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). 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
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
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
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 […]
10th Oct 2018News
Tom Day’s client, a consultant surgeon, had been made subject to an interim order of conditions after a number of concerns had been raised primarily regarding post-operative management of infection. At a full day hearing in the High Court before HHJ Halliwell (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) Tom sought to persuade the Court […]
