Nicola Devas

Practice
Nicola Devas has considerable experience in all areas of criminal law and has specialised in crime throughout her career, spanning from 1983 to date.  Initially qualifying as a Solicitor, she spent her early career in private practice, co-founding her own practice 1994 and gaining her Higher Rights qualifications in 1997. This background gives her an insight into the challenges facing solicitors, allowing her to empathise and provide a supportive service to those instructing. Her practice includes a wide range of serious criminal offences both defending and prosecuting.
 
She has been instructed in cases involving fraud, dishonesty, serious violence, firearms, death by dangerous driving, sexual assault and rape (particularly involving child and young witnesses) and serious drug offences. She has also acted as junior counsel both to prosecute and defend cases involving murder. Her regulatory experience includes trading standards prosecutions, as well as the more usual areas such as licensing, disciplinary hearings. 

Recent Cases

R –v- Rumbold  2009
Appeared at Trial for Defendant charged with a numerous rapes and inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity.

R –v- Watling  2009
Prosecuted multiple S.18 wounding with intent charges.

R –v- Barker  2008
Appeared as junior counsel in the defence of an elderly male charged with murder.

R –v- Ayeva  2009
Instructed to defend a male charged with sexual assault on a female.

R – v-   Quereshi  2008
Prosecuted a taxi driver charged with sexually assaulting a female passenger

R –v- Hanks  2009
Instructed to defend a female charged with offences of false imprisonment, robbery and aggravated burglary.

R .v. Williams 2008
Successfully defended one of 2 males charged with a serious, life threatening  S.18 wounding

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