Corporate Crime Legal Specialists
In response to the ever-increasing criminal
liability of both organisations and their key individuals, Hugh
James has developed a specialist team to ensure that our
clients’ rights and interests are protected.
Corporate crime specialist
lawyers
In response to the ever-increasing
criminal liability of both organisations and their key individuals,
Hugh James has developed a specialist team to ensure that our
clients’ rights and interests are protected.
Please read about our:
Hugh James corporate crime legal service
The Hugh James Corporate Crime
Team deals with linked disciplinary investigations by
professional regulators relating to alleged misconduct against
doctors, nurses, opticians, pharmacists, dentists, solicitors,
financial advisers and accountants.
We are familiar with the
rights and obligations of those under investigation,
confidentiality and disclosure requirements, and the range and
potential impact of enforcement action.
The Corporate Crime
Team makes it a priority to safeguard our clients throughout
the entire process of investigation and prosecution.
To this end we have
developed a unique First Response service
which:
- provides 24 hour emergency legal advice 365 days a year
- ensures immediate deployment of a solicitor to your
location
- offers a comprehensive service throughout the length of
the case
- delivers results
We will be right at your
side when regulators and/or investigators seek to compel responses
from you to questions and make you produce confidential or
sensitive documents.
We ensure that staff are
supported in interviews with the police and other agencies such as
the FSA or HSE ensuring key evidence is secured.
Areas of corporate crime expertise include:
- Access to samples, medical records, data
protection confidentiality and privilege.
- Advice on investigations by various
agencies
- Employment law obligations
- Liaising with the police, health and
safety executive or environment agency
- Representation at police or regulators’
interviews, including those conducted under caution
- Witness support
We will continue to
represent the business throughout the court process providing the
most effective representation such as our own in-house advocates
which includes a Queen’s Counsel.
We also have strong links
with barristers' chambers both locally and in London enabling us to
provide our clients with the very best legal representation at
the most competitive rates.
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Our corporate crime and regulatory experience
Hugh James regulatory and
corporate crime team are acknowledged as leaders in our field and
have a broad experience of representing corporate clients in
investigations including the following:
- Health and Safety at Work
- Regulatory compliance including the Residential Care Sector,
Food Safety and Fire Safety Breaches
- Companies Act Prosecutions
- Investigations by OFT, consumer protection and unfair
practices
- Investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch of
BERR
- Asset forfeiture and confiscation
- Money Laundering and the Regulated Sector
- Environmental Protection
- Data Protection
- Copyright Protection
- HMRC investigations
- Financial Services Authority (FSA) investigations and
enforcement
- Road Traffic Prosecutions relating to the operation of business
fleets
- Trading Standards
- Trade Marks Act