Mohsin Ariff - Solicitor | Lloyds PR Solicitors | Lloyds PR Criminal Defence

Solicitor

Mohsin
Ariff

Solicitor

Mohsin
Ariff

Homicide Firearms Serious Violence Regulatory Offences, Fraud & White Collar Crime Theft Burglary Robbery Drugs Sexual Offences

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Mohsin Ariff

Biography

Mohsin Ariff is a Solicitor at Lloyds PR Solicitors and is a highly-regarded lawyer that works predominantly on serious crime and complex fraud cases that require a sophisticated understanding. He is Police Station Accredited and also a Court Duty Solicitor and has extensive experience in representing clients at the Police Station and in the Magistrates’ Court.

His workload, however, is primarily that which is in the Crown Court and concerns representing clients that have been charged with murder, rape, multi-handed drug conspiracies, complex frauds, robbery and human trafficking and servitude. With such serious cases in his remit, Mohsin consistently remains in control and calm at all times when interacting with clients and third parties including counsel and investigative and enforcement authorities.

Mohsin is appreciated by clients for his prompt and clear style in communication; he manages expectations and brings sharpness and innovation in his approach when identifying outcomes that are favourable to those instructing him. He is meticulous in his preparation and excellent at putting evidence together when building a defence for his clients. He has an unrivalled knowledge of procedure and identifies pragmatic solutions in the most complex of cases and this combined with his tactical awareness means that he is a lawyer who is consistently instructed by new and existing clients.

With enforcement agencies, he is assertive yet not forceful and quietly confident with his strategic decisions to aid and assist his clients. He has worked on a magnitude of high profile cases and his conscientious style and ability to concentrate thoroughly on the important points at issue means that he has a strong track record in achieving the desired outcome for his clients.

Practice areas & cases (69)

14 cases

Operation Ewe, Luton Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the murder of his employee.
Operation Geneview, Central Criminal Court
Represented the defendant charged with the murder of Negus McClean that was killed by stabbing; this was a gang related case. Read more on the Guardian.
Operation Homebush, Central Criminal Court
Represented the defendant charged with the murder of Thierry Gnankumar in Lewisham. Read more on the BBC.
Operation Jardim, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the murder of Sabrina Moss on Kilburn High Road. Additional charges in this case were attempted murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. Read more on the Guardian.
Operation Rubytail, Nottingham Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with murder along with seven others was accused of a botched revenge attack whereby they tried to set fire to a house whilst a mother and her three children slept. Read more on the Daily Mail.
R v A, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with murder by stabbing to death a gang member in a bookmakers on Old Kent Road.
R v A, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with murder and was in the context of Tamil gang fighting.
R v H, Central Criminal Court
Client and four others accused of two attempted murders, wounding with intent and possession of firearms with intent.
R v Jatana (2014) Kingston Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the attempted murder of a victim who suffered twenty-six wounds.
R v J, Reading Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was mentally challenged and was charged with the attempted murder of his mother by stabbing her on the back of her head.
R v J, Snaresbrook Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with murder and manslaughter; he was accused of murdering his own father after the body was exhumed by police from the rear garden of their family home.
R v M, Harrow Crown Court
Represented a defendant in an attempted murder on Empire Way, Wembley where the victim was stabbed nine times and was left with no recollection of the incident.
R v Miah, Central Criminal Court
Represented the defendant in a murder case that became a landmark ruling in baby shaking murder prosecutions. The defendant was acquitted of murder. Read more on the Telegraph.
R v S, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the murder of Geeta Aulakh who was brutally hacked to death to preserve the defendant’s family honour.

2 cases

R v G, Kingston Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the possession of a firearm.
R v K, Kingston Crown Court
Represented the defendant who was charged with possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The Crown accepted a lesser offence to possession of the firearm only.

Serious Violence

10 cases

Operation Auroner, Croydon Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit false imprisonment and to blackmail. The defendant along with one other faced allegations of having orchestrated the kidnap, false imprisonment and blackmail of a couple from the United Kingdom who had travelled to India on a religious trip.
Operation Bohemia, Norwich Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with kidnap, false imprisonment and grievous bodily harm (wounding with intent). The defendant was one of eleven charged with the kidnap, false imprisonment and brutal attack of a heavily pregnant woman and her partner.
Operation Hamun, Southwark Crown Court
Representing a defendant that was charged with the blackmail and false imprisonment of another in Bangladesh and made a ransom demand in order to release the victim.
Operation Heartsease, Southwark Crown Court
Represented a defendant alleged to have conspired with a group to fake his kidnap and blackmail his father for $1,000,000.00 in gold bullion. Read more in the Daily Mail.
R v F, Snaresbrook Crown Court

Regulatory Offences, Fraud & White Collar Crime

20 cases

Operation Brimstone, Nottingham Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was involved in a multi-handed large scale mortgage fraud exceeding £4 million.
Operation Curfew, Kingston Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with conspiracy to assist unlawful entry into and within the United Kingdom as well as offences pertaining to forgery.
Operation Dorper, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant in a SOCA (the forerunner to the NCA) investigation into a Trojan virus cybercrime sent via job adverts on Gumtree. This was also referred to as the Harrods Fraud in the popular media. Read more on the BBC.
Operation Enderby 2, Central Criminal Court
Representing the first defendant of sixteen in a multi-million-pound money laundering case concerning the United Kingdom and Hong Kong that is being investigated by the NCA.
Operation Gesticulate, Kingston Crown Court
Represented a defendant that faced a SOCA investigation in relation to the facilitation of illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom.

6 cases

Operation Anubis, Woolwich Crown Court
Representing a defendant that was charged with robberies in respect to cash that was being transited in the South London areas.
Operation Niji, Harrow Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with conspiracy to commit burglary over several counties across England.
Operation Rome, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with the armed robbery of a money exchange bureau’s owner whilst he was transporting the end of day takings to a secure location (value of takings was £310,000).
R v A, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with murder by stabbing to death a gang member in a bookmakers on Old Kent Road.
R v B, Woolwich Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was involved in the largest Gem Heist in the history of the United Kingdom; a £40 million robbery at the Graff Jewellers, Old Bond Street.
R v M, Isleworth Crown Court
Represented the defendant who was charged with multiple rapes of his ex-partner including strangulation. The case involved reviewing the defendant and complainants phones. The defendant was acquitted on re-trial after a hung jury in the first trial.

14 cases

Operation Demolish, Maidstone Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was charged with conspiring to supply Class A drugs in a case that involved eighteen defendants.
Operation Gadbrim, Central Criminal Court
Represented a defendant that was charged with street dealing in the Central London area.
Operation Pagoda, Harrow Crown Court
Represented a defendant charged with conspiring to supply Class A drugs over a period of time in the Hertfordshire area that were estimated to be over £4 million. Read more on the Daily Mail.
Operation Penhurst, Manchester Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was charged with conspiring to import 35 kilograms of Class B drugs from Netherlands.
Operation Pullman, Canterbury Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was charged with conspiring to supply Class A drugs initially estimated to be valued at £8.1 million.
Operation Ruhr, Gloucester Crown Court

Sexual Offences

12 cases

Operation Veerde, Isleworth Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was alleged to have been involved in the trafficking of vulnerable young females from Czech Republic for sexual exploitation and sham marriages in the United Kingdom.
R v A, Harrow Crown Court
Represented a defendant that had been charged with attempting to rape a woman at a bus stop.
R v B, St Albans Crown Court
Represented a defendant that was alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted his step-daughter over several years.
R v H, St Albans Crown Court
Representing a defendant that faced multiple allegations of rape by different victims at various periods of time.
R v K, Kingston Crown Court
Represented the defendant who was charged with possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The Crown accepted a lesser offence to possession of the firearm only.
R v K, Kingston Crown Court
Represented a defendant who was part of a group that allegedly gang raped sex workers at a brothel.