For further information about these entities and DLA Piper's structure, please refer to the Legal Notices page of this website. R v D– Juvenile alleged to have killed two motorists by moving a road sign, case dismissed at the close of the prosecution case. R v JD – Secured the acquittal of a professional boxer after a five week trial on charges of conspiracy to produce and distribute class “A” drugs and money laundering after the police wrongfully seized the proceeds of a charity boxing match as drugs money. R v N – Rape and grooming trial, involving false Facebook pages – acquitted on all counts. Apart from David's more traditional transactional and advisory/regulatory experience, David provides advice and acts in connection with strategic and corporate transactional matters on behalf of financial services clients (in particular in relation to the sale and acquisition of loan portfolios). R v R – Operation Barlow II, follow on from Barlow I, this time a mere £7.5m. Always the consummate professional, David is terrific to work with and a leader in the newsroom. He acts for the Appellants in appeals against the refusal and/or revocation of shotgun and firearms certificates. David Lyons has extensive experience advising both lenders and borrowers in connection with infrastructure, resource and project finance, regulatory issues, capital markets and all aspects of corporate, property, acquisition finance, leasing, agricultural and trade finance. David Lyons also provides advice on appeal against sentence and conviction in cases where he did not appear in the original trial including historical cases. David has 7 jobs listed on their profile. The complainant was found tied up half naked in the Defendant’s bath, the defence was that the whole kidnap had been faked to scam the complainant’s family.

He appears in all types of criminal cases but has particular expertise in cases involving; serious sexual offences (including historic rape allegations), computer crime including; fraud, hacking, grooming and indecent image cases, duty and VAT evasion, death by careless and dangerous driving, MCA prosecutions and non-insane automatism caused by prescription drugs particularly the SSRI’s (Prozac etc) in cases of serious violence. R v E – acquittal on violent robbery, based on telephone evidence.

R v G – Unreported, at least in the law reports, he acted for a Bank manager who stole over two million pounds and spent it on Parrots! R v K – Woolwich – Successful defence in a nine handed gang-land kidnapping case.

Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. R v PS – Woolwich – Mr Lyons defended in a firearms case centred around the “curio or ornament” exemption for antique firearms.