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Roger Vaughan Griffiths (1983)
Email: rgriffiths@temple-chambers.co.uk
Areas of Practice :
Criminal Law
Description:
Specialist Criminal Law practitioner, and Head of the Criminal Team at Temple Chambers.
Roger Griffiths specialises in the prosecution of complex drug conspiracies, and has extensive experience of all types of Criminal Law proceedings and offences, including murder and sexual offences.
He also deals with covert surveillance cases involving the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. He is often instructed in cases involving the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and regularly appears before the Court of Appeal, in particular in relation to matters concerning the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Roger Griffiths also acts as a legal adviser to police disciplinary panels.
Memberships:
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Criminal Bar Association
Wales and Chester Circuit
Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association
Awards:
Calcott Pryce Mooting Prize, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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Education:
Bar Final Examinations, Inns of Court School of Law (1983)
Ll.B. (Hons), University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1982)
Brynteg Comprehensive School, Bridgend
Cases:
R v Allpress and others [2009] EWCA Crim 8; [2009] 1 Lloyds LR (FC) 242: the impact of the House of Lords rulings on money launderers
R v Minu Pham [2008] EWCA Crim 3182
R v Richards [2008] EWCA Crim 1841: confiscation order made against an offender's associate was quashed. Orders had been made against both offender and associate in respect of the same property, but the associate had not received the beneficial interest in the property, despite the offender having transferred the legal title to him.
Operation Compass (2008): prosecution of a Vietnamese drugs gang for killing a worker who had lost a cannabis crop
Operation Reptile (2006): prosecution of 30 defendants for conspiracy to supply drugs involving Essex, the Midlands and Reading
Operation Ghana (2005): prosecution as leading junior of 20 defendants engaged in large scale heroin dealing on a housing estate
Operation Capsule (2003): prosecution of 23 defendants in a South Wales wide drugs conspiracy
R v Ireland [1998] AC 147, HL: assault by silent telephone calls
R v Cox [1991] Crim LR 276: successful exclusion of interview of defendant interviewed in the absence of an appropriate adult.
Lectures:
Roger Griffiths regularly lectures on the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Other:
Crown Prosecution Service List: Grade 4
Pupil Supervisor
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Temple Chambers Cardiff 32 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BA
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