Adam Vaitilingam QC
Degree: MA (Cantab)
Year of call and Inn: 1987; Middle Temple
Appointments: QC 2010; Recorder 2005 (Crown and County Courts)
Professional Membership: Western Circuit
Practice:
Adam Vaitilingam QC defends and prosecutes in all types of serious crime, particularly murder, sexual offences and fraud. He defends in regulatory cases, particularly where there are allegations of environmental or health and safety offences. He also maintains a practice in civil law.
He has been involved in teaching advocacy and human rights law, and has lectured in Russia, Mauritius and Hong Kong on behalf of the Council of Europe and the British Council.
Serious crime cases of interest in 2010-2011:
R v SC – Murder; multiple stabbing of suspected rapist;
R v D – Murder; killing in a stately home in Devon;
R v C – Murder; killing of Somalian youth;
R v H – Murder; killing of wife by husband;
R v N – Murder; smothering of infant child by mother;
R v D – Murder of stepfather after allegations of bullying;
R v B – Murder in a hostel for the homeless;
R v B – Murder of drug dealer by business partner;
R v C – Gang murder of stranger;
R v T – Murder of Polish national;
R v C – Manslaughter; death of elderly lady during burglary;
R v W – Manslaughter; killing of security guard during an armed robbery;
R v W – Fraud; multi-million pound fraud against a FTSE 100 company;
R v H – Fraud; company director accused of laundering high value proceeds of crime;
R v W – Fraud; multi-million pound insurance company fraud;
R v D – Fraud; bankruptcy and company director disqualification offences;
R v SH – Fraud; very high value pyramid selling scheme;
R v B – Drugs; high-value conspiracy to import;
R v S – Rape; serial rape of vulnerable women;
R v G – Rape of partner;
R v M – Rape; quashing conviction after bad character evidence wrongly admitted;
R v B – Child sex offences;
R v H – High profile case involving distribution of child pornography;
R v AB – Death by dangerous driving; night-time killing near Salisbury Plain.
Regulatory crime – cases of interest in 2010 and 2011:
R v B and others – defence of 18 businesses and individuals from across the country, charged separately with offences under the Gangmasters Act;
R v D – defence of Yorkshire-based demolition contractors and company directors charged with many environmental offences involving the deposit and keeping of controlled waste.
R v OG – defence of the operator of a waste transfer station charged with waste management offences in North Wales;
R v TWM – defence of contractor charged with environmental offences in South Wales;
R v W – defence of Dorset pig farmer facing substantial confiscation claim in respect of alleged overstocking;
R v S – defence of contractor charged with environmental offences in relation to the filling of a quarry and construction of an access road in Devon.
R v S – defence of farmer and landfill operator, charged with contamination of land in Devon;
R v W – defence of farmer charged with multiple animal cruelty offences in Warwickshire;
R v A – defence of Bristol-based animal feed supplier in relation to contamination of livestock feed, alleged to have caused the biggest threat to the livestock industry since BSE.
R v W – defence of Devon businessman in relation to the supply of “modchips” and trademark offences.
Civil work:
Adam acts for Claimants and Defendants in a variety of areas of civil law, including personal injury, employment, fraud and other commercial disputes.
Civil cases of interest in 2010 and 2011:
Representing a client facing a high value claim from Airbus UK for fraud and conspiracy to cause economic harm;
Representing an employee of a major telecoms company, facing a freezing order against his worldwide assets and a high value claim for fraud;
Advising on judicial review of a leading insurance company’s refusal to unwind fraudulently obtained bonds;
Bringing a test case on behalf of a Canadian citizen to enforce a sizeable personal injury damages award against an insurance company that denied contractual liability;
Representing a woman injured in a high speed boating accident and unable to take up her intended career in the military;
Defending a test case on behalf of a local authority in respect of a school’s conversion to Academy status;
Representing a head-teacher, dismissed for alleged bullying of staff members.
Publications:
Financial Times Guide to Law for Business, 1994
Rough Guide to Jamaica, 1995
Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
adam.vaitilingam@albionchambers.co.uk
Clerks:
Crime: Bonnie Colbeck
T 0117 311 0301
Civil: Michael Harding
T 0117 311 0302
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