Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

R v Hamed Abdullah [2025] EWCA Crim (full citation to follow when judgment is published). Succeeded in appealing the duration and terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, narrowing the terms so as to apply only to female children rather than to all children, to not include the appellant's own female children, and reducing the duration from life to 10 years.

R v Alexander McQueen [2025] EWCA Crim (full citation to follow when judgment is published). Succeeded in appealing the duration of a driving disqualification following conviction for dangerous driving, reducing it from 18 months to 15 months.

R v William Armstrong [2024] EWCA Crim 1621. Succeeded in appealing an extended sentence upon a finding of dangerousness. The extended sentence of 7.5 years (serve two thirds) was reduced to a standard determinate sentence of 5.5 years (to serve half).

R v Stephen Watkins [2023] EWCA Crim 1673. The Single Judge gave permission to appeal the conviction on all five grounds drafted by Damian, but, represented by other counsel while Damian was unavailable, the client subsequently abandoned his appeal, and served an abandonment notice. Months later, he instructed Damian to draft an application seeking for the Court to treat the abandonment as a nullity, and to reinstate the appeal. The Court of Appeal found that the basis for applying for reinstatement was correct in law, but did not believe the client's evidence as to why he abandoned, and therefore dismissed the application.