Tim Forte

Year Called: 1994
Contact Email: tim.forte@dyerschambers.com
Specialisations: General crime

General Crime specialising in drugs, fraud and violence. Also lectures and advises on developments in criminal law.

Notable cases:
 
R v Mott CCA [2003] EWCA 3670 Crim - Junior alone in successful sentence appeal.

R v Mott - Led Junior in Multi-tonne Cannabis importation.

R v Staske CCA (No: 9907403 Z3) Re: Judicial intervention.

R v Trotman (Snr) - Kidnap: Prosecution sought to prove offence solely from reluctant victim's res gestae comments.

R v Trotman (Jnr) - Legal definition of airgun & adaptation in firearms legislation.

R v Antoniou - Importation of 100kg of heroin & 100kg of cannabis.

R v Corley No. 2 - Conspiracy re armed robbery of armoured truck.

R v Corley No. 1 - Conspiracy re armed robbery of 1+ million of banknote paper.

R v Adams - Historic fraud by insolvency practitioner.

R v Shih - $2 billion US Treasury bond fraud.

Recent cases:

R v A - Leading Junior in case involving Murder, Manslaughter and Robbery at the Central Criminal Court

R v B - Leading Junior in multi-million cigarette importation in Bristol.

R v W -  Led Junior in Operation Hobart conspiracy to traffic in 400 million of cocaine (RIPA, CIDA, intercept issues) involved 400+ CDs of English probe product and 17,000+ Colombian Telephone Intercepts.