LONDON COURT OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
YOUNG INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATORS GROUP.
WESTERN CURCUIT
Criminal Experience
Ethu holds a Masters in Public International Law with specialisation in International Criminal Law and Human Rights.
Ethu has considerable professional experience in both prosecuting and defending criminal law matters and is also a Grade 2 prosecutor on the Western Circuit.
He has prosecuted for a wide range of organisations, government agencies and both county and local authorities. He has also acted for national and international organisations in criminal law matters. His instructions have taken him throughout the country.
A large proportion of his work now revolves around the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and associated issues. He is very experienced in such cases and has lectured, on behalf of the National Police Improvement Agency, on asset recovery, money laundering, confiscation, cash seizure, detention and forfeiture issues. As a specialist in this field he is frequently called upon to deal with Proceeds of Crime Act matters in large criminal operations. This work covers areas such as human trafficking, sex slavery, brothel keeping, mortgage fraud, drug production and supply, selling counterfeit goods, video piracy, tax evasion and rogue trading. Ethu is a key speaker at the POCA forum that Chambers hosts on a regular basis.
This work, as in Operation Dogford and a cash forfeiture from suspected members of an Al-Quaida cell in Hampshire, frequently involves significant amounts of money.
He has worked for the Department of Work and Pensions on false passport and benefit fraud matters in both the Crown and Magistrates' Court. His criminal practice includes regulatory criminal work where he has acted for multi-national companies as well as local authorities. This includes trading standards and planning enforcement cases in both the Crown Court and the Magistrates' Court.
He has also acted in the majority of Football Banning Order cases brought on application in Hampshire since shortly before the European Football Championships in 2004. He has also advised Hampshire County Council on Public Interest Immunity matters and drafted the Hampshire County Council Probation Service Procedures for complying with applications for disclosure.
In addition he has also defended a number of soldiers at Courts Martial. This includes hearings in the UK as well as abroad. His most recent appearance was a week long four handed Court Martial at Osnabrook Court Martial Centre in Germany.
He also appears on a frequent basis to represent prisoners convicted of murder and serious sexual offences at Parole Board hearings across the country.
Ethu has also represented parties in many applications under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in relation to Sex Offender Prevention Orders, Notification Orders and Risk of Sexual Harm Orders. In conjunction with this his Crown Court defence work means that he has appeared on behalf of individuals across the criminal spectrum.
Ethu's work, as set out above, includes the following offences : murder, drug manufacture, possession and supply; kidnapping; wounding with intent; assault occasioning actual bodily harm; affray; harassment; burglaries and thefts; sexual offences including rape, buggery, necrophilia, sexual activity with a child and indecent assault: racially aggravated offences and dangerous driving.
Civil Experience
Ethu, a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, came to the Bar after working extensively on academic works in the fields of International Trade, Arbitration and Franchising. He is also a member of the Young International Arbitrators' Group.He was the editorial manager for the Journal of World Trade, the International Journal of Franchising and Distribution Law, the International Encyclopaedia of Franchising, Corporate Rescue & Insolvency and the International Encyclopaedia of Agency and Distribution Agreements and still continues in his role as the editorial manager of Arbitration International.
Ethu has also edited books for the World Trade Organisation, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, the London Institute of International Banking, Finance and Development Law, the SMU Institute of International Banking and Finance, the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, the Chinese Law Group and the Centre for Comparative and Public Law.
He has acted in many civil cases covering issues including contract law, chancery, personal injury, building arbitrations and trusts law. His personal injury practice is predominantly paperwork based. However, he does have considerable experience of trials and quantum assessments. His work is, approximately, equally shared between claimants and defendants. Ethu has also represented a number of authorities, companies and individuals at inquests.
He has experience and interest in public law and was last instructed in judicial review proceedings in the Administrative Court by a Police Constabulary.
In recent years he has represented housing associations across London and the south of England in Landlord & Tenant and Housing matters, in particular ASBO applications and possessions following incidents of nuisance and anti-social behaviour. He has a developing interest in planning enforcement and local government work.
Reported Cases
Keondjian v Kay (2004) EWHC 2820 (CH) - covering beneficial interests and construtive trusts
R v DPP (2006) LTT 17/5/06 - on the issue of criminal intent
Southard v DPP (2006) EWHC 3449 (Admin) - on the issue of criminal intent
Lord-Castle v DPP (2009) EWHC 84 (Admin) - the definition of an ambulance