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Piers Desser has contributed an article to the latest issue of Risk & Compliance Magazine entitled Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime: From Suspicion to Prosecution. The article considers the progression from the identification and...
Senior Associate in our Private Crime Department, Ghislaine Sandoval, has secured the withdrawal of charges against a client prosecuted for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and using...
By Dominic Morel, Solicitor For those of us who practise in the Crown Court, the last twelve months have brought the most significant recalibration of sentencing law in a generation. The...
Carson Kaye is pleased to announce that John Kaye and Piers Desser have contributed chapters to the 2026 edition of the Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guide: Financial Crime (England & Wales). The guide is...
Carson Kaye are pleased to announce another successful outcome for one of our clients. On 15 June 2026, Kat Demby attended Croydon Magistrates’ Court to represent an individual charged with...
Kat Demby and Piers Desser acted for Dylan Earl in the first prosecution brought under the National Security Act 2023, with proceedings concluding before Mrs Justice Cheema Grubb at the...
At Carson Kaye, we’re immensely proud to announce our recognition in the Legal 500 UK 2026 guide, with rankings for both General Crime (London) and, for the first time, Fraud:...
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sophie Clarke, as the new Head of Private Client Crime, effective immediately. Sophie brings with her a wealth of experience in criminal...
Ben Darabi represented MG and MG, two sisters charged as part of a wider conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. The underlying fraud involved a sophisticated spoofing operation, where...
Our defence team – Piers Desser and Daisy Wood, working with Laura Collier of 25 Bedford Row – has secured a complete acquittal at the Old Bailey for our client...
Change is on the horizon for the criminal justice system in England and Wales. In February 2025, the Law Commission launched a consultation proposing wide-ranging reforms to how criminal appeals...
When a period of offending begins when a client is a youth and continues into adulthood, sentencing becomes a complicated exercise. Courts need to balance the principles of youth sentencing...
Ben Darabi represented ASF, a defendant charged with a conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger lives. ASF was alleged to be a member of the Harrow Road Boys...
We are pleased to report a successful outcome in a recent case where Miss Taylor’s client, who had initially been charged by the police, ultimately received a caution following her...
Sophie Clarke secures unanimous not guilty verdicts following a four-week trial at the Central Criminal Court on counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to burgle. It was alleged...
PRESS RELEASE on behalf of PAUL GALLAGHER Our client, Paul Gallagher, has been charged with a number of offences all relating to a single complainant. Mr Gallagher has consistently engaged...
Following last week’s news that Emma Watson received a driving ban, Sophie Clarke reflects on this as a high-profile reminder of the consequences of becoming a ‘totter’, the law surrounding...
Ben Darabi and Stefan Sutherland represented a client who was alleged to have been involved, with 6 others, in a conspiracy to supply cannabis through legitimate business enterprises in the...
The publication of Part 1 of The Independent Review of the Criminal Courts by Sir Brian Leveson has reheated an important debate. As anticipated, it recommends restructuring the Criminal Justice...
The UK’s corporate crime landscape is about to undergo a significant shift. From 1 September 2025, a new criminal offence will come into force under the Economic Crime and Corporate...
Client Acquitted in FCA Insider Dealing and Money Laundering Trial – Carson Kaye Secures Victory at Southwark Crown Court We are pleased to report a significant result for Carson Kaye...
Recent computer hackings of big retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods – and the ensuing commercial fall-out – have thrown the normally covert world of cybercrime under the...
This case involved a complex 10-handed criminal conspiracy in which several directors of a film production company were charged with defrauding the government of over £13 million in value-added tax...
An In-Depth Commentary The justice system continually evolves in response to the changing nature of crime and societal expectations. Recently, new sentencing guidelines have been introduced for offences such as...
When the (as he was then) Attorney General Geoffrey Cox MP published the Government’s Review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Disclosure in the Criminal Justice System in 2018, he...
The concept of pre-recorded oral testimony in criminal courts is not new. Although video-recorded evidence played at trial seems like a recent development, it was conceived decades ago and was...
An Analysis of Sentencing Practices and Policies Introduction The Independent Sentencing Review is a comprehensive evaluation of the sentencing practices and policies employed within the judicial system. This note, prepared...
Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA), introduced in February 2014 under the provisions of Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, are intended to avoid lengthy and expensive prosecutions of...
The sense of frustration when justice fails to be served can be profoundly distressing. Increasingly over-stretched police forces are having to concede and abandon investigations in which there are insufficient...
Following a four-month trial at the Central Criminal Court, Carson Kaye’s two clients CB and JB were unanimously acquitted by the jury on all counts in relation to their alleged...
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