Case studies
Our clients approached us following an arrest and interview on suspicion of conspiring to kidnap, s.18 GBH and s.47 ABH. With care and attention given to every move, we persuaded the CPS not to pursue our clients on any of the allegations.
Our client was designer of the heating systems of the Royal Palaces. He was accused of bribing a Palace manager with an experimental domestic boiler. In fact, the boiler hadn't been paid for simply because it did not work. We fought and won the trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Our client was a mother who accepted she had been overpaid £18,000 in benefits after failing to tell the DWP about a change in circumstances. We persuaded the court that this had been a small error. Our client paid back the overpaid benefits and was only fined an extra £80.
Our client was accused of paying bribes for contracts to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure. This case was reported as the World’s Biggest Bribe Scandal. Convictions were finally overturned by the Court of Appeal after we showed that the SFO did not disclose key evidence at trial.
Our client was accused of being the ringleader in a Fraud worth hundreds of thousands of pounds from mis-selling products. He strongly denied this and at trial, the prosecution dropped the charge and accepted a much lesser charge for which had to complete unpaid work as a result.
Our specialist solicitors prepared a substantial mitigation package for a client who was convicted of stealing £20,000 from their employer over a two-year period. We successfully persuaded a judge who was minded to send our client to prison to grant a suspended sentence order.
Our client was a family man, with long history of drug abuse. He was accused of financally benefiting from criminal activity and became the subject of POCA proceedings which had reached the Crown Court. We made a successful challenge to discontinue the case.
Our client was distraught when she approached our firm to represent her at a police interview, after her mother accused her of defrauding her. We represented her at this interview and the police decided to drop the case shortly afterwards.
We ensured that our client received the minimum confiscation order following his conviction for fraud offences, to which he had originally pleaded guilty. This ensured that he did not spend any further time in prison.
Our client pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation after defrauding her employer of over £11,000.
We were instructed to represent her at the Magistrates' Court and persuaded the Court to impose a £200 penalty with no compensation order.
