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Kangs Solicitors has successfully defended our client, a fifty-five years old woman with no previous convictions, who was tried at Southwark Crown Court for alleged offences of converting / transferring criminal property and using criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). Helen Holder of Kangs Solicitors reports on this highly successful outcome. Kangs Solicitors fields an […]

Gloucester Crown Court has recently imposed a massive fine upon Morrisons following the sad death of an employee, Matthew Gunn, occasioned by catastrophic head injuries suffered at its supermarket store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. At an inquest in May 2016, a Jury found that Mr Gunn’s death was an accident but added that Morrisons had missed […]

‘Disclosure’ is the process followed during the course of court proceedings to ensure that all parties are fully aware of all documents that are available which may have a bearing on the case which they are contesting and that they are produced. The description ‘document’ is very wide and includes all forms of recorded information, […]

In circumstances where a defendant has been found guilty of committing a criminal offence, as the result of a Jury verdict following a Trial at court or a Plea of Guilty having been made, it falls to a Judge, the Sentencing Judge, to consider and pass the appropriate Sentence. Such consideration normally takes place at […]

It has recently been heavily reported in the national press that a twenty-two years old woman has been sentenced to imprisonment for eight-and-a-half years following conviction for nine counts of ‘perverting the course of justice’ by falsely claiming that she was the victim of sexual abuse and rape.    For further Press details please follow the […]

As opposed to most crimes, where the offender is attracted to some form of object which the victim controls or possesses, hate crime is motivated by the personal standing of the victim, is one motivated by prejudice involving, normally, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation and is regularly accompanied by an act of violence. A victim […]