Nicholas Cotter

Experience
Nick Cotter is a specialist advocate and continues to attract significant plaudits from professional clients.

He has built a reputation as a highly effective and result driven trial advocate who both defends and prosecutes in his own right and as Junior Counsel on a wide ambit of criminal and quasi-criminal matters. The bulk of his practice centres on serious crime however over the last few years he has developed his interest and practice in quasi-criminal matters and as such now offers a wide spectrum of legal services to those whom instruct him.

Mr Cotter’s practice experience ensures that he is well placed to advise in all areas of case preparation from both a defence and/or a prosecution point of view from initial investigation through to trial.

Notable Cases

Recent Fraud/ Asset Forfeiture/ MTIC matters

R v H
Instructed Junior Counsel for the Defence in £180 million VAT ‘Missing trader’ fraud, Croydon

R v P
Instructed Defence Counsel in relation to an alleged £65,000 false accounting matter.

R v P
Instructed Defence Counsel in an internet Conspiracy to defraud, Isleworth

R v H
Advice on money laundering prosecution, Maidstone

R v S
Instructed prosecutor in company fraud matter, Norwich

R v X
Instructed Defence Counsel in significant hidden assets POCA matter, Woolwich

R v X
Instructed Counsel in multimillion pound POCA matter, Portsmouth

Recent Violence/Organized crime

R v M
Instructed counsel in the largest 'gang' gun seizure in South London in 2010, Croydon

R v K
Instructed Counsel in drug importation case, Canterbury

R v X
Instructed Defence Counsel in a large conspiracy to kidnap matter, Peterborough

R v S
Instructed Counsel in a significant arson with intent to endanger life

R v B
Instructed Defence Counsel in murder trial, Winchester

R v B
Instructed Defence Counsel in Attempt murder/ s18, Woolwich

R v E
Instructed Defence Counsel in large scale Violent disorder, Woolwich

R v A
Instructed Defence Counsel in 'steamer' gang robbery matters, Blackfriars

R v S
Instructed Defence Counsel in organized high value jewelry robbery, Chichester

R v P
Large scale drugs conspiracy, Ipswich

R v S
Attempt murder, Cambridge

Recent instructions in other areas of crime

R v X
Instructed Defence Counsel in child cruelty case, Peterborough

R v R
Instructed Defence Counsel in child abuse matters, Woolwich

R v K
Instructed Defence Counsel in child sexual abuse matters, Norwich

R v X
Instructed Counsel in rape matter, East Anglia

R v Aylett
Instructed Defence Counsel in road rage violence, Court of Appeal, reported

R v C
Highly reported case involving the defence of a lorry driver accused of causing the death of an elderly lady at a crossing within the grounds of Luton airport.

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