In 1991–1992, he tried the Blue Arrow bank fraud case, though he had only recently appointed to the bench and had limited experience in criminal law.
[4] Tried over a year in a purpose-built courtroom in Chancery Lane, it was said at the time to be the most expensive and second-longest criminal trial in English legal history.
[6] In 1994, he awarded £50,000 to Derek Threadway for being assaulted by members of West Midlands Police's serious crime squad, as a result of which he confessed to an armed robbery he did not commit and spent nine years in prison.
[8] In 2007, sitting as a judge advocate, he sentenced Corporal Donald Payne to 12 months' imprisonment on a charge of inhuman treatment of a person protected under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
[9] Payne was the first member of the British armed forces to be convicted of a war crime under the provisions of the International Criminal Court Act 2001.