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Overview
Tobias completed pupillage in September 2023 in Manchester, where he continued to practise until moving to Albion in June 2026. He is a general criminal practitioner who both prosecutes and defends, with experience in most areas of general crime. He is on the CPS panel (Category 2 and RASSO).
Alongside crime, Tobias has also acted for local authorities in prosecutions concerning licensing appeals, the Education Act & the Protection from Eviction Act.
Notable Cases
- R v B (2024): Prosecuted a multi handed knife point robbery from a supermarket. By the day of trial, all other defendants had pleaded aside the offender who merely held open the bag. Convicted upon joint enterprise and shared intention.
- R v D (2024): Defended an individual charged with offences under the Representation of the People Act 1985 for forging false signatures on his nomination form to stand as a local councillor. This was prosecuted by the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division.
- R v E (2025): Defended a former soldier charged with a series of s47 assaults, strangulations and threats to kill against his wife. The complainant had a significant social media following and had posted about the allegations, accepting she did so to generate “views”. The complainant also accepted having made false allegations of sexual assault in the past. The defendant was acquitted on all counts.
- R v F (2025): Defended an individual charged with violent disorder in relation to the summer riots which occurred following the stabbings in Stockport. The defendant had been identified by a single police officer amongst a crowd of 200 persons. A successful Galbraith submission was made, based upon the Turnbull guidelines. Submissions also made regarding lack of compliance with PACE Code D.
- R v G (2025): Prosecuted a trial where the defendant sexually assaulted the complainant, his partner’s daughter, on three occasions between the ages of 13 – 15.
- R v H (2025): Prosecuted a sexual assault in the youth court, occurring between two individuals who went to a SEN school. All youths required intermediaries and carefully controlled memory refreshing in light of their additional needs whilst the incident was of some two years in age by the time of trial.
- R v D (2025): Defended an individual charged within a large “benefit fraud” conspiracy. The Crown reduced the Indictment period considerably after representations on the issue of autrefois were made.
- R v L (2026): Prosecuted an individual charged with possessing £400,000 of criminal property. The trial involved cross-jurisdictional issues.
- R v W (2026): Defended a re-trial concerning historical sexual offending against D’s stepdaughter in the early 2000’s, whilst she was under 13. Successfully excluded D’s confession pursuant to s76(2) of PACE, which had made up part of the evidence in the first trial. D was acquitted on all counts.
