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8 Mar 2021 11:47
Thomas Acworth acts for serving Grenadier Guard in serial sweetheart frauds3PB’s specialist crime barrister Thomas Acworth acted for Lance Corporal (LCpl) Nathan Walker, a serving soldier in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. LCpl Walker pleaded guilty to defrauding three vulnerable women he met on dating apps in order to finance his gambling addiction. There was some more...
28 Feb 2020 15:26
SFO v Airbus (2020)On 31 January 2020, Dame Victoria Sharp PQBD gave final public approval to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (‘DPA’) between the Serious Fraud Office and Airbus SE, relating to historic failures to prevent bribery and corruption offences in multiple jurisdictions over the period 2011 to 2015. Ben more...
A Guide to Directors Disqualification Proceedings in England and Wales
Company Directors are at risk of being disqualified under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 from holding office following investigations which may take place if their company becomes insolvent or there is other alleged wrongdoing. This short guide is intended to help company directors more...
Cash Forfeiture and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Cash forfeiture is the process whereby money that has been seized by authorised individuals, such as the police or financial investigators, can be forfeited to the state following a hearing in the Magistrates’ Court under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Other agencies which utilise these more...
13 Nov 2019 12:42
Grahame James was instructed to represent Jordan Northover charged with the attempted robbery of two Arsenal footballers, Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac.Grahame James was instructed to represent Jordan Northover by Daniel Godden of Berkeley Square Solicitors, charged with the attempted robbery of two Arsenal footballers, Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac. The entire incident was caught on Kolasinac's home CCTV. Mr. Northover admitted the offence and more...
31 Oct 2019 09:58
Defendant represented by Kim Whittlestone spared immediate prison sentence after admitting theft and forgeryIn a case defended by Kim Whittlestone from Exchange Chambers, a bride-to-be has been spared an immediate prison sentence after admitting theft and forgery. Rachel Doran, 32, from Cumbria, was trusted with £11,160 collected by ex Chris Mahone and more than 30 of his friends for a stag party in Ibiza more...
25 Sep 2019 10:35
No5 Barristers’ Chambers advocates defend footballer blackmail case accusedTwo counsel from No5 are representing the defence in a blackmail case featuring a premier league footballer at Bristol Crown Court. Phil Bradley QC is representing former Take Me Out contestant Tyrone Coleman and Talbir Singh is representing his brother, Nathan, over allegations they jointly, with more...
17 Sep 2019 10:25
Ian Whitehurst successfully prosecutes Push Payment FraudIan Whitehurst from Exchange Chambers has successfully prosecuted a Push Payment Fraud in which an elderly Cumbrian flood victim was duped out of more than £64,000 by crooks posing as fraud investigators. It was in October, 2016, that two persuasive fraudsters – never traced – duped the unsuspecting more...
4 Sep 2019 10:07
Re-trial ordered for appellants previously convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Hong Kong Stock ExchangeHKSAR v Keen and Ors [2019] HKCFA 32 The appellants were charged and convicted on two counts of conspiracy to defraud. There were two separate particulars pertaining to each count, each involving different appellants. The trial judge convicted all appellants on both counts and sentenced them each more...
23 Jul 2019 10:02
Rob Dudley prosecutes dementia-faker who hid her father’s death for £750,000 benefit fraudIn a case prosecuted by Rob Dudley from Exchange Chambers, an amateur actress who feigned dementia and hid her father’s death for 12 years so she could claim £750,000 in public funds faces jail for one of the largest ever cases of benefit fraud by a single person. When Ethel McGill’s father died in more...
13 Jun 2019 13:53
TV Celebrity Motorway Cop keeps his job after public misconduct hearing finds two allegations Not ProvenA police officer represented by Richard Littler QC from Exchange Chambers (instructed by Bryan McMahon of Burton Copeland Solicitors) has kept his job after a public misconduct hearing. PC Angus Nairn, 52, who appeared on TV show Motorway Cops, received a final written warning after two of the three more...
6 Jun 2019 13:35
Conwoman jailed for three years3PB's Berenice Mulvanny acted in a case against a 'vindictive conwoman' who made more than £100,000 on a sugar daddy website by 'catfishing' married men before blackmailing them has been jailed for nearly three years. Reports in the Daily Mail state that Shannon Lee, 21, from Netley Abbey near more...
30 May 2019 10:09
John Wyn Williams appears on behalf of solicitor in fraud and forgery caseA former solicitor has been jailed for four years and two months after admitting changing clients’ wills for his own benefit. Peter Charles Davies, 62, from Abergwyngregyn, near Bangor, Gwynedd, cost them £241,000 combined, Mold Crown Court was told. Davies admitted seven charges including fraud and more...
23 May 2019 08:57
Ian Whitehurst successfully prosecutes torture gangActing as leading junior and instructed by Mersey Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service, Ian Whitehurst from Exchange Chambers has successfully prosecuted a gang who posed as police officers to kidnap a man before torturing him for 18 hours as part of a £200,000 ransom plot. The man was beaten with more...
10 Jan 2019 13:18
R v A (2018)Zara Brawley successfully applied to allow A, an elderly man of good character, to withdraw his guilty plea to possessing a false identity document under the Identity Documents Act 2010. The police, CPS, District Judge and A’s previous solicitors had all failed to realise that the document in A’s more...
22 Nov 2018 09:41
Alexandra Felix prosecutes man given six-year sentence for Grenfell fraudSharife Elouahabi was given a six-year sentence at Isleworth Crown Court having falsely claimed more than £100,000 intended for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. Mr Elouahabi had claimed he had been staying with relatives in a flat on the 21st floor of the tower block. In his sentencing remarks, more...
22 Oct 2018 10:09
Sean Larkin QC and Tom Broomfield appear in ex-UBS compliance officer insider trading matterFabiana Abdel-Malek, a former compliance officer at UBS, appears today at Southwark Crown Court charged with five counts of insider trading. Walid Chocair, a day trader, is also on trial accused of placing trades in stocks based upon insider information supplied by Ms Abdel-Malek. Sean Larkin QC has more...
Private Prosecutions
PRIVATE PROSECUTIONS Private prosecutions are undertaken from the very outset when a magistrate’s court information is drafted right through to trial & appeal. Examples of private prosecutions I have been involved in include; • Acting on behalf of a husband when the wife had made false allegations more...
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