Criminal Defence

EAD Solicitors LLP's Criminal Defence Department

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

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

EAD Solicitors LLP 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. EAD Solicitors LLP's criminal defence department offers 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 our criminal defence solicitors. We also have expert criminal defence lawyers and accident claim lawyers who can provide the service and support you need for every step of the legal process.

What EAD Solicitors LLP's criminal defence department can do for you

EAD Solicitors LLP 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 Solicitors LLP our criminal defence team of fraud lawyers can assist in dealing with multi jurisdictional evidence gathering in cases of fraud and internet crime needing criminal defence. Our criminal defence team has 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 Solicitors LLP criminal defence 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 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 team leader by virtue of his considerable experience in defending in serious and complex cases involving criminal defence, fraud and corruption.

Leading the EAD Solicitors LLP criminal defence team

Gary Lesin-Davis heads up the criminal defence team 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 Solicitors LLP criminal defence team 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 Solicitors LLP criminal defence team successfully acting, advising or preparing proceedings in the following criminal defence cases:

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

Criminal Defence cases that EAD Solicitors LLP have worked on

EAD Solicitors LLP's criminal defence team 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. EAD Solicitors LLP's criminal defence team are representing a lead defendant charged in an HM Revenue and Customs investigation into a Charity and P.A.Y.E. fraud. EAD Solicitors LLP's criminal defence team successfully represented a suspect in a Fraud Squad investigation into an alleged Department of Education and Skills procurement fraud.

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

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