Today’s Budget announcement has important practical implications for business owners. With the British economy in a dangerous state, the government was under pressure to deliver a programme for growth. Here is our quick guide to help you assess what this  Budget mean for you: Forecasts • The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects the British […]

A Metropolitan Police Service officer has been convicted of a common assault following an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. PC Karl Bartlett, from the MPS’s Territorial Support Group, was convicted of assaulting a 14 year-old-boy, a passenger in a vehicle he had stopped, following a four day trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. PC […]

A Hertfordshire man has been sentenced to 2 years and 8 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to 37 charges of possessing and importing indecent images of children. It follows a joint investigation by our officers and Hertfordshire Constabulary. Graham Benjamin Phillips, of Railway Terrace, Kings Langley, had been stopped by our officers at Dover’s Eastern […]

Legal aid bill: government suffers defeats in the Lords The government has been defeated in six key votes during the first two days of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill’s report stage, and has been forced into offering concessions in several other important areas. During the first day of debate on […]

Press Release – 6 March 2012 We represent Charles Spiropoulos in proceedings at the Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with a number of others with one count of conspiracy to defraud by false representation, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Mr Spiropoulos was a solicitor and a partner at […]