Notable Cases
R v M N – Manchester Crown Court
Ronan Maguire represented Mr N who was tried for People Trafficking from Eastern Europe. Greater Manchester Police said of the case that it was one of the ‘biggest human trafficking investigations the force had ever carried out’.
R v L – Manchester Crown Court
Ronan Maguire represented Mr L who was charged with the murder of an ex- girlfriend found strangled in her home. This was a case fought tirelessly on the evidence of experts. An expert in Cell Site evidence placed the client’s phone at the scene of the crime at the...
R v A C ‘ Disability Cheat is Caught… Doing a Triathlon’
Maguires represented Mr C who was charged with benefit fraud. The victim of a stroke several years earlier, our client was claiming disability living allowance at the high rate at a time that he was video recorded undertaking a Tri-Athlon and engaging manual labour....
R v OB – Film Tax Credit Fraud at Southwark Crown Court
Ronan Maguire defended a family man accused of a £4 million pound Tax Fraud alleging the making of a bogus film called ‘A Landscape of Lies’. In a case that was widely reported, our client was 1 of 2 out of the 5 defendants to be acquitted of the film tax credit...
Terrorism Investigation
Mr A K & Mr S K – In April 2009 details of operation Pathway, a top-secret Anti-Terrorism investigation was exposed to the press outside Downing Street by Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism Police Officer...
R v B – Conviction for Murder overturned
In 2012 B was convicted with her daughter of murdering her husband, Don Banfield. He was missing for nearly a decade before the case was treated as suspicious. When it was discovered that B had fraudulently claimed his private pension within days of his disappearance,...
Ronan Maguire’s Inclusion in the Irish Post Legal50
Maguires Solicitors are proud to announce Ronan Maguire’s inclusion in the Irish Post Legal50, part of The Irish Post In Business 2013 guide to some of the most innovative and successful Irish people in Britain today. This publication will acknowledge the contribution...
R v K Southwark Crown Court, Confiscation Proceedings
Maguires were recently instructed to represent K in Confiscation Proceedings. During the course of the case, the benefit figure represented the largest single Confiscation Order sought in British legal history, having increased by £360 million, from an initial amount...