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David Phillips & Partners Solicitors have announced Shahid Miah’s successful defence for appellant, Sanjay Dhar, in a High Court Money Laundering case.

Conrad Black, the media tycoon convicted of corporate fraud and obstructing justice, will find out today if he must return to jail in the US to serve some or all of the remaining four years of his prison term, the Independent reports. Black lost his media empire when outside investors accused him of running a [...]

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is launching a new taskforce of benefit fraud investigators, in a bid to cut down on the number of fraudulent claims from couples who falsely declare they are living apart. Under the new scheme, benefit fraud investigators will be interviewing every claimant in postcode areas that are thought [...]

In the “biggest case of identity theft” in City of London Police history, an Edgware man who used 128 identities to steal £650,000 has been jailed, the Edgware Times reports. The man reportedly targeted rural post offices to apply for driving licences with forged papers and used them to open bank accounts, claim housing benefits [...]

More than £310,000 in fraudulent benefit claims has been recovered by two Oxfordshire councils, BBC News reports. Benefit fraud investigators working for the South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils found that 87 people were making fraudulent claims. Of these, in the financial year 2010-11, 15 people were prosecuted, 57 were cautioned and [...]

Specialists in criminal defence, David Phillips & Partners Solicitors, are advising people to make sure that they are fully aware of the new guidelines for police issuing cautions for some criminal offences. The leading criminal defence solicitors explain that in the past, suspects with few or no criminal convictions against them, could be warned with [...]