Personal Injury
Raj works for both Claimants and Defendants in all areas of Personal Injury including employers’ liability, public liability, road traffic and criminal injuries compensation authority cases. He has a special interest in hand arm vibration syndrome, noise induced hearing loss and industrial disease cases. He also has a particular interest in sports related accidents and injuries sustained in the course of sporting events. He is regularly instructed in trade union cases and is happy to work under conditional fee agreements where appropriate. Raj has also attended inquest hearings in the Coroner’s Court.
Clinical Neglience
Raj has been instructed in a variety of clinical negligence claims ranging from late/mistaken diagnosis to surgical errors. He is a member of AVMA.
Police Work
Raj is regularly instructed by the Metropolitan Police in civil actions involving allegations of assault, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. He has advised in a cases involving mental health issues of which he has a special interest. He has also been instructed in inquests, applications for ASBO’s, sexual offences prevention orders, closure orders and firearms appeals for the Metropolitan Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary. Raj has extensive experience in Proceeds of Crime Act applications and confiscation. Raj has also been instructed in police discipline hearings.
Raj is recommended by the Legal 500 within the cateogry of Regulatory and Discipline Law (incorporating Police Law).
Fraud and Regulatory Work
Raj has done considerable work for HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. He has successfully prosecuted fraudulent tax credit claims made over the internet, cases involving theft by employees from the Revenue, money laundering, and large and small drug importations.
General Crime
Raj has prosecuted and defended in criminal cases involving multiple rape, child cruelty, attempted murder, death by dangerous driving, serious violence and violent disorder. He is a Grade 3 prosecutor on the London and South East Circuit and has prosecuted for many CPS areas including Bedfordshire, Thames Valley and Northamptonshire.
Commercial
Raj has been instructed in a variety of contract cases involving insurance law and general commercial disputes.
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Cases
Demico v (1) Transco (Nottingham City Council). Represented a school girl injured in a highways accident involving statutory undertakers and the highways act.
Deane v Marlon King. Successful claim involving an assault by a premiership footballer on a fellow player during a football match.
R v Bamidele Matanmi (2005-2006) (prosecuted for the Revenue in one of the first fraudulent tax credit prosecutions made over the internet).
R v Davies (and others) (2004) Prosecuted a five handed conspiracy to cheat the Revenue case involving an employee of the Revenue.
R v Horn, Cook and others (2001) Led by leading junior counsel in a multi-million pound customs evasion case involving 12 defendants.
R v Miller and others (2004) Successfully defended a multi-handed conspiracy to supply drugs case in the Northamptonshire area.
Ward v Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis (2001)(advised in a case that eventually was decided in the House of Lords involving a warrant obtained and executed under the Mental health Act 1983).
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