Criminal Defence Solicitor

The specialist fraud and criminal defence department at EAD Solicitors is dedicated to giving clients facing criminal defence proceedings the very best service. As members of the Specialist Fraud Panel, the criminal defence solicitors have particular experience in dealing with serious fraud prosecutions relating to Revenue and Customs offences, conspiracies to defraud and fraudulent trading. The EAD criminal defence solicitor team have experience in dealing with offences involving international money laundering and a criminal defence solicitor at EAD Solicitors can assist you in dealing with Restraint and Confiscation orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Call us for criminal defence advice today on 0151 735 1000!

If you need criminal defence advice, then you're in the right place

EAD is a law firm you can trust to help you achieve your criminal defence case objectives. We are a dynamic and progressive Legal 500 firm, with a team that strives to deliver criminal defence advice to all clients who need it. The EAD criminal defence solicitors offer a wide range of criminal defence and legal services including medical negligence, wills and probate and personal injury claims. If you require a criminal defence solicitor, you can get a free online quote before you call. Criminal defence advice is always available from a criminal defence solicitor at EAD Solicitors. We also have expert criminal defence solicitors and accident claim lawyers who can provide the service and support you need for every step of the legal process.

What an EAD's criminal defence solicitor can do for you

EAD can advise and assist with criminal defence, those involved in criminal investigations into alleged procurement fraud. This can involve allegations by the Police or the Office of Fair Trading where you need criminal defence because it is alleged that parties have sought to collude or gain an unfair advantage. Where allegations of public sector corruption and criminal defence may be needed. At EAD a criminal defence solicitor can assist in dealing with multi jurisdictional evidence gathering in cases of fraud and internet crime needing criminal defence. Our criminal defence solicitors have also successfully mounted applications in many foreign countries to obtain evidence for use in criminal defence trials in this country by means of mutual legal assistance provisions and treaties, and by the use of Judicial Letters of Request for criminal defence.

The head of the EAD criminal defence solicitor team

Gary Lesin-Davis became a criminal defence solicitor in 1986 and has been a partner at the firm since 1989 where he now heads up the specialist fraud and criminal defence department. As head of the criminal defence solicitor team, Gary is the Legal Service Commission's designated fraud panel supervising solicitor and is a qualified Higher Courts Criminal Advocate. Gary holds the position of criminal defence solicitor team leader by virtue of his considerable experience in defending in serious and complex cases involving criminal defence, fraud and corruption.

Leading the EAD criminal defence solicitor team

Gary Lesin-Davis heads up the criminal defence solicitors and his expertise in criminal defence covers tax fraud and in particular the fraudulent evasion of VAT as well as dealing with criminal defence matters concerning asset restraint and confiscation proceedings. Gary has a particular interest in criminal defence in regard to assisting those suspected in investigations where collusion in procurement processes is alleged. Gary recently successfully represented a lead Defendant in a major criminal defence case for a high profile procurement fraud. He has also worked on Internet copyright and trade mark criminal defence cases investigated by specialist High Tech Crime Units.

The best in criminal defence cases

The EAD criminal defence solicitors proactively represents a range of clients who are the subject of multi jurisdictional criminal defence investigation. Some of our most recent instructions have included the EAD criminal defence solicitors successfully acting, advising or preparing proceedings in the following criminal defence cases:

An EAD criminal defence solicitor represented a lead Defendant in criminal defence proceedings at Southwark Crown Court charged with corruption, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering at the Millennium Dome. The Defendant was acquitted of all charges after trial.

EAD's criminal defence solicitors have experience in preparing proceedings acting and advising in mutual legal assistance applications.

Criminal Defence cases that EAD have worked on

EAD's criminal defence solicitors assisted a defendant charged in the largest ever computer hacking copyright and trademark case prosecuted thus far in the U.K. this was a criminal defence case. An EAD criminal defence solicitor is representing a lead defendant charged in an HM Revenue and Customs investigation into a Charity and P.A.Y.E. fraud. EAD's criminal defence solicitor team successfully represented a suspect in a Fraud Squad investigation into an alleged Department of Education and Skills procurement fraud.

EAD's criminal defence solicitor team is assisting an individual in a British Transport Police investigation arising from the Hednesford Railway fatal accident investigation. EAD's criminal defence solicitor team was involved with a defendant charged with Conspiracy to cheat the Inland Revenue involving an "insider fraud".