Jane Greenhalgh

R v Kulwant Hare (2024) – Southwark Crown Court
Defended Kulwant Hare in a multi-million-pound HMRC prosecution for alcohol excise duty evasion and VAT fraud at Southwark Crown Court relating to events between a period of September 2009 and December 2010 when those involved in the infamous “Eastenders” cash and carry, in East London, were said to have been responsible for an Excise fraud in the sum of approximately £22 million.

The proceedings against Mr Kulwant Hare were originally initiated in 2020 but after extensive “fitness to plead/stand trial submissions” over two years, the defendant was found unfit to stand trial. After a six-week trial, the jury found that he had been responsible for the acts alleged.

He was given an Absolute Discharge and no proceedings therefore followed pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, nor any applications for director disqualification. Open Media Link

R v Jacek Troc (2024) – Birmingham Crown Court – Defended the first defendant, the alleged mastermind, in a multi—handed cigarette duty evasion conspiracy where it was alleged that the defendants were concealing cigarettes in furniture imported from Poland.
The cigarettes were then further distributed by a large Organised Crime Group in Birmingham.
The case was prosecuted by a Kings Counsel and junior.

R v Jonathan Pickford (2019) – Birmingham Crown Court. Defended in an agricultural fraud, where a family of farmers were charged with fraudulently injecting their cattle with Tuberculosis-like reactor material in order to gain compensation from DEFRA. The preparation for this trial involved conferences with leading experts in this field and distilling their complex reports to ensure they were capable of presentation before the jury. On the first day of trial the prosecution indicated they would take pleas from the first defendant, having seen the defence reports showing the weaknesses in their case. The case was dropped then against the defendant.

R v Muhammad Babar Bashir et al (2018/19) – Manchester Crown Court – Leading Junior in a Home Office prosecution instructed by the CPS Fraud Unit in Manchester. Secured convictions in a complex case involving the manipulation of the Tier 4 rules system which allows non-EEA residents to come to the UK and study. Here the colleges were sham colleges, designed to sell their student places without any intention of proving an education and to profit financially as a consequence. The trial lasted five months and two defendants were convicted, one having earlier pleaded guilty.

R v Callum Clay (2018) – Defended in a complex trading standards case where it was alleged that the defendants had conned business customers into agreeing to business rates re-evaluations. The defendants would use telesales to generate business, allegedly targeting the vulnerable and those who could not understand English very well. They were convicted but the judge remarked on sentence that they were naïve and hardly experienced criminals.

R v Abid Hussain (2015) – Preston Crown Court. Defended the main defendant in a complex mortgage fraud involving solicitors and financial advisors.

R V Geoffrey Auston – (2014) – Teeside Crown Court. Defended in a highly complex mining fraud and POCA.

R v Walton (2014) – Teesside Crown Court. Defending female client charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in a highly complex case of alleged fraudulent applications for government grants. All charges dropped at trial.

R v Riaz Mohammed (2024/2025) – Birmingham Crown Court – Defended in multi-handed class A drugs conspiracy trial lasting 4 months.

The defendant was alleged to be part of a large, organised crime group distributing massive amounts of heroin and cocaine across Birmingham and it was prosecuted by both a KC and junior.

The case involved legal arguments in respect of exclusion of evidence, matters of disclosure, bad character and an application to discharge the jury.

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R v Robert Holden (2024) – Bradford Crown Court – High profile case of defending a Tory councillor charged with voyeurism and computer misuse charges. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0gk0x5rxwo    https://www.cps.gov.uk/yorkshire-and-humberside/news/calderdale-ex-councillor-jailed-secretly-filming-32-victims

R v Peter Holland (2023) – Manchester Crown Court – Defended in a lengthy and complex multi-handed drugs and firearms conspiracy. An application of no case to answer was successfully upheld in respect of the conspiracy to possess firearms charge.

R v Alan Cumming – Manchester Crown Court (2022 – 2024) – Defended in the longest ever running criminal trial, lasting 23 months, involving the largest ever drug smuggling operation.

The organised crime group were importing drugs from Europe, concealed in lorries containing “cover loads” of fruit, vegetables and cream and distributing the drugs across the UK.

It was said to be a billion-pound operation involving the importation of tonnes of drugs over 3 years described as “unprecedented and on an industrial scale”.

The case involved complex legal arguments and submissions, particularly on sentence.

The defendant was convicted and sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment.

Leave to appeal both the conviction and sentence have been sought. Media Link

R v Gareth Jones (2022) – Caernarvon Crown Court – Defended in a Class A drugs and child trafficking case. Media Link

R v Philip Haigh (2018) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in a serious case of multiple armed robberies of taxi drivers. The defendant was lightly convicted and clearly had been ‘set up’ by a man who had asked to borrow his phone and booked the taxi in the defendant’s name. The police then charged the defendant with this robbery and all other like robberies in the preceding month. He was acquitted of all offences.

R v Benson (Feb 2017) – Kingston Crown Court. Successfully defended in a National Crime Agency undercover operation involving a conspiracy to supply class A drugs in central London. The defendant, a prominent member of the Nigerian community in London, was acquitted at Kingston Crown Court. Jane was instructed by Ashmans solicitors.

R v Szirbuly (2012) – Manchester Crown Court. Defending Hungarian client charged with conspiracy to facilitate immigration by entering into a ‘sham marriage’.

R v Stuart Graham (2014) – Sheffield Crown Court. Defending in a large scale conspiracy to import Class a drugs involving the National Crime Agency.

R v Nathan Halton (2012) – Minshull Street Crown Court. Instructed to defend in a case of child cruelty involving serious non-accidental injuries suffered by an 8 week old baby.

R v Clifton Cameron (2012) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in a gangland kidnapping, blackmail and torture case.

R v Emma Noack (2010) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in a trial, and subsequent re-trial, in a £2.5 million drug importation through Manchester Airport.

R v Morsal Mohammed Naim (2025) – Manchester Crown Court – Defended an Afghan woman charged with murdering her two-year-old daughter. It was alleged that that the defendant shook her child causing a hypoxic brain injury. Media Link

R v Brandon White (2023) – Manchester Crown Court – Defended in a multi-handed murder case where it was alleged that a group of men had attacked a man in his own home. The defendant was acquitted. Media Link

R v Colin Kaler et al (2014) – Central Criminal Court. Defended in a high profile multi-handed Manslaughter case involving G4S and the deportation of Jimmy Mubenga.

R v Rumaal Ingram (2012) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in multi-handed gang murder case.

R v Mark Postles (2012) – Nottingham Crown Court. Junior Counsel for the Defendant. Murder and Dismemberment case where there were complex arguments on Diminished Responsibility.

R v Dawn Chadwick (2012) – Manchester Crown Court. Instructed to defend a woman charged with supplying a noxious substance to her sister-in-law to bring about an abortion, causing the woman to die.

R v Jamie Smith (2011) – Manchester Crown Court. Junior Counsel for the Defendant. Murder case which involved complex hearsay arguments in a voire dire where none of the witnesses would attend court to give evidence.

R v Colin Joyce, Lee Amos, Aaron Campbell, Narada Williams, Ricardo Williams, Hassan Shah, Aaron Alexander, Kyle Wint, Ricci Moss and Tyler Mullings (2009) – Liverpool Crown Court. Junior Counsel in a 6 month ‘Gooch Gang’ gangland murder case.

R v CT (2025) – Manchester Crown Court – Defended man charged with a campaign of rape and controlling and coercive behaviour in respect of his partner. Issues of modern slavery and human trafficking arose.

R v Kieran Johnson (2023) – Central Criminal Court – Defended in a male rape case.  Media Link

R v Andrew Bell (2022) – Mold Crown Court – Defended in an historic male rape case. Media Link

R v Reynhard Sinaga (2019/20) – Manchester Crown Court. Junior for the defence over the course of three trials in the largest rape prosecution in UK legal history. For that reason, the case has been reported internationally and is influencing Government policy on the classification of the drug GHB. Reynhard Sinaga was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of 159 counts of sexual offences against 48 different men. Jane also represented this client in the Attorney-General reference proceedings, when the Crown failed in their submission that the client should have been made the subject of a Whole Life Order.

R v Robert Girdlestone (2018) Defended a 76 year old in the trial and then retrial of a man charged with raping and abusing his family, together with his by now deceased wife. Cross-examined both daughters. Hung jury in the first trial, but convicted in the retrial and sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.

R v Floyd et al (2015) – Leeds Crown Court. Defended in a gangland burglary and rape case.

R v Halloufy (2015) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in a rape case where the events were captured on CCTV.

R v Stephen Slotwiner (2012) – Manchester Crown Court. Defended in a historic sex offender case.

Jane has experience in representing clients at inquests. For case examples, head to the Inquests section below.

Re: Dawn Chadwick (2014) – Manchester Coroners’ Court. Representing Dawn Chadwick in a high-profile Inquest involving the death of a woman from the consumption of vinegar to bring about an abortion.