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Encrochat: Acquittal
Deepak Vij, Partner at ABV Solicitors and Senior Solicitor Rohit Sharma successfully induce the CPS to offer no evidence on a multi-million-pound EncroChat case concerning a conspiracy to import a vast amount of class A drugs. Challenges were made to the attribution evidence of an EncroChat handle which was linked to the defendant. Counsel instructed…
Read MoreEssex Lorry Deaths
Jury retire at the Old Bailey to consider the verdict of our client who is being accused of the manslaughter of 39 migrants, in the Essex lorry people-smuggling plot. Our Claire Anderson is instructed in this case. BBC News
Read MoreAcquittal: Sexual Offence
Claire Hewitt secures an acquittal for our client charged with sexual assault and kidnap. Stephan Alfred from Foundry Chambers instructed as Counsel.
Read MoreSuspended Sentence
Mel Kelemework and our instructed Advocate, Shaheen Rahman, achieve a suspended sentence for our client charged with attempting to export 50 Kilos of Cannabis at Southwark Crown Court.
Read MoreBest Law Firms 2021
ABV Solicitors recognised by The Times in their Annual Guide to the top 200 UK Law Firms. The link to The Times Annual Guide can be found here.
Read MoreExonerated: Iraq Fatality Investigation
Robert Borwick, Partner at ABV Solicitors and Tom Blackburn represented one of the soldiers exonerated in the Iraq Fatality Investigation following a ruling given by Baroness Hallett. The Iraq Fatality Investigation was headed up by Sir George Newman where a Major in the British Army and two soldiers were subject matters of this investigation. The…
Read MoreAcquittal
Robert Borwick, Partner at ABV, successfully defends a Company Director facing a single allegation of rape. In one of the few effective trials post lockdown, our client was unanimously acquitted by a the jury at Stafford Crown Court. Jane Bickerstaff QC from 9 Bedford Row represented our client at trial.
Read MoreNo Further Action
Claire Anderson successfully achieves no further action for our client, a medical student, following submissions to the CPS, who was facing allegations of sexual assault.
Read MoreEssex Lorry Deaths
Claire Anderson of ABV Solicitors instructed by Eamonn Harrison, charged in connection with the Vietnamese immigrant container death case. Further information: BBC News
Read MoreNo Further Action – Fraud
No Further Action taken against our client facing a £140,000 benefit fraud allegation who was alleged to have assisted others in obtaining benefits. Successful outcome achieved by our Ashwinder Gill.
Read MoreEncroChat Phones – Hacked
Deepak Vij, Partner at ABV Solicitors, discusses the events so far in an Article and with the Mail Online following raids carried out by the NCA and the Met Police.
Read More£250m Money Laundering: No Further Action
Akhtar Ahmad and Iram Iqbal successfully achieve no further action for our client facing a £250 million money laundering investigation.
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