Special Casework Unit for Fraud and Business Crime

Farleys - Serious Fraud Solicitors

Farleys Solicitors has one of the most experienced teams of business crime and serious fraud solicitors in the UK. As one of the earliest successful applicants to the Serious Fraud Panel when it was set up by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) in 2000/2001, we have worked on a comprehensive range of serious fraud and criminal law cases throughout the country, often with international dimensions.

We created the Special Casework Unit (SCU) as a specialist department with the task of handling the defence of clients accused of significant personal and business crimes. Our fraud and serious crime solicitors have experience of handling cases involving everything from massive frauds to murder and terrorism.

In January 2008, the LSC formed a national panel of solicitors with the requisite experience and resources to defend clients in very high cost cases (VHCC). Farleys met the stringent qualifying standards and were invited to join the VHCC panel, allowing us to continue to handle cases involving the most complex, extensive and severe examples of fraud and business crime.

The Farleys Special Casework Unit (SCU)

The SCU is composed of a number of distinct teams of serious crime solicitors, each specialising in key areas of criminal law.

The unit was established over ten years ago in order to ensure that complex, specialist and serious criminal cases were dealt with by a department with the necessary resources and experience to provide clients with the highest standards of representation.

The SCU aims to become involved in cases pertaining to serious fraud, business crime or any other serious crime, at the earliest possible stage, ideally prior to interview by the Police, SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency), HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs), SFO (Serious Fraud Office) or any other Government agency. We will thereafter provide sustained and vigorous legal advice and attention throughout the course of the case.

Legal Services for Fraud and Business Crime Clients

Our vibrant Criminal Law Department is experienced in tackling criminal defence work and commercial litigation as a result of serious fraud. Solicitors involved with the SCU are capable of working in all areas, that is with the Police, Magistrates, Crown Courts and Courts of Appeal on behalf of their clients.

Our expertise and experience in the field of serious fraud and business crime includes:

• VAT fraud - carousel / MTIC / evasion
• Other HMRC Prosecutions e.g.: evasion of duty / tobacco smuggling / red diesel
• Money laundering
• Conspiracy to defraud
• Electoral fraud
• Confiscation proceedings
• Restraint proceedings
• Extradition (linked to serious fraud or criminal cases)
• Trading Standards cases
• Financial Services Authority cases
• Corporate manslaughter
• Health & Safety cases
• Professional disciplinary proceedings
• Environmental cases
• DEFRA cases
• Medicines Act cases
• Company Directors Disqualification Act cases

Contact the Farleys SCU

Farleys' consistent membership of what has been recently renamed the Specialist Fraud Panel, demonstrates a great vote of confidence from the LSC; continuing membership is only awarded to those firms which demonstrate exceptional standards of serious fraud defence. In addition, Paul Schofield was appointed from the outset as a supervisor by the LSC in serious fraud work and Farleys now boasts three additional supervisors namely Kevin Preston, Rachel Adamson and Bridgette Hibbert.

Whether you are located in the Northwest of England or indeed literally anywhere else, call 0845 050 1958 to contact one of the country's most experienced teams of fraud and serious crime solicitors. Alternatively, e-mail us.