Feryal Ertan

Appointments

FA Independent Panel Disciplinary Member (2020) & Chairperson (2024)
FA National Serious Case Panel Member (2022)
FA Regional Discipline Panel Member (2021)
Independent Person of the Standards Committee at London Borough of Hackney (2021)

Feryal is a specialist criminal practitioner for both the Defence and Prosecution. 
 
Feryal is a Grade 4 CPS Advocate Panel Member and CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) Specialist Panel Member. 
 
Feryal undertakes work for the NCA, Trident, Flying Squad, and Specialist Crime units including disclosure reviews and pre-charge advices. 
 
Feryal has been instructed as a led junior for both the Defence and Prosecution, and has extensive experience in areas such as firearms, serious violence, drug offences and serious sexual offences including children. 
 
Feryal is an approved case presenter for the Nurses and Midwifery Counsel (NMC). She also accepts instructions for other Regulatory Bodies such as the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPHC) and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). 
 
Feryal has a wide breadth of experience when it comes to the Court of Appeal or the Administrative Court for Judicial Review. Feryal also provides advisory and advocacy assistance in respect of Costs Judge matters as well as prison law matters. 
Recent/Notable Cases:

 
Firearms:

R v MH & ors – Croydon Crown Court (Operation Takeseg)
Led Junior for the prosecution in an attempted murder and firearms case which involved the discharge of two handguns. The incident was captured on CCTV and RING doorbells. All four defendants pleaded guilty and/or were found guilty following trial by jury. Two of the defendants were sentenced to extended sentences under the ‘dangerousness’ provisions. 
 
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/honor-oak-firearm-discharge-gun-lonon-crime-met-police-b1063077.html
 
R v SS – Croydon Crown Court (Operation Shaboot)
Prosecuted from trial to conviction. Police were called to reports of a broad daylight shooting in a residential estate where three gun shots were heard and two men seen with firearms. The defendant instructed his partner to dispose of their ‘RING’ doorbell camera however the box containing the serial number was located during the search of the property. The footage was obtained from the United States by way of an international letter of request (ILOR). The footage showed the defendant in possession of a firearm, pointing the gun towards another and gunshot being heard. 
 
R v RA – Snaresbrook Crown Court (Operation Eggjinn)
Prosecuted from charge to conviction. Police were called to a disturbance and found the defendant in possession of a firearm. Having searched his property, an improvised explosive device was found together with bomb-making chemicals, blank rounds of ammunition and armoury such as crossbows. The defendant was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. 
 
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/east-london-hoarder-caught-flask-29137568
 
R v SO & anor – Snaresbrook Crown Court
Prosecuted to conviction. Police observed the transfer of two firearms and ammunition from one defendant to the other and was intercepted by police before the onward supply. 
 
R v DG & ors – Kingston Crown Court 
Defendant was charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life. It was alleged that the defendant with 5 others were able to supply a Mac 10 submachine gun along the chain before being stopped by armed officers. The defendant was alleged to be a ‘broker’ and the only evidence against him was circumstantial evidence, namely telephone evidence. The trial lasted 5 weeks.  

R v A & ors – Snaresbrook Crown Court (Operation Bubonic) 
Led Prosecution Junior in a firearm and live ammunition case involving 4 defendants. Prosecuted from trial to conviction. The allegation involved a revolver handgun, which had been concealed in a photographic equipment case. During the first trial, a juror found a concealed package in the equipment case which had been missed and found to contain 12 rounds of live ammunition. 

 
Serious Violence:

R v A – Woolwich Crown Court
Prosecuted from trial to conviction. Series of aggravated burglaries committed against independent escorts. The defendant would arrange to meet an escort and upon arrival at the venue, would brandish a knife to threaten violence against the complainant in order to steal. The gravity of the violence escalated in that the defendant held knife to throat of the complainant and used knife to scar her in the last of the series of aggravated burglaries he committed.
 
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/13/robber-threatened-cut-sex-workers-heart-unless-handed-money-12236084/
 
R v S – Wood Green Crown Court
Prosecuted from trial to conviction. The defendant lured a sex worker to his address before he beat her unconscious in a vicious attack. Sentenced to 2 years 9 months imprisonment.
 
https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/crime/man-guilty-of-escort-worker-attack-8075394
 
R v R – Wood Green Crown Court 
Successfully defended allegations of threats to kill. Jury unanimously acquitted in just over an hour of deliberations. The complainant had previously made allegations of rape against the defendant who had been acquitted of those allegations at an earlier trial.
 
R v D – Snaresbrook Crown Court
Prosecuted allegations of robbery of a heavy goods vehicle containing alcohol, which was followed to the depot before the driver was assaulted with a tyre iron and lorry taken. The defendant is currently awaiting extradition to Belgium where he was convicted and sentenced in his absence for human trafficking.

Drugs:

R v A & ors – Wood Green Crown Court (Operation Donniford) 
Led Junior for the Prosecution. Successfully prosecuted from trial to conviction five defendants in several conspiracies to supply Class A and B drugs which included over 32 kilos of cocaine, 6 ½ kilos of heroin and 34 kilos of cannabis. 

 
R v A – Snaresbrook Crown Court
Successfully prosecuted defendant who had pleaded guilty to the supply of “industrial amounts” of Class A and B drugs. He was in possession of £1.9million worth of drugs, which included 13 kilos of high purity cocaine and 15 kilos of ketamine. He was sentenced to 9 years and 2 months imprisonment. 
 
R v M – Snaresbrook Crown Court 
Prosecuted from trial to conviction. The defendant was a third striker and following his conviction for supply of Class A drugs, he was sentenced to the mandatory minimum of 7 years imprisonment. 
 
R v J – St Albans Crown Court (Operation Keswick)
Prosecuted from trial to conviction. The defendant was found guilty for being concerned in a conspiracy to supply cocaine. The case was part of Operation Keswick and had links to various ‘upstream operations’. Involved surveillance evidence, cell site and mobile phone evidence. Sentenced to 11 years imprisonment.
 
R v Imielinski – Guildford Crown Court 
Successfully mitigated on behalf of defendant caught with 22kg of cannabis. Defendant had previous similar conviction and had been deported but returned to the UK. Defendant was sentenced to 40 months
 
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/driver-caught-m25-22kg-cannabis-7054877
 

Sexual Offences 

R v D – Snaresbrook Crown Court 
Prosecuted the defendant who was a finance solicitor in the city on charges of making indecent images which included the children of his ex-partner. 
 
R v M – Peterborough Crown Court
Successfully defended an allegation of rape. Following a night out, it was alleged that the defendant invited back the complainant to student accommodation located at Anglia University campus and raped her in the presence of his housemates. The defendant denied the allegations advancing that it was consensual sex and that the allegations had been fabricated as the complainant was a virgin, that it was a one night stand and that he did not want a committed relationship. The defendant was unanimously acquitted.
 
R v ID – Snaresbrook Crown Court 
Successfully defended three separate allegations of sexual assault. It was alleged that the defendant sexually assaulted the estate agents young female employee while viewing property. Defence advanced was fabrication. 
 
 
R v Hemphill – Chelmsford Crown Court 
Appeared for the Prosecution. Defendant pleaded guilty to being in possession and distributing indecent images of children, extreme pornography, prohibited images of children and being in breach of a sexual prevention order. He received 3 years and placed indefinitely on the Sexual Offences Register
 
http://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/colchester/14420005.Paedophile_soldier_jailed_for_three_years_for_downloading_and_sending_indecent_images/
 
R v W – Wood Green Crown Court 
Appeared as Prosecution Counsel. Defendant aged 83 was sentenced having pleaded guilty to 4 counts of historic sexual abuse on his step grand daughter. He received 4 and half years and placed indefinitely on the Sexual Offences Register.

Fraud & Financial Crime

R v D & ors – Inner London Crown Court (Operation Hurricane) 
Successfully prosecuted five defendants for conspiracy to steal from cars which had been parked in NCP carparks in and around the Square Mile. It was thought that the gang had stolen millions of pounds worth of goods from hundreds of motorists including a suitcase containing over £100,000 worth of jewellery. 
 
https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2024/april/car-theft-gang-sentenced/#:~:text=Luke Stephen, 38, of Brentwood,and Van Cleef and Arpels.
 
R v B & anor – Snaresbrook Crown Court (Operation Composel) 
Prosecuted to conviction. The case involved a conspiracy of early morning burglaries against banks and other premises in North London using vehicles on cloned plates.  
 
R v Z & anor – Southwark Crown Court 
Defendant was charged with possessing criminal property, namely £60,000, which was found on his co-defendant’s person as well as in the car that the defendant was a passenger in. Following a 7-day trial, the defendant was unanimously acquitted.
 
R v S – Reading Crown Court
Defendant was charged with possessing criminal property, namely £149,000 cash at Heathrow Airport. He pleaded guilty on the first day of trial. Despite stating that an aggravating feature was that the offence had been committed across borders, the Judge imposed an 18-month custodial sentence.

 
R v Petkova & ors – Inner London Crown Court – (UKBA Operation Sakar)
Led Junior representing one of the alleged ‘fixers’ in one of the UK”s biggest sham marriages cases. Proceedings were stayed as an abuse of process on grounds of bad faith and serious misconduct. Only led junior for the defence to be acknowledged in the Judge’s ruling. 
 
R v S – Basildon Crown Court
Appeared for defendant charged with benefit fraud. The case was featured in the BBC Documentary ‘Britain on the Fiddle’. 
 
R v G – Maidstone Crown Court
UK Border Force Officers stopped the lorry that the defendant was driving and recovered 8 million cigarettes. Defendant was indicted for the fraudulent attempt evasion of the duty chargeable namely £2,542,340. Following the service of the defence statement, the case was reviewed and the prosecution offered no evidence. 

 
Confiscation/POCA

R v A – Snaresbrook Crown Court 
Appeared for the Prosecution. Confiscation Order with a Benefit Figure and Available Amount of £760,480.02 was ordered. 
 
R v R – Kingston Crown Court 
Appeared for the Prosecution in a two day contested confiscation hearing which included a former professional footballer giving evidence for the defence. Confiscation Order with a Benefit Figure of £550,738.00 and Available Amount of £329,627.00 was ordered. 
 
R v D – Harrow Crown Court 
Appeared for the Prosecution. Confiscation Order with a Benefit Figure of £370,520 and Available Amount of £329,900 was ordered. 
 
R v A – Harrow Crown Court
Appeared for the Prosecution in a contested Section 10A hearing. The application was dismissed in its entirety and a Confiscation Order of £358,061 was ordered.

Court of Appeal

R v EA – Instructed following conviction to consider whether there were any grounds for appeal against conviction. Appellant was serving a sentence for fraudulent evasion of a prohibition, having been stopped at Manchester Airport in possession of green tea containing raw opium. The matter was referred to and heard before the Full Court of the Court of Appeal with Sir Brian Leveson as the Presiding Judge.
 
R v SPC – The Appellant, a single mother with two children was sentenced for fraud and appealed on the basis that the custodial sentence was ‘manifestly excessive’. Following her imprisonment, her son’s school raised concerns that a once ‘bright student’ was now falling behind in his studies and being influenced by a negative peer group. The Full Court reduced her sentence as ‘an act of mercy’.

High Court/Costs Cases

R v Souleiman – Senior Courts Costs Office – SCCO 174/13
Successfully argued that the litigator was entitled to be remunerated two claims submitted under the same case number on the basis that two counts on the Indictment had been severed to create two trials and therefore two fees. The Litigator was awarded a further £98,000. 
 
The Queen (on the application of J) v The Parole Board
Administrative Court - Renewed application for permission for leave to judicial review Parole Board’s decision not to hold an oral hearing.
Prison Law Cases
Parole Board v H
Successfully represented prisoner at a Lifer Parole Hearing where the Panel released from closed conditions direct to secondary rehabilitation centre.
 
Parole Board v S 
Successfully represented prisoner at Lifer Parole Hearing where the Panel directed a move to open conditions despite the prisoner having previously absconded twice from open conditions. 

Languages Spoken:

Turkish (native)
French (conversational)

Professional Memberships:

South Eastern Circuit
Criminal Bar Association