Sonya Saul Essex Street London WC2R 3AA Profile

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1 Profile Sonya Saul is a junior of 12 years call, who prosecutes and defends in a wide range of criminal cases, including multi-handed violence, arson, robbery, rape and serious sexual offences. She has significant experience of dealing with vulnerable witnesses and defendants. Sonya is a Grade 3 Prosecutor for CPS London and South-East, prosecuting serious general crime. Sonya is a member of the Specialist Rape List and is regularly instructed by the RASSO Unit. Sonya regularly prosecutes multi-handed cases as sole counsel, and has prosecuted silks instructed by the defence. She has prosecuted Special Casework trials and represented the crown in the Appeal Court and the Administrative Court, dealing with Judicial Reviews. She has prosecuted cases involving undercover operations and PII applications as sole counsel and as junior counsel. Sonya's defence practice includes firearms, rape, Affray, Violent Disorder (as leading counsel), and historical sexual abuse. General Crime: Prosecuting Serious Sexual Offences Sonyasaul@23es.com Sonyasaul@23es.com.cjsm.net Counsel s Clerk Clerks@23es.com Primary Areas of Practice General Crime Appointments CPS Grade 3 Prosecutor CPS Rape Panel Vice Chairman of North London Bar Mess Committee member of the South-Eastern Circuit Education Goldsmiths College, University of London (BA) Hons City University (MA) College of Law (BVC) Sonya is frequently instructed in cases involving rape and other serious sexual offences. Past cases include: R v B (2015) Instructed as junior counsel in this sex case. B had raped or sexually assaulted female family members and their friends in incidents spanning more than 20 years.

2 R v M (2015) (RASSO London) Rape: instructed as sole counsel. The defendant, an unlicensed minicab driver, took the extremely drunk victim to his home instead of hers and raped her. She was too drunk to consent or resist. He was found two years later when his DNA was taken following an arrest for taxi-touting. R v P (2015) (RASSO London) Rape: instructed as sole counsel. The defendant falsely imprisoned and raped his partner over several days following her decision to end their relationship. R v PH (2014) (RASSO London) Stranger Rape: instructed as sole counsel. The complainant had been raped after accepting a lift from a stranger purporting to be a Good Samaritan. R v W (2014) RASSO London) Rape and Historical sexual assault. The defendant had raped two women when he was 18 and sexually assaulted a third when she was 6 and he was 15. General Crime Sonya is frequently instructed in cases involving serious violence. She has extensive experience of dealing with PII, surveillance and undercover operations, as both sole counsel and junior counsel. R v AJ and Others (2015) Instructed as sole counsel prosecuting a multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs in south-west London, which involved the use of various surveillance techniques, including undercover officers. R v F and Others (2015) (CPS London s Special Casework Unit) Conspiracy to Rob: Instructed as junior counsel. The defendants conspired with others to burgle houses around London and the South- East, in order to steal high-value cars parked outside, which were then disposed of in various ways.

3 Cell site records and surveillance evidence were used to confirm their locations throughout the period of the burglaries. R v R and Others (2014) (CPS London) Conspiracy to Rob: instructed as sole counsel. The complainant's home was invaded by four men who tried to rob his family at gunpoint. Cell site information and phone records were used to confirm the location of the men at the time of the incident. Two of the defendants unsuccessfully appealed their convictions in R v A and G (2013) (CPS London) Sonya was instructed as sole counsel. A, under surveillance for murder, was recorded planning and executing a burglary with G. The defence made numerous applications to exclude the surveillance evidence on the basis that it had been installed for one purpose, but used for another, all of which ultimately failed. Operation Chalais (CPS London s Special Casework Unit) (2012) Instructed as sole counsel, Sonya represented CPS London s Special Casework Unit in two trials (both conspiracies to sell firearms) and numerous sentencing hearings in a major police undercover operation targeting serious crime in Hackney. This operation led to 30 convictions and was widely reported in London. News Report R v H, L and G (2013) Instructed as sole counsel. H s friend was charged with rape. H and his co-defendants, under surveillance for a separate matter, were charged with witness intimidation, after attending a significant witness home with weapons. R v S and Others (2012) Instructed as sole counsel, Sonya prosecuted a four-handed s.18 case concerning a punishment beating of the victim. The men chased him through the streets and beat him with metal pipes. A witness called the police. When the police arrived, they claimed to have been coming to his aid. The witness overheard and identified his purported saviours as his attackers.

4 R v M and Others (2011) Instructed as sole counsel, Sonya prosecuted brothers charged with a revenge attack on three complainants. M, after being assaulted on Christmas Day, went with his two brothers to look for the men who attacked them but stabbed and assaulted three innocent men instead. Vulnerable Complainants R v D (2016) Involving a 4 year old complainant and a 15 year old friend of the family. R v B (2013) (CPS London) Instructed as sole counsel to prosecute a man charged with sexually assaulting two girls aged 8 and 10 in a park. R v D and Others (2012) (CPS London) Instructed as sole counsel to prosecute a man charged with physically assaulting an 18-month old boy, whose injuries included a bite and a serious burn to the sole of his foot. He and his partner failed to treat the injuries and instead tried to hide them. Dental impressions led to D s brother being charged for the bite. R v A and Another (2010) (CPS London) Sonya was instructed as sole counsel. A was charged with beating his 8 year-old daughter with the buckle end of a belt. He then left her in the care of his sister, who went out and left the girl alone inside the locked house for the rest of the afternoon. R v K (2009) (CPS London) Instructed as sole counsel to prosecute a man charged with a robbing a deaf mute at a train station. This trial involved the use of a signlanguage interpreter. General Crime: Defending R v C: (2014)

5 Instructed to represent C, charged with making a threat to kill, Affray and possessing two knives. R v M (2014) Instructed to represent M, charged with a co-defendant with kidnap. R v C (2014) Instructed to represent C, charged with robbery and possessing a firearm. R v A (2013) Instructed as sole counsel to defend a man charged with a multihanded casino fraud R v H (2012) Instructed as sole counsel. Defendant charged with burglary during the 2011 riots R v O (2009) Sonya was instructed as leading junior.teenage defendant charged with 10 others in a violent disorder. Rape and Serious Sexual Offences: Defending R v T (2009) Sonya was instructed as sole counsel. Defendant was charged with sexually assaulting three teenage girls who worked with him. R v B (2009) Sonya was instructed as sole counsel. 80 year old defendant charged with historical sexual assaults on a child family member R v M (2008) Sonya was instructed as sole counsel to represent a 15 year-old defendant charged with rape. Court of Appeal R v B; R v L (2013) (CPS London s Special Casework Unit)

6 Instructed by the Crown to appear for the respondent against B and L, part of Operation Chalais, an undercover operation targeting serious crime in Hackney, who appealed against their sentences Judicial Review R v L (2013) (CPS London) Instructed by the Crown to appear for the respondent against L, part of a multi-handed witness intimidation prosecution, who challenged the admissibility of the evidence against him at his committal hearing.