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- Stunning Week of Success for LNL and Our Criminal Lawyers, Specialist Extradition Lawyers, and Driving Offence Lawyers
24 June 2013
Crime & Fraud Cases
Stunning Week of Success for LNL and Our Criminal Lawyers, Specialist Extradition Lawyers, and Driving Offence Lawyers
24 June 2013
| Crime & Fraud Cases
- Siobhain Egan acted for two City accountants cleared of money laundering allegations.
- A client represented by Penny Muir and Sam Trefgarne was acquitted of sexual assault by penetration, sexual assault and common assault after a trial lasting five days at Bournemouth Crown Court. The prosecution argued that after a night out, the complainant had returned to the client’s hotel room and non-consensual sexual contact took place. The defence said that everything that took place was consensual. The jury returned unanimous not guilty verdicts after two hours of deliberation.
- James Reilly (one of our specialist traffic offence solicitors) represented a client who faced an allegation of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle. He was found by police in the driving seat of the vehicle, keys in the ignition and was three times over the driving alcohol limit. Answers extracted by police during detailed questioning were ruled inadmissible under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, and as a result of James’s robust legal submissions and medical evidence we showed that it would have been impossible for him to have attempted to drive. The client was acquitted.
- Danny Barnard, another of our specialist motoring offence lawyers, represented an individual who faced a six month driving ban as a result of being a ‘totter’ i.e. having 12 points on his driving licence. The client was a self-employed businessman living in London with his family, whose office and staff were in the Midlands and who had business projects up and down the country. His inability to drive had badly affected the business; in fact it had an immediate and marked effect upon it. Danny argued, on appeal to Kingston Crown Court, that following the judgement in Brennan v McKay, economic hardship and difficulties can amount to ‘exceptional hardship’. We were able to provide cogent evidence supporting the problems which the business had faced since the imposition of the ban, which the Court accepted and reduced the ban by three months, which meant that the client was able to resume driving immediately after the hearing.
- Sean Reilly (brother of the above) is one of our specialist extradition lawyers, whose client faced a European warrant issued by the Polish government. Thanks to Sean's consummate legal skills, the warrant was quashed.
- Danny Barnard secured the acquittal of a client facing an allegation of blackmail in relation to a custody dispute of a child. As a result of Danny's tenacious and thorough cross-examination, the fundamental and glaring inconsistencies of the complainant’s allegations came to light and the client was acquitted by the Jury.
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