August 7, 2020
Defendant accused of stalikng and harrassing someone who claimed to be only an an acquaintance acquitted after Moss & Co show that there had been a long term relationship all along.
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Category Archives: Crime
Murder acquittal
November 28, 2019
Moss & Co, criminal law solicitors, acted for CG at the Old Bailey who has just been acquitted of Murder. The allegation was that the defendant has been involved in the robbery of a BMW motor car as a result of which the owner had been stabbed to death. Our client’s case was that he had […]
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Prevention of Social Housing Fraud case was in the civil court
November 28, 2019
Unlawful Subletting Profit Order for £100,974.94 The news that a defendant was ordered to pay Westminster City Council £100,974.94 has attracted attention from the BBC and national newspapers. However, almost all the reporting described the penalty as “a fine”. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened. The order was for repayment of unlawfully obtained profits […]
Read MoreSuccess in two serious fraud cases for Gil Spurling
November 19, 2019
2019 St Albans Crown Court – International Fraud Gilbert Spurling acted for a defendant in the Crown Court who was accused of being involved in a multi-million-pound fraud. The fraud involved a fake investment scam covering several jurisdictions, including China and South America. The Crowns case was that the defendant was a party to the […]
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Released Under Investigation?
November 14, 2019
Released Under Investigation? If you have had an interview with the police and have been released under investigation, we will help and advise you. Police figures show that over 193,000 people have been released under investigation (RUI). That’s a lot of worried people roughly equivalent to a town the size of Reading or Slough. They […]
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Indecent Images
April 3, 2019
Have you been sent unsolicited indecent images ? It is a not uncommon event. Your mobile phone or tablet is open to the world. You are on Instagram, Facebook, Snap Chat and Twitter. You have many friends. Unknown to you, you have many potential contacts who are “friends of friends”. You are a member of […]
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Landlord not guilty of HMO offences after
December 12, 2018
Landlord not guilty of any offence in Houses in Multiple Occupation prosecution Our landlord client was being prosecuted by summons for various offences under the Houses in Multiple Occupation Regulations. They had let a two-bedroom flat to a couple who had in turn, without the landlord’s knowledge, sublet to up to 12 people. The matter was […]
Read MoreCriminal legal Aid is broken and it needs more than a review to fix it.
December 11, 2018
The Criminal Legal Aid basic fee for dealing with this high value fraud is £103.18 This is no joke. Last week we were asked to accept a transfer of legal aid in a fraud case valued in the region of one million pounds. The client could no longer get on with his solicitor and wanted […]
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