Sam Mainds has led for the Crown and for the defence in a number of significant cases.

Recorder since 1996 Sitting in Crime,Civil and Family.

CPS Grade 4 Prosecutor and CPS Fraud Panel at level 4.

His knowledge and experience therefore encompasses;

• An ability to put over to a jury complex scientific, technical, medical or financial evidence in a way which the public, whether in the witness box or on the jury, comprehend.
• Experience in calling as witnesses or cross examining experts such as forensic scientists, forensic accountants, medical experts, mechanical engineers.
• Experience with complex telephone and cell site analysis and similar evidence.
• An ability to understand and rapidly ‘get up’ how ‘things work’.
• An ability to deal with the most serious of sexual abuse cases where sensitivity to the victims and their families is essential. At the same time appreciating that such cases may have been based on allegations which turn out to be totally false.
• Years of experience in understanding the thinking of those offenders who have committed violent or dishonest offences over many years as well as those who for the first time are before the courts charged with a criminal offence.

The cases have involved the following ;

• Deaths on the high seas, the sea bed, in factories, building sites, sporting venues, hospitals, on the highway and the workplace.•Allegations of Corporate and other involuntary manslaughter.
• Prosecutions by HMRC involving alleged losses to the Revenue of millions of pounds
• High Profile Pension Frauds.
• Complex POCA hearings.
• Mental Health Issues.
• Representing Bureau Veritas an International French Owned Company in tribunal proceedings concerning a significant commercial dispute.