Tony
Stanford
Tony is a highly regarded practitioner who has a wide breadth of experience of cases involving serious crime.
Member of the ALAW Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare (Midlands Circuit)
Tony
Stanford
Tony is a highly regarded practitioner in cases involving serious crime. He acts for both the prosecution and defence and for HM personnel in Courts Martial cases. He is a Rape and Serious Sexual Offences prosecutor.
Tony also undertakes Special Educational Needs Cases.
Tony has advised on appeal matters for the Capital Cases Charitable Trust, an organization that represents those on Death Row or facing long prison sentences in the Caribbean Commonwealth. Tony undertakes private work advising on the prospects of overturning convictions and sentences where he was not Counsel at the first instance.
Outside law Tony trains Brazilian Jujitsu. He is the co-director of a Limited Company that manages and invests in property.
Recent cases
Murder and Manslaughter
Operation Spindle – Murder defence (2024)
Operation Hyphen- Manslaughter (2022)
Operation Horseradish – Murder
R v JW- successful defence of Defendant charged with 10 Counts of Attempted murder by running them over with his car (2023)
R v Gary Stephens- defence of a man whose Cane Corsa cross killed his brother. (2024)
Drugs
Operation Vitalise (2024) prosecution of 36 defendants for drug dealing in Leicester
R v JS –defence -large scale drug dealing
Rape and sexual offences
R V MH –defence of boyfriend charged with numerous rapes of girlfriend who claimed he drugged her with ketamine
R v DA – Defence of man charged with grooming many children in Derby and raping and sexually exploiting them
R v ND – defence of man charged with grooming and rape (2024)
R v SB –defence of soldier for rape
R v SS – prosecution of D charged with rapes and sexual assaults against multiple children
R v SC – prosecution of defendant for multiple counts of sexual assault against two sisters
R v SR – prosecution of defendant for sexual offences against his sister beginning in 1964
R v JR- prosecution of defendant for sexually abusing his daughters aged 5 and 6 at the time.
R v RM (2013) (Defence)
Defence of a director of company charged with money laundering and defrauding visa applicants.
R v S (2013) (Defence)
Defence of a man charged with rape and assaults on female partners.
R v K (2013)
Trial concerning allegations of Sexual assaults on several children by a young man with learning difficulties.
R v Smith, Fletcher and Hall (2012) (Prosecution)
Prosecution of a gang responsible for a series of armed robberies, stabbings and aggravated burglaries.
R v S and others (2012)
Conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs arising out of Operations Atlanta and Ridion.
R v Brown (2012)
Attempted rape, conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to commit sexual assaults; the case concerned a campaign of night time attacks, carried out on women, in North London.
R v G and others (2011)
Lead junior in a three month trial at Leeds Crown Court. Charges concerned section 9 Of the Fraud Act, carrying on a business for a fraudulent purpose.
R v Gonclaves (2011)
Lead junior in murder and attempted murder trial.
R v Okwu-Brewis and others (2010)
Armed robbery and firearms trial.
R v M and others (2010)
Firearms and robbery trial involving South London Gang members.
R v Trotman (2010) (Prosecution)
Prosecution of the then oldest person in the UK to be the subject of an ASBO, for a campaign of harassment and assault against his neighbours.
R v M and others (2009)
Trial of 13 year old charged with sexual assault on another boy at cadet camp.
R v H and others
A series of trials involving the defence of anti war protestors involving the EDO MBN arms factory campaign in Brighton.
R v A
Lead junior in a multi-million pound conspiracy to import cocaine.
R v R
Lead junior in multi-million pound heroin importation trial.
R v Mark Worton (2011)
EWCA Crim 3145. Court of Appeal: Robbery, kidnapping and burglary, consecutive sentences.
R v Abdulla (2011)
EWCA Crim 2488. Court of Appeal: Sentencing in drugs cases.
R v Lawson (2010)
Court of Appeal: 2 Cr.App.R.(S.) 71; Sentencing in breach of trust and fraud cases.
R v Fenn-Smith (2010)
EWCA Crim 1420. Court of Appeal: Failiure to apply Sentencing Guidelines Council’s Definitive Guideline for sentencing fraud.
R v Page and others (2005)
Court of Appeal: 2 Cr.App.R. (S.) 37; guideline case on the sentencing of shoplifters.
R v Fenn-Smith (2010)
EWCA Crim 1420. Court of Appeal: Failiure to apply Sentencing Guidelines Council’s Definitive Guideline for sentencing fraud.
