Furnival Chambers continues to maintain a strong criminal practice. Jon Swain acted in an unusual prosecution involving allegations of copyright infringement through the sale of hacked unreleased music belonging to major recording artists, resulting in a suspended sentence following guilty pleas. Lewis Power KC represented the appellant in what was known in the Court of Appeal as R v ANL, a case concerning when a retrial should take place on an allegation of murder after a jury returns a conviction on a manslaughter count but cannot reach a verdict on a murder count.
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