Author: Richard Summerscales

Sasha Wass QC (for the Serious Fraud Office) and David Perry QC, Miranda Hill, Will Hays and Katherine Hardcastle (for the company, represented by Slaughter and May) were instructed on the successful conclusion of a deferred prosecution agreement between the SFO and Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, a subsidiary of John Wood Group plc. This […]

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Chambers are delighted to welcome Catherine Brown as a new member of Chambers following her departure from Furnival Chambers. […]

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Peter Ratliff and Tom Williams prosecuted PC Kashif Mahmood and 5 others in what the police watchdog described as one of the worst cases of police corruption. Mahmood worked for an organised crime group, unlawfully seizing cash from rival couriers and misusing police computers. He was jailed for 8 years, with co-conspirators receiving sentences of […]

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Following a trial at Bristol Crown Court, Pret a Manger were found not guilty of an offence contrary to the Food Safety Act 1990. The jury accepted that the company had taken all reasonable precautions and acted with all due diligence to prevent a customer being sold a sandwich which contained a substance to which […]

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Tom Williams prosecuted Ben Hannam, a Constable in the Metropolitan Police who was convicted of a terrorism offence after he joined the proscribed group National Action. Read the full news article here. […]

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Sasha Wass QC becomes a member of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list for her various Criminal work as well as crossing into ‘civil waters’ in defence of Libel Claim against The Sun from Actor Johnny Depp. See here for more information. […]

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Mohsin Zaidi’s work with the SFO on the cases ‘Anna Machkevitch’ and ‘Airbus’ along with his newly released memoir ‘A Dutiful boy’ means he has become a member of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list. See here for more information.   […]

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Aftab Jafferjee QC defended in the Essex Lorry Deaths trial. 39 Vietnamese migrants died while in an airtight freight container being transported from Europe to the UK. The defendants, being sentenced for manslaughter and conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration, received sentences of between 27 years and 3 years’ imprisonment. See the full news coverage here: […]

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Alison Morgan QC and Ben Lloyd appeared at the Central Criminal Court for the prosecution in the case of Khairi Saadallah, which saw the defendant receive the first whole life order since 2019 for the terrorist murders of three men and the attempted murder of three others in Reading last summer. Read the news coverage […]

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Former member of Chambers Judge Joanna Korner has been elected as an International Criminal Court Judge. Judge Joanna Korner has been selected to be the United Kingdom candidate to fill the vacancy open as Judge Howard Morrison QC completes his term. Chambers would like to congratulate Judge Joanna Korner on this tremendous achievement. […]

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