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22nd Oct 2018News

Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittal for Client Charged with Multi-Million Pound Conspiracy to Manufacture, Import, Export and Distribute Anabolic Steroids (Class C drugs)

Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley secure acquittal for client charged with multi-million pound conspiracy to manufacture, import, export and distribute Anabolic Steroids (Class C drugs). Arrests were made after the large volumes of drugs were seized at a London airport. This prosecution resulted from a growing epidemic of anabolic steroid use among image-obsessed young people. […]

22nd Oct 2018News

Craig Ferguson Secures the Acquittal of Topcon Construction Ltd

The Company faced alternative counts under section 2 and 3 of HSWA following the collapse of a 12 metre lighting column during installation, which caused significant head injuries to a labourer. The premises of the HSE’s case included breaches of the principal contractor’s CDM duties, the duty to plan, supervise and carry out lifting operations […]

19th Oct 2018Newsletters

Business Crime & Financial Services Autumn Newsletter

Welcome to this Autumn edition of 2 Hare Court’s Business Crime Group newsletter; we hope that it finds you refreshed after a summer break. In this edition, Oliver Glasgow QC and Ben Rich discuss the first challenge to an Unexplained Wealth Order which was brought by Mrs Hajiyeva, who infamously spent £16 million in Harrods […]

17th Oct 2018News

Jonathan Kinnear QC Leads for the Crown in Important Court of Appeal Decision

The Court of Appeal today dismissed the applications for leave to appeal made by James Ibori and others, following grave allegations of police corruption and deliberate non-disclosure.  This was the culmination of a two and a half year review of the safety of the convictions in which Jonathan Kinnear QC led for the Crown in […]