James Doyle

R v A – (Conspiracy to commit GBH – 2-month trial) Warwick CC (2023)

R v B – (Possession of firearm with intent to endanger life) Warwick CC (2023)

R v A – (Attempted Murder – possession of firearm) Birmingham CC (2024)

R v M – (Possession of firearm/assassin’s kit with intent to endanger life) Croydon CC (2024)

R v N – (Attempted Murder) – Cardiff CC (2025)

Instructed: R v E – (Possession of firearm with intent to endanger life) Birmingham CC (October 2025 – 4-week trial)

R v C – (travelling community holding workers in conditions of slavery and servitude – 3-month trial – leading junior) Cardiff CC

R v F – (terrorist offences – defense of MDS) Birmingham CC (2024)

R v F – (prostitution – conditions of servitude) Birmingham CC (2025)

R v S – (taxi driver rape) Birmingham CC (2022)

R v K – (stranger rape) Ipswich CC (2024)

R v A – (campaign of rape) Aylesbury CC (2024)

R v F – (domestic violence rape) Reading CC (2025)

R v T – (male on male rape) Stafford CC (2025)

R v H – (sexual activity with child -grooming) Bradford CC (2025)

R v S – (sexual activity with a child aged 14-15 – grooming -sexual intercourse) Cardiff CC (2025)

Instructed: R v B – (campaign of rape) Exeter CC (October 2025)

James has been instructed across the full spectrum of fraudulent activity, including price-fixing, tax evasion, VAT carousel/missing trader schemes, insurance fraud, art fraud, long firm fraud, boiler room operations, red diesel offences, mortgage fraud, e-commerce scams, and other commercial frauds.

Notably, James represented a director of a multinational pharmaceutical company charged with price-fixing in what was then the largest SFO prosecution ever litigated. He has specific expertise in money laundering offences and is fully conversant with the relevant regulatory regime. At Guildford Crown Court, he secured the acquittal of a well-known professional poker player accused of multi-million-pound money laundering. He has also acted in some of the UK’s largest counterfeiting and cannabis production cases.

James has represented prominent individuals in the Northeast of England in environmental law matters. His experience in homicide cases is extensive, including the successful defence of a Romanian chess champion acquitted at the Central Criminal Court. He was also instructed in one of the first major human exploitation cases brought under the Modern Slavery Act – a case which attracted national media coverage.

His instructions extend to serious sexual offences, firearms cases, waste disposal prosecutions, and large-scale drug conspiracies. Having appeared in almost every Crown Court across England and Wales, James’s breadth of experience consistently enables him to achieve positive outcomes for his clients.

R v T – (duty evasion fraud) Southwark CC (2022)

R v L – (conspiracy to steal high value motor vehicles/money laundering) Derby CC (2022- 2023)

R v S – (company fraud – substantial confiscation proceedings) Nottingham CC (2023-2024)

R v B – (multi-million-pound money laundering) Kingston CC (2024)

R v T – (duty evasion fraud) Birmingham CC (2024)

R v H – (trademark fraud) Snaresbrook CC (2024) R v A – (duty evasion fraud) Reading CC (2024)

R v S – (tax evasion fraud/money laundering through multi-million-pound property empire) Cardiff CC (2025)

R v A – (insurance fraud in relation to Wolverhampton City Council) Wolverhampton CC (2025)

Instructed: R v S – (banking fraud – crypto currency money laundering) Southwark CC (January 2027)

R v C – (misconduct in public office – probation officer) Stafford CC (2024)

R v G – (misconduct in public office – prison officer) Bristol CC (2025)