Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy

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Julians’ specialism in serious crime, public law and family law can be seen in the following array of cases listed below. These are just a snapshot of some of the many cases Julian has been involved with over the years; Selected Cases I fully understand and sympathise with why she’s made that case. But it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny – and it certainly wasn’t believed by the jury in his trial.” He didn't provide them with particularly good information, and the Czechs were disappointed about that," he says. "I'm not sure he gave away any great state secrets." He can't sue, he's dead Preston sees echoes of the 1970s in today’s politics, which may explain the interest in re-examining these stories. “The parallels are coincidental, and I hope our drama is a funny and a poignant story. I don’t want to tell the audience that this guy is a dreadful person. I want them to decide,” he said. Stonehouse's eventual resignation, from a British prison in 1976, caused prime minister James Callaghan's Labour government to lose its knife-edge majority, forcing them into a coalition with the Liberal Party.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/michael-mansfield-and-peter-oborne-speak-event-launch-new-book-ricin-trial Hayes was nine years old when Stonehouse faked his death. His father, Stonehouse’s nephew and business partner, later gave evidence against him in court. R -v- Arshad murder trial (2018) where Julian successfully defended the co defendant gaining acquittal in respect of kidnapping charges A new three-part drama, Stonehouse — streaming in Australia on Brit Box from January 17 — stars real-life couple Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Pride and Prejudice) and Keeley Hawes (The Durrells, Spooks) who play on-screen husband and wife John and Barbara Stonehouse.I did find out something about his past in the 1960s, which will surprise people who haven’t kept up-to-date with Stonehouse. I would have liked more detail about that, because it’s something I was less aware of that point in his life. In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Julian Paul Hayes is an Author and a Criminal and Family Lawyer. His most notable publication is "Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy" Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy was released on 22nd July 2021. The book documents the life and times of disgraced Labour MP, John Stonehouse John Stonehouse who was the authors great uncle. Julian has been involved in numerous high-profile criminal cases, including the Essex Lorry Deaths, as well as the 2003 Ricin terrorist case, Ricin Case 2003 and the cyber-terrorist case of Younes Tsouli This book is a brief account of the life of John Stonehouse, with particular emphasis on his botched attempt to fake his own suicide (and the subsequent trial).

She claims Stonehouse's behaviour can partly be attributed to his addiction to, overdose on and withdrawal from now-banned prescription drug Mandrax, which caused a breakdown. 'One long apology for a man who never apologised'When you do what you say you’re going to do, you build self-respect and a positive identity. Successful people understand that every time you break the promises you make to yourself, you feed your identity as an impostor and weaken your self-confidence as a person of action. In an extraordinary turn of events, Stonehouse's wife and mistress both flew to Australia separately following his arrest. He tried to convince them to allow him to continue seeing them both. Barbara Stonehouse later filed for divorce. Here's what seems to be objectively and unanimously irrefutable in all accounts of John Stonehouse. Either Stonehouse was not as clever as he thought – or too clever for his own good making this one of the most bizarre non-fiction stories I have read to date. His daughter has already complained to Ofcom about the content of this year’s Channel 4 documentary about the scandal, The Spy Who Died Twice, which came to similarly damning conclusions.

Julia Stonehouse wanted to share documents with the team making the drama but was not welcomed, she claims. She believes the Czech handlers who said they paid her father were simply boasting to please their Soviet masters. I literally consumed the book in just a few hungry sittings . . . most definitely a must read’ DR SALEYHA AHSAN, filmmaker and journalist, CambridgeIn 1998 Julian moved to London and the following year started his own practice in West London. His reputation has grown and flourished. Thinking his political life may be over if his party lost the next election Stonehouse, with the help of his nephew, lawyer Michael Hayes, set up several banking business ventures looking forward to a comfortable financial life. Julian is also a published author with the book Stonehouse – Cabinet minister, Fraudster, Spy the biography of the politician John Stonehouse a true story of political intrigue, espionage, a disappearance and an Old Bailey trial. One thing Stonehouse's living relatives agree on is that his story has become distorted and sensationalised over the years. The lengths and heartless lies of the betrayal and deception John Stonehouse would tell and go through to become one of Britain’s notorious leaders/enemy, is incomprehensible.

Julian was for a number of years a member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association holding the posts of junior vice president and vice president. Julian was actively involved in the organisation of protests in Parliament square and the successful campaign against the proposed devastating legal aid reforms to be introduced by Chris Grayling and his successor Michael Gove. Julian is a member of the Crime Duty Solicitor Panel, he is also Law Society Child Panel Member and also has Higher Courts (All Proceedings) Advocacy Rights. Professional memberships This latest offering on the saga is more like a comedy than a drama about such as serious episode in our political history. It is disappointing as the reality is far more dramatically compelling and interesting than the version that has been created in this TV production. There are so many more layers to the story, including numerous levels of betrayal, political and constitutional ramifications in this country, as well as Australia, and to a lesser extent in the US – not to mention the familial fallout. Julian has undertaken a wide variety of work with particular specialism in serious crime involving murder, terrorism, serious frauds, drugs and conspiracy cases.The daughter, who has worked as a ghostwriter for 30 years, offers us the case for the defence. She argues that her late father was the victim of vicious and inaccurate newspapers, disloyal colleagues, rightwingers seeking to discredit the Wilson government and rogue elements in the British secret services. Financial pressures and the stress of knowing that he was suspected of being a spy were accompanied by the excessive use of prescription drugs. This combination drove him to do “absolutely mad, out-of-character things” and commit a form of “psychological suicide” when he attempted to disappear. Julian has represented clients on some of the most high profile criminal cases over the last 20 years. At the centre of the mini-series is a dramatic family dispute between Julia, Stonehouse's daughter and a professional ghost writer, and Julian, his great-nephew and a criminal lawyer.