Oscar Robins

Notable Crime cases

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R v PH, Hastings Magistrates’ Court [2025]

Acquittal on charges of stalking with fear of violence and assault by beating. The trial consisted of CCTV, mobile phone exhibits, and four live witnesses. Involved the careful cross-examination of a vulnerable complainant on text messages she had sent in the few days before the stalking was alleged to have begun.

R v OU, Bromley Magistrates’ Court [2025]

Privately instructed to represent a man with no previous convictions in a trial alleging the battery of a child in a hospital car park. The defendant was acquitted and retained his exemplary character as a Christian Youth Pastor.

R v EI, Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court [2026]

Acquitted after trial for domestic battery and theft. Complainant alleged that EI had hidden her passport and would only return it on the condition she gave him a gold necklace, raising an interesting legal point surrounding ‘intention to permanently deprive’. Client retained his good character.

R v LS, Lewes Crown Court [2026]

Represented LS on a committal for sentence for possession with intent to supply a Class A drug (heroin). LS pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle heroin into police custody for a detained person. Despite the sentencing guidelines indicating a starting point of a custodial sentence, LS received a 24-month community order.

R v HB, Willesden Magistrates’ Court [2025]

Secured an 18 month conditional discharge for a female senior nurse charged with sharing an intimate photograph of another intending to cause alarm, humiliation, or distress.

R v MS, Bexleyheath Magistrates’ Court [2025]

Privately instructed to represent MS at a sentence hearing for an HGV driver who crashed into a railway bridge causing delays valued at several thousand pounds. After submissions the sentence passed was an absolute discharge, ensuring his career is not in jeopardy.

R v VD, Ipswich Magistrates’ Court [2025]

Crown discontinued a prosecution in a dangerous dog case after the instruction of an expert in dog bite injury analysis. Oscar was privately instructed from the outset and both the client and their dog retain their good character.

Youth Crime

R v KM, Wimbledon Youth Court [2025]

Secured an acquittal in the Youth Court following a four-day knife point robbery trial. Oscar’s client was alleged to have been involved in two knife point robberies and separately charged with possession of a machete and dangerous driving. The client was acquitted under the modern slavery defence with respect to dangerous driving.

R v AA, Wimbledon Youth Court [2025]

Persuaded a District Judge to impose a referral order where AA had turned 18 during proceedings, applying s.29 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963. AA had arrived in the country at age 12 and did not have any contact with family. This followed guilty pleas to two robberies.

R v TL, Croydon Youth Court [2026]

Despite initially opposing any adjournment to consider representations, the Crown were persuaded to administer to TL a youth conditional caution. TL admitted possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.