haulage business.
R v Newton and Walker (2006-2007) Prosecuted serious and complex insurance fraud for the SFO relating to the defrauding of hundreds of small businesses predominantly in Northern Ireland.
Regulatory
RG v Secretary of State (2011) Tom represented the Secretary of State in a Care Standards Appeal in a hearing relating to a care worker who made allegedly false allegations of rape against a teenage boy.
JL v Secretary of State (2010) Represented the Secretary of State in a Care Standards Appeal relating to misrepresentations made in relation to employment history by applicant who intended to work with children.
JVS v Secretary of State (2008) Represented the Secretary of State in a Care Standards Tribunal in Appeal hearing relating to allegations of rape and indecent assault on a severely autistic woman.
Police Law
The London Borough of Lewisham v D & Others (2010) [2010] EWHC 1238 and 1239 (Fam) Appeared on behalf of the police in two separate High Court applications relating to the use of and disclosure of DNA between family and criminal proceedings and vice versa.
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