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DTI Enquiries & Investigations

 

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DEPARTMENT
The department has considerable experience in the defence of allegation of VAT evasion, Inland Revenue prosecutions, DTI enquiries and investigations, together with the associated knowledge of the regulatory framework governing business operations. The department has become heavily involved in the representation of Defendants subject to confiscation and restraint orders and the more recently introduced proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime legislation.

All members of the department from Partner to the most junior level are committed to obtaining the best result and outcome for all clients and to minimise the undoubted pressure that will be felt by each client and their family. We have the energy, the expertise and experience to ensure that no stone is left unturned in preparing a defence and ensuring that you and your family get the result you want.

 

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Steven Barker
John Perry
Andrew Picken
Vinay Verma


SAMPLE CASES
R -v- Roger Levitt representing the named Defendant
One of the most spectacular and high profile cases which continues still to attract the headlines. The Levitt group crashed with debts estimated in the region of 35 Million Pounds and the Chairman Roger Levitt and other board Directors were charged with 102 counts eventually reduced to one of fraudulent trading. With the tabloid and financial press baying for at least 10 years in Prison we were able to minimize the Prosecution case and eventually plead guilty to a very limited form of fraudulent trading resulting in community service for Roger Levitt. The outcome produced uproar in the national press and indeed in the Houses of Parliament.
R -v- Lord Brockett
Subsequently labeled as "Lord Fraud" but since then "Brocket the Rocket", a star of I’m a Celebrity. The case was very high profile and has been the subject of many articles and documentaries.
R -v- Joyti De-Laurey - Southwark Crown Court
Another extraordinarily high profile case in which the main Defendant Joyti De-Laurey was alleged to have stolen several million pounds from Directors of her employers, Goldman Sachs. Again the subject of many articles worldwide and forthcoming documentaries.
R-v-Parkinson & Others - Winchester Crown Court
We represented one of the two defendants acquitted in this matter, which was a multi-million pound construction fraud involving a charitable trust. Allegations were on of a conspiracy involving an Architect, Professional Quantity Surveyors and the Building Contractors.
The case started in October 2002 and the jury finally returned verdicts in late February 2004 after some two weeks deliberation. The case is one of the longest jury trials in British legal history.


 

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