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As part of a criminal investigation Restraint Orders (‘an Order’) may well be obtained by the investigating authority upon an application to the Crown Court, under section 41 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA’), in order to prevent the disposal or dissipation of any assets , which the authority may seek to forfeit […]

Upon appointment to administer the affairs of an insolvent company, one of the roles of the appointed Insolvency Practitioner is to gather in all available assets and discharge creditors out of the recovered funds according to the Insolvency Rules. In order to accomplish this task, all of the insolvent company’s financial and trading records will […]

KANGS Solicitors have recently successfully defended a client charged with an allegation of a historic sexual offences committed in 1991. The Charge Our client was charged in accordance with the law applicable in 1991 with one count of buggery contrary to section 12(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. The Allegation The allegation, made by […]

Kangs Solicitors has successfully defended our client, a thirty-year old self-made business man, who faced charges at Stafford Crown Court for alleged historic familial sexual offences. Helen Holder reports on this highly successful outcome. The Allegations The Relevant Law   Due to the fact that one of the Complainant sisters was not certain when the […]

In this recent post, we explained the New Sentencing Guidelines in relation to sentencing following illegal sales by organisations. Suki Randhawa now outlines the new framework insofar as it relates to sales by individuals, which took effect from 1 April 2023.

A defendant has recently been sentenced, following Trial at Salisbury Crown Court, to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for the offence of ‘Threats to Kill’ as the result of threats made to an ex-partner, barrister and Judge via social media platforms. The threats were made subsequent to proceedings at a Family Court.