Honor regularly defends and prosecutes in the Crown Court and Youth Court. She is instructed in a broad range of criminal matters. This includes violence, dishonesty, drugs and driving cases on both a public and privately funded basis. Honor also has experience in appellate work – see tab below.
Honor acts for both for requested persons and judicial authorities in extradition proceedings. Honor spent 12 months on secondment to the CPS Extradition Unit and appeared as sole counsel before Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the Administrative Court in bail appeals, renewal hearings and substantive appeals. She also was involved in the Supreme Court case of El-Khouri v USA. Honor was a reviewing lawyer in respect of a large number of Part 1 cases and has in-depth knowledge and experience in a range of issues in these cases.
Honor has represented registrants and regulators in front of the Fitness to Practice Committee at both substantive and non-substantive hearings.
Prior to joining Chambers, Honor worked at the legal department of CAIWU, a trade union for cleaners. Honor represented members in employment tribunal cases and in disciplinary and grievance hearings.
Honor joined Chambers after successful completion of her 12-month pupillage.
R v BN and another (Isleworth Crown Court) – January 2024. Honor secured the unanimous acquittal of a police officer charged with two offences: i) assault occasioning actual bodily harm on a joint enterprise basis and ii) perverting the course of justice. The prosecution alleged that the police officer and another attacked a man with sticks and then attempted to pervert the course of justice by intimidating a witness. The jury found Honor’s client not guilty and he maintained his good name.
R v FK – Lewes Crown Court (2023) In these POCA proceedings, on the basis of Honor’s skeleton argument, the Crown conceded the assumptions (totalling £150,000) on the basis that they were incorrect and there would be a serious risk of injustice.
R v MS – Court of Appeal (2023) EWCA Crim 391 [2023] Honor successfully appealed a sentence on the grounds of totality and that time spent on remand had not been taken into account. Honor argued that the custodial term of the suspended sentence order was manifestly excessive and that the sentence did not take into account the time served on remand. The Court of Appeal agreed and quashed the suspended sentence order and re-sentenced him to a short custodial sentence which was deemed served.
R v AO – Central Criminal Court sitting at Holborn (2023) Honor secured an acquittal for her client charged with possession of a knife and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on the basis of self-defence.
R v HP – Wood Green Crown Court (2023) Honor secured acquittal for her client charged with burglary. The defendant’s fingerprints were found at the scene of the crime, a barber shop. Honor also successfully resisted a bad character application of other burglaries on the basis that it was being used to bolster a weak case.
R v – Hove Crown Court (2023) Honor, representing the prosecution, secured a conviction in this GBH case.
R v VA and others – Maidstone Crown Court (2022) Junior counsel in multi-handed VAT fraud worth over £2 million.
R v FK – Lewes Crown Court (2022) Junior counsel in Modern Slavery Trial.
R v RA – Court of Appeal (2022) Honor successfully appealed an indefinite restraining order imposed on her client in favour of his daughter. The original order was quashed. A new restraining order was imposed which was limited in duration and which permitted contact the Family Court allowed.
R v MM Cambridge Crown Court (2022) Honor secured a unanimous acquittal of her client charged with possession with intent to supply cannabis in prison.
R v AR Harrow Crown Court (2022) Honor successfully appealed a 6 months detention and training order sentence imposed on a youth. The sentence was replaced with a suspended sentence order.
R V CG – Willesden Magistrates’ Court (2021) CG was charged with driving on the hard shoulder of the motorway. Honor secured CG’s acquittal on the basis that he had only stopped due to an emergency.
R v MU Stratford Magistrates’ Court (2021) MU was charged with driving whilst under the influence of drugs. Due to submissions made by Honor as to the quality of the evidence, the case was dropped on the day of trial.
R v JT – Stratford Magistrates’ Court (2021) JT faced two charges of assault on an emergency worker. Honor made a successful submission of no case to answer to one charge, resulting in the first charge of assault being dropped. After extensive cross-examination of the officers, JT was acquitted of the second charge of assault.
R v LP – Romford Magistrates’ Court (2021) LP was charged with assault by beating. At the close of the Prosecution case, Honor made a successful submission of no case to answer. The case was dropped against LP before he gave evidence.
R v AY – Highbury Magistrates’ Court (2021) AY faced a charge of assault on an emergency worker. After Honor’s examination in chief of AY and extensive use of the body-worn footage, AY was acquitted on the basis that any contact with the officer was a mistake.
Honor has also represented applicants in public inquiries before the Traffic Commissioner whose vehicles have been seized under the provisions of the 1995 and 2001 Regulations for alleged breach of cabotage regulations.
HCPC v MVDM – Fitness to Practice Substantive Hearing (2025): Honor’s client was found not to be impaired as a result of a caution for shoplifting. All other dishonesty allegations were found to be not proven.
SWE v YW – Fitness to Practice Substantive Hearing (2025): Honor represented a social worker in fitness to practice proceedings who admitted renting a flat to her service user. The panel found not proven the allegation that she had done this to exploit the client but did find that there was a conflict of interest. SWE sought a suspension order but Honor persuaded the panel that a warning was the most appropriate sanction.
SWE v MM – Fitness to Practice Substantive Hearing (2025): Honor represented MM on a pro-bono basis and secured the discontinuance of fitness to practice proceedings on the basis of insufficient evidence. The proceedings involved allegations of borrowing money from a service user.
NMC v FM – Fitness to Practice Substantive Hearing (2023): Honor represented the NMC in this case involving charges of lack of competence. The majority of the charges were found proved, impairment was found and the proposed sanction was imposed. Honor successfully resisted an application for no case to answer and abuse of process.
NMC V AS – Fitness to Practice Interim Order Hearing (2023): Honor represented the midwife in this interim order hearing. Honor persuaded the Fitness to Practice Committee to impose an interim COPO that allowed the midwife to still work as an agency worker.
Da Cunha Mos v Portugal [2025] EWHC 1049 (Admin): Successfully represented the Respondent Judicial Authority in this appeal against extradition on the grounds of Article 8 ECHR and particularly the issue of delay. The appeal was dismissed. Reported here
Mihai Toma v Romania [2025] EWHC 124 (Admin): Successfully represented the Judicial Authority who were the Respondent in this Article 8 ECHR appeal which was dismissed.
El-Khouri v USA [2025] UKSC 3: Honor was involved in this appeal to the Supreme Court dealing with issues of dual criminality and extra-territoriality whilst on secondment to the CPS Extradition Unit.
Romania v MC and TC: Westminster Magistrates’ Court (2022) Honor represented one of the RP’s in a case involving an issue of whether the offence for which the RP was being sought was in fact unconstitutional and therefore invalidated the warrant.
Hungary v AR: Westminster Magistrates’ Court (2022) Honor represented the RP involving issues of s.20 and article 8.
Honor has experience in appellate work both in criminal and extradition cases.
Da Cunha Mos v Portugal [2025] EWHC 1049 (Admin)
Successfully represented the Respondent Judicial Authority in this appeal against extradition on the grounds of Article 8 ECHR and particularly the issue of delay. The appeal was dismissed. Reported here
El-Khouri v USA [2025] UKSC 3
Honor was involved in this appeal to the Supreme Court dealing with issues of dual criminality and extra-territoriality whilst on secondment to the CPS Extradition Unit. Reported here
Mihai Toma v Romania [2025] EWHC 124 (Admin)
Successfully represented the Judicial Authority who were the Respondent in this Article 8 ECHR appeal which was dismissed. Reported here
R v Mario Salvato [2023] EWCA Crim 391
Successfully appealed the sentence imposed by the Crown Court on the basis that the sentence was manifestly excessive because it failed to take totality into account in accordance with the Sentencing Council guideline and the imposition of a suspended sentence of imprisonment was wrong in principle, because given the time he had served on remand in custody, it punished the appellant twice. here
R v RA (2022) Unreported
Honor successfully appealed an indefinite restraining order imposed on her client in favour of his daughter, in the Court of Appeal. The Court quashed the original order and imposed a new restraining order which was limited in duration and which permitted contact the Family Court allowed.
BPTC, City Law School – 2020
GDL, City Law School – 2019
Classics (BA), University of Oxford – 2017