William Boyce QC and Jason Mansell acted for Guillaume Adolph in respect of the FCA’s investigation as to whether he had been knowingly concerned in a breach by Deutsche Bank of Principle 5 (market conduct).
Continues the long association that QEB Hollis Whiteman members have with the post of Treasury Counsel.
In R (Hart and others) v HMRC [2017] EWHC 3091 (Admin) the four claimants were successful in their claim for judicial review of search warrants obtained by HMRC at Blackfriars Crown Court in respect of an alleged tax evasion scheme. After a two-day hearing,...
Congratulations to QEB Hollis Whiteman's Crispin Aylett who was awarded Crime Silk of the Year last night at the Chambers UK Annual Bar Awards dinner at the Park Lane Hilton....
Susannah Stevens represented a nurse facing contempt of court proceedings brought by the FCA for breach of a restraint order at Southwark Crown Court....
Edward Brown QC appointed lead prosecuting Counsel.
Tom Kark QC and Fraser Coxhill act for CPS/HSE in joint prosecution.
QEB Hollis Whiteman member Crispin Aylett QC is featured today as The Times Lawyer of the Week. Crispin was in the news recently as he acted for the Serious Fraud Office in the UK’s first Deferred Prosecution Agreement under which ICBC Standard...
Polly Dyer acted as junior counsel for the FCA in the confiscation hearings against the last two defendants convicted as a result of Operation Cotton one of the FCA's largest investigations. Confiscation orders have now been made against all of the eight...
Following his guilty plea in November to two counts of insider trading, Mark Lyttleton was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
QEB Hollis Whiteman member Rhys Meggy represented SS, the sales manager of an FCA-regulated payment services provider accused of abusing her access to client onboarding systems to launder part of the the proceeds of £1.5million in cash derived from...
Rhys Meggy barrister at QEB Hollis Whiteman represented DC, a renovator of luxury properties, in his successful appeal against sentence at the Court of Appeal. His sentence was reduced from 3 to 2 years' imprisonment. At Southwark Crown Court DC had...
