Joshua Scouller

Experience

Josh has a busy criminal prcatice, regularly appearing in the Crown, Magistrates’, and Youth courts and the Court of Appeal. Josh has expertise in a wide range of areas including drugs matters, sexual offences, extradition and violent offences. Josh is a Grade 2 CPS Panel Advocate.

Josh has defended and prosecuted in a number of Crown Court trials dealing with matters such as threats to kill, grievous bodily harm, drugs, fraud, blackmail, robbery, weapons offences and theft.

Josh is a pro bono adviser at the Waterloo Legal Advice Service where he advises on a variety of issues including crime, housing, family, immigration and personal injury amongst other areas.

Notable Cases

Defence

• R v TF (Inner London Crown Court, 2019) – acquittal of man charged with false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
• R v SL (Wood Green Crown Court, 2019) – acquittal of woman charged with s.20 wounding.
• R v AH (Wood Green Crown Court, 2019) – acquittal of man charged with possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
• R v MR (Central Criminal Court, 2018) – acquittal of man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
• R v AN (Woolwich Crown Court, 2018) – acquittal of man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, possession of two knives and criminal damage.
• R v FE (Court of Appeal, 2017) – convictions of theft and fraud quashed on appeal.
• R v CM (Croydon Crown Court, 2017) – sentence from Magistrates’ court reduced from 16 months’ to 9 months’ imprisonment on appeal.
• R v RM (Harrow Crown Court, 2017) – acquittal of woman charged with affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
• R v RG (Court of Appeal, 2017) – successful appeal against sentence for robbery case. Sentence reduced from 6 to 5 years.
• R v KL (Central Criminal Court, 2017) – acquittal of man charged with threats to kill.
• R v LF (Snaresbrook Crown Court, 2017) – acquittal of man charged with threats to kill.
• R v KH (Woolwich Crown Court, 2017) – acquittal of man charged with possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply.
• R v AF (Isleworth Crown Court, 2017) – acquittal of man charged with possessing false identity document with             intent.
• R v ND (Woolwich Crown Court, 2016) – acquittal of man charged with witness intimidation.
• R v AC (Woolwich Crown Court, 2016) – acquittal of man charged with threatening with bladed article.
• R v DL (Court of Appeal, 2016) – appeal against sentence for cultivating cannabis.
• R v BP (Woolwich Crown Court, 2016) – acquittal of man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
• R v AS (Aylesbury Crown Court, 2016) – acquittal of man charged with threats to kill.
• R v DB – acquittal of youth charged with racially aggravated assault.
• R v GM – obtained fine and contingent destruction order for client whose dog bit a young woman on the face leaving a serious injury.

Prosecution

• R v TM (Southwark Crown Court, 2018) – secured conviction of man charged with numerous commercial burglaries.
• R v JD, PB & CM (Peterborough Crown Court, 2017) – conviction of three men charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
• R v KB (Isleworth Crown Court, 2017) – trial of fact proved against man for two counts of exposure.
• R v IA (Woolwich Crown Court, 2016) – conviction of man charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
• R v DG (Wood Green Crown Court, 2016) – conviction of man charged with robbery and possessing bladed article.
• R v AD (Harrow Crown Court, 2015) – conviction of man charged with blackmail of vulnerable victim.

Education

• University of Manchester, History
• BPP Law School, BPTC
• BPP Law School, GDL

Awards, Scholarships and Memberships

• Ann Goddard Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• Prince of Wales Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• BPP Manchester Moot Winner
• GDL Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• Cohen Scholarship, BPP Law School
• CPS Panel Advocate Grade 2
• Criminal Bar Association

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