Russell Cooke Putney London 2

About Nathan

I provide my clients with clear, decisive advice to steer them through a criminal justice system which often leaves those involved in it with more questions than answers. I pride myself on getting my clients the results that they need with my proactive, ‘no stone left unturned’ approach to case preparation.

Nathan acts for clients in proceedings in the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court. He represents clients charged with a range of criminal offences including theft offences, sexual offences, drug offences, offences against the person, fraud and motoring offences.

Nathan is also instructed in pre-charge matters by individuals who have been suspected of criminal offences. He has had great success in persuading the police, Crown Prosecution Service and other law enforcement agencies to withdraw their cases against his clients.

As part of a multi-disciplinary firm, Nathan works with colleagues from a wide range of legal disciplines to represent and advise clients in unique situations involving both criminal and civil law issues. Nathan has an emerging practice representing clients charged with property-related regulatory offences, including planning enforcement breaches and property licensing offences.

Nathan also advises the victims of crime, having made numerous successful applications under the Victims’ Right to Review scheme to reverse their initial decision not to prosecute a suspect in a criminal investigation.

Experience

  • Helped to secure the acquittal of six clients charged with offences under section 12 of the Public Order Act 1986, arising out of a Just Stop Oil ‘slow march’ across Lambeth Bridge
  • Successfully negotiated the withdrawal of contemplated enforcement action by a local authority against a registered charity client in relation to alleged breaches of our client’s HMO licence
  • Represented a client charged with 17 counts of Fraud by False Representation relating to a long-term ‘romance fraud’ in Crown Court proceedings.
  • Represented a 17 year-old client charged with Robbery in the Youth Court
  • Represented a client in the Crown Court charged with a breach of a Planning Enforcement Notice over an indictment period spanning 13 years
  • Obtained a very strong success record in avoiding his clients’ mandatory disqualification from driving on grounds of ‘exceptional hardship’
  • Successfully brought a Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) application for a client of Russell-Cooke’s personal injury team, who had suffered life-changing brain injuries in a serious road traffic collision, securing a charge of causing serious injury by careless driving against the defendant driver

Education

  • Read History at the University of Bristol, graduating with a First.
  • Completed the GDL and the LPC LLM at the University of Law, Manchester, achieving distinctions in both

Nathan's highlights

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13.07.2023

Insolvency legal news and updates—July 2023

Russell-Cooke’s restructuring and insolvency team present a round-up of recent insolvency news and updates, they look at how these will impact the insolvency...
Jonathan Gorman, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, restructuring and insolvency team. Nathan Weich, Trainee in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, restructuring and insolvency team.
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Jonathan Gorman, Nathan Weich
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27.01.2022

Scrubs: a tale of clinical negligence

Nathan Weich, Trainee in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, restructuring and insolvency team.
Nathan Weich
4 min Read
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12.10.2021

Lessons from a month in personal injury

Nathan Weich, Trainee in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, restructuring and insolvency team.
Nathan Weich
3 min Read
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