During his period of practise he built a reputation as a fighter of trials. Hind retired from the bar in 2017. During his period of practice he defended in cases in 26 court centres and frequently appeared in the Court of Appeal. In legal practise Hind specialised in organised crime, murder, drugs, and sex cases. He defended in Triad Moss Side and Salford gang cases. R V Donna Cannon Winchester Crown Court 1993 brothel owner acquitted of perverting the course of justice but convicted of blackmail. Main prosecution witness prosecution fail to disclose is a drug dealer on witness protection programme. Paul Foot of Private Eye championed case which went to Court of Appeal. This was a case involving a former escort agency manageress, Donna Cannon. Cannon was charged with blackmailing one of the agency's clients, James Lawson. Lawson and a friend had sex with an agency girl who told him he did not need to pay the agency fee of £30. Cannon, he said, threatened to accuse him of rape unless he handed over the money. Cannon said that Lawson had sex on different occasions with two girls from the agency who complained to the police. She said she wanted to stop Lawson making any further approaches to the agency and that was why she threatened Lawson with a rape allegation. The prosecutions case rested on Lawson's credibility. He agreed with Cannon's defence barrister, Hind that he had several previous convictions, including dishonesty, forgery and actual bodily harm. Lawson accused the defence counsel, Hind, of trying to blacken his character and repeatedly insisted that he had not been in any trouble for 12 years. The jury at the trial found Cannon guilty of blackmail and sentenced her to 150 hours community service. What made the trial memorable was that Lawson admitted in evidence that his real name was Peter McNeil but refused to answer any questions about his change of name. It emerged after the trial that he had appeared in the witness box at the Old Bailey as a Police Informer giving evidence for the prosecution against 3 Mafia drug smugglers who were members of a gang of which he was part to gain immunity from prosecution. McNeill who had played a big role in the drug smuggling got off without charge in return for giving evidence. The key question is whether the jury in the Cannon trial would have thought differently of Lawson's evidence if they had known of his involvement in the previous trial? Would his involvement with the police as an informer have painted him in a different light at the trial. Hind certainly thought so asking why the defence did not know about Lawson's defence role in the witness box?