Case Studies
Fraud
R –v- R & others [2004]
R was the senior partner of what was at the time the largest criminal legal aid firm in the country. The Serious Fraud Office raided their five offices in the West Country and eventually members of the firm ranging from the senior partner through to legal clerks were arrested and tried for fraud.
It was the Crown’s case that the firm bolstered its earnings through fraudulent practices, to the extent that some of the employees were found to have even invented fictitious clients.
The initial searches of the solicitors offices took place in 1995, however due to the amount of material seized and the scope of the investigation, the last trial did not conclude until 2004.
This case generated the largest amount of unused material known in a case brought before the courts and this firm had the required capacity and skill to represent not one but two of the defendants charged.
