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Member Profile
Gelaga King
Year of call: 1985
Recorder: Recorder 2000
Email : gpking@2bedfordrow.co.uk
Education: LLB (Hons) (University of Hull)
Gelaga King
Year of call: 1985
Recorder: Recorder 2000
Education: LLB (Hons) (University of Hull)
Qualified to accept Direct Access.
Gelaga is a Leading junior specialising in serious crime and Regulatory Law. He is regularly instructed as a leading junior in offences of murder, fraud and other complex crimes. He is often called upon to advise pre-interview in respect of strategy and achieving best outcomes. He has extensive and successful experience in the Court of Appeal.
Gelaga has acted for a diverse range of clients including, company directors, politicians, doctors, dentists, policemen, actors, priests, a Commonwealth Games silver medallist and footballers amongst others. Having been called to the Sierra Leonean Bar in 1988 he has extensive links with Sierra Leone and has advised on the validity of diamond licences and on the possible restitution of alleged conflict diamonds. He is a former member of the Joint Regulatory Committee of the Bar council. He is a member of the Chambers Regulatory Law Group and is regularly instructed to act as Legal Assessor in Disciplinary Hearings. He has sat on the Inns Of Court Disciplinary Tribunal and served two terms on the Bar Council’s Professional Conduct Committee.
Gelaga is a Gray’s Inn approved Advocacy trainer. As well as teaching advocacy domestically he has also been involved in International Advocacy training.
MEMBERSHIPS
Gelaga is a Vice Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council. Member of the Criminal Bar Association. Member of the South Eastern Circuit. Member of Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers. Member of Gray’s Inn’s Scholarship committee. Former member of Bar Standard Board’s Qualifications Committee. Former Member of the Professional Complaints Committee of the Bar Council. Gelaga King is a member of the Sierra Leone Bar.
Cases
Drugs | |
| R v Morgan | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with multi-million pound importation of conspiracy to import drugs concealed in fruit from Jamaica. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Rippe | Appeared for the prosecution. Multi handed conspiracy to import millions of pounds worth of Class A drugs from Holland. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Traves | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant targeted by major drugs operation involving the use of covert surveillance. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Hemens | A conspiracy to import class A and B drugs estimated to worth £60 million. (Involving Supergrass Steve Moore.) |
| R v Baker | A drugs and money-laundering conspiracy estimated to have been worth in excess of £75 million. (One of the Michael Michael, Supergrass, series of trials.) Court : Crown Court |
Miscellaneous Crime | |
| R v D | Appeared for the Prosecution. Baby shaking case. Baby's father accused of causing permanent brain damage. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Dunn | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with prison mutiny and serious offences of violence following the Lincoln Prison riots. |
| R v Ayeni | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant accused of possession of a firearm during a gang related incident in which a teenager was fatally stabbed. |
| R v D | Appeared for the Prosecution. Baby shaking case. Baby's father accused of causing permanent brain damage. |
| R v Williams | Appeared for the defendant. Armed robbery of Harvey Nicholls on Christmas Day. |
| R v Wooley | Appeared for the prosecution 2 defendants linked to organised crime charged with kidnap, blackmail, false imprisonment and possession of firearms. |
| R v S | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with kidnap, false imprisonment, blackmail and possession of a firearm. Submission of no case to answer upheld at end of six weeks in which not a single-witness was asked a question. Court : Crown Court |
Money Laundering | |
| R v A | Appeared as leading Junior for defendant charged with laundering the proceeds of a man said to be the head of a drugs empire worth millions |
| R v Sulzinskas | Appeared for the prosecution. 3 million money laundering case involving the use of a London Bureaux de Change by Organised Crime syndicate. Court: Crown Court. |
Murder/Manslaughter | |
| R v J.Morally | Appeared as junior counsel for defendant charged with murder, attempted murder, kidnap and rape (Mary-Ann Leneghan murder trial) Court : Crown Court |
| R v A | Appeared as junior counsel for defendant charged with murder and attempted murder. (Paul Erhahon murder trial) Court : Crown Court |
| R v J | Appeared as leading junior counsel for first defendant charged with a gang related murder in Croydon. The trial received evidence from an anonymous informant who was forced to become a witnesses, arrested and brought to court to give evidence. He refused to leave the court cell and the Prosecution revealed his identity and were given leave to read his statement. The defendant was unanimously aquitted. |
| R v Legon | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with manslaughter. |
| R v Taylor | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. Court : Crown Court |
Fraud | |
| R v Davie | Appeared as junior counsel for company Director charged with conspiracy to defraud. Court : Crown Court |
| R v H. El-Jamal | Appeared as leading junior counsel for alleged organiser of major "identity" fraud on the UK clearing banks. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Youell | Appeared as leading junior counsel for defendant charged with evading Income Tax, Corporation Tax and VAT Court : Crown Court |
| R v KM | Appeared as leading junior for company Director alleged to be the organiser of a 13million Diversion and Duty fraud. Court: Crown Court |
| R v Starr | Appeared as junior counsel for company Director charged with conspiracy to defraud a major computer company. Court : Crown Court |
| R v F | Appeared for dentist charged with 1miillion NHS fraud involving ghost patients and fake gold fillings. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Anderson | Appeared for alleged mastermind of a major conspiracy to defraud iTunes and Amazon. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Hall | Charged with conspiracy to Defraud the British Tourist Authority. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Patel | Condemnation proceedings in respect of alcohol and tobacco worth in excess of £1 million. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Gunnawan | Advance fee fraud prosecuted by City of London Fraud Office. Court : Crown Court |
| R v Khalik | Appeared for the defendant. One of only 5 company directors disqualified under Section 8 of Companies Act 1985. Prosecution brought by both Department of Trade and Industry and Trading Standards for conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent trading and other related offences. |
| R v Toor | Appeared as leading junior for defendant in conspiracy to defraud the passport office. A sophisticated and complex conspiracy exposed and profiled by 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald.' Court : Crown Court |
Domestic Appellate Cases | |
| Wood v British Railways Board | Appeared for the Appellant. Successful appeal against a County Court Judges dismissal of the Plaintiffs claim for damages. Court upheld submissions that the trial judges conclusions from the facts were wrong and as a result he was wrong to dismiss the Plaintiffs claim for damages resulting from a road traffic accident. Court : Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| R v Wahid & Madood [1997] 9608142 W4 | Appeared for the Appellants. Successful appeal against Sentence and recommendation for deportation. |
| R v Richardson [1997] 96/2405 W4 | Appeared for the Respondent. Court upheld submissions that the Appellants convictions for possession of an imitation firearm and 2 robberies were safe. |
| R v Kasim [1997] 97/1661/Y5 | Appeared for the Appellant Conviction for Robbery quashed. Court upheld submission that the jury had been misdirected on the law of joint enterprise, resulting in an unsafe conviction. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Bailey, Holder, Robb, Barrett & Manning [1998] 97/07067 Y5 | Appeared for all five Appellants. Successful appeals against Sentence. Court: Court of Appeal. |
| R v Cuenca-Ruiz [2001] EWCA Crim 4418 | Appeared for the Appellant. Successful appeal against Sentence. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Laguda [2002] All ER (D) 131 (Jul) | Appeared for Appellant. Successful appeal against sentence. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Wilson [2002] All ER (D) 388 (Jan) | Appeared for Appellant. Successful appeal against sentence. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Bangura [2002] EWCA Crim 866 | Appeared for the Appellant. Conviction for Robbery quashed. Court upheld submissions that the Judge at first instances refusal to sever the Appellant from co-defendants involved in cut-throat trial fundamentally undermined his defence and resulted in an unsafe conviction. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v James [2002] EWCA Crim 3133 | Appeared for the Appellant. Conviction for conspiracy to supply Class B drugs quashed. Court persuaded to investigate irregularity by a juror. Irregularity compounded by juror lying in statements taken for use in the appeal. Lies exposed by private investigator. Court : Court of Appeal |
| Dhollan v General Council of The Bar [2005] EWHC 3197 (Admin) | Appeared on behalf of the Bar Council on an application by Mr Dhollan for judicial review of Morrison Js judgment of 6/12/04 as a visitor to the Inns of Court undertaking an appellate jurisdiction of the Joint Regulations Committee of the Bar Council. The court accepted submissions that the application was misconceived. Court: Administrative Court |
| R v Webb & others [2005] All ER (D) 84 (Aug) | Appeared as leading junior for the Respondent charged with wide-scale VAT fraud. Interlocutory Appeal by Prosecution against a Ruling made during a Preparatory Hearing. Successfully argued that the trial Judges ruling ordering disclosure of material in respect of which the Prosecution claimed Public Interest Immunity was correct. Prosecution later offered no evidence. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Robertson [2005] All ER (D) 47 Oct. | Appeared for the Appellant. Conviction for conspiracy to Defraud quashed. Court upheld submissions that the trial judge wrongly rejected a submission of no case to answer. Court : Court of Appeal |
| R v Donaldson [2008] EWCA Crim 1605 | Appeared for the Appellant. Conviction for Affray quashed. Court upheld submission that late addition of count was unfair and rendered the conviction unsafe. Court : Court of Appeal |
