Christopher Johnston
picture_as_pdf Year of Call:
1983
Notable Cases
R v B 2018
Snaresbrook CC. Successfully defended a warehouseman in £8m value drugs importation from Holland investigated by The Serious and Organised Crime Command. Operations Ultra, Bush
R v M 2018
Successfully defended a man at The Central Criminal Court accused of wounding his brother with intent to cause GBH when he drove his truck onto the pavement at the victim.
R v K 2018
Operation Cave, Wood Green CC, defended in a £1m tobacco and alcohol duty evasion organised crime case.
R v O 2017
Operation Pileated, Cambridge CC Represented a defendant in a courier fraud conspiracy involving multiple elderly victims.
R v S 2017
Operation Limit, Leicester CC. defended in an allegation of the supply of “Skorpion” machine gun and ammunition as part of organised crime group.
R v K 2017
Nottingham CC, Operation Feast & Zephyr. Lead defence counsel in industrial scale cocaine supply from London to Northampton.
R v S 2017
Leicester CC. Represented a man accused of serial rape and sexual offences on young boys in 1980s.
R v S 2017
Leicester CC. Represented a male accused of serious sexual assault by penetration of a resident in a special needs care home.
R v A
Snaresbrook CC. Prosecuted a teenage male for rape of 10 year-old sister.
R v B 2015
Represented the alleged leader of gang of five men responsible for the kidnap, false imprisonment and torture of two separate victims and subsequent blackmail of the families.
R v S 2015
Defended one of five men accused of largest haul of ram -raid burglaries of rural banks in East Anglia.
R v N 2015
Successfully defended man accused of multiple rape counts.
R v H 2015
Prosecuted a case of familial sexual allegations dating back to 1965.
R v G 2015
Represented the man known as the “night stalker” in his appeal against conviction for several rapes of elderly people in their homes.
R v R 2014
Represented man accused revenge slashing of former police officer investigating licensed taxi offences.
R v T 2015
Successfully prosecuted a leader of a gang of men who had embarked upon a campaign of rape and sexual offences towards a 12-16 year old girl in Bucks in 2004-13.
R v M 2013
£1.5 m VAT Evasion Prosecution Central CC for HMRC.
R v W 2012/13
Leading defence counsel in the largest ever Flying Squad Bank Robbery Operation involving over 12 armed bank robberies spanning 10 years.
R v H 2013
Successfully defended one of the three acquitted defendants out of ten Charlton FC fans accused of racist violence.
R v K 2013
Defended man in multi handed trial in which he was accused of firearm possession in large Trident case.
R v T 2013
Defence counsel in successful defence of man accused of domestic violence featuring all the accused’s children supporting his “battered wife”.
R v M 2013
Successfully represented woman accused of stabbing her former boyfriend in the street.
R v C 2012
Defence counsel in multi handed car ringing/burglary case in Maidstone CC.
R V A 2012
Central CC. Successfully defended when led by QC man accused of murdering drugs rival with shotgun.
R v M 2010
Conducted an appeal against conviction before full Court of Appeal in the case of an appellant who had been convicted of throwing acid over barristers appearing against him in a High Court action he was bringing. High Court barrister burned in courtroom acid attack.
R v M 2010
Defended an alleged gang member accused of having a sawn off shotgun which was alleged to have been used to threaten others.
R v G and others 2008
Represented a defendant who was acquitted of his part in a murder and further stabbing of another victim in an alleged racist gang attack in the Isle of Sheppey.
R v A 2009
Familial historic sexual assault.
R v W 2007
Leading defence counsel for one member of a cash-in-transit robbery gang. K.B., the leader of said gang, was a notorious criminal. The trial lasted three months and was conducted under the tightest security ever witnessed in an English court.
R v A 2007
Representing as leading counsel one female member of a gang said to have committed the largest alleged fraud of its time on a health authority: NHS fraudsters jailed (From News Shopper).
R v H 2010
Sexual assaults on children within a church congregation.
R v N 2010
Random slashing of stranger giving rise to IPP sentence.
R v S and others 2010
An internal fraud of a national bread manufacturer by managers worth £300k.
2016
Instructed for the Finance Officer of a business who along with others is accused of a £1.5m fraud on State/ local authority agencies in a trial listed for 2016.
Reported Cases
R v Pommel (1995) 2 Cr. App. R R v. Jason Graham [2007] EWCA Crim 1499
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association South Eastern Circuit
