David Miller
Year of Call: 1998
Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Health & Safety, Police Disciplinary, Courts Martial, Inquests & Public Inquiries
Email: dmiller@furnivallaw.co.uk
David Miller is a defence advocate with detailed knowledge of police procedure and investigative techniques, with particular expertise in disclosure issues, organised crime and intelligence operations, informant handling, forensic science and fraud. He has a wide ranging practice including serious fraud, sexual offences, violent crime, drugs offences, road traffic, and judicial review.
David has been regularly instructed in large-scale frauds often as a leading junior. Recent examples of his fraud practice include a £47 million conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to defraud Railtrack involving a number of employees and a multi handed conspiracy to defraud insurance companies that involved complex related confiscation proceedings. David is currently instructed as leading junior to represent a key defendant on money laundering charges relating to the alleged conspiracy to supply heroin nationally.
David also prosecutes serious fraud cases with a particular emphasis on defendants employed in public office.
David's recent cases include murder, attempted murder, gross negligence manslaughter, conspiracy to defraud, money laundering, perverting the course of justice, conspiracy to commit robbery and GBH, violent disorder, importation of class A drugs, possession of class A drugs with intent to supply, confiscation (drug trafficking) hearings and possession of child pornography distributed by use of Internet sites.
David regularly appears as a leading Junior and has led, for example, in cases concerning riot (the Harmondsworth Detention Centre riots), conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to supply class ‘A' drugs, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit robbery with loaded firearms.
David has recently appeared in the Court of Appeal involving allegations of fraud against serving police officers. On a number of occasions he has been instructed by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals to advise on the merits of fresh appeals against ‘old' convictions where there is a suggestion of ‘new evidence'.