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Specialist criminal defence and road traffic firm Belmores excels in publicly funded and private work. Simon Nicholls and Dave Foulkes are dedicated criminal lawyers handling serious crime, police station representation and all prosecution matters for VOSA.

Chris Brown’s ‘meticulous, nuanced approach to advocacy’ typifies the practice at Fosters, whose recent caseload includes serious matters including misconduct in a public office, the region’s largest-ever trading standards prosecution, murders and sexual offences.

Gotelee Solicitors’ Hugh Rowland is ‘well respected locally, consistently giving of his best’, and is lauded for his ‘exceptional advice and first-class attitude’. He recently defended a company director accused of multiple mortgage fraud.

HC Solicitors has ‘a highly skilled team at all levels’. Simon Milburn and Andrew Cave lead the crime team, which added three lawyers in Huntingdon. The arrival of Richard Boucher from Cartwright King boosted Cave’s outstanding mental health team.

Associate Sarah Acres at Hegarty LLP, which has three duty solicitors, is considered a first-class practitioner in the Peterborough area.

With one of the largest teams in the region, Metcalfe, Copeman & Pettefar is ‘thorough and capable’. Alison Muir oversees criminal defence and prosecutions for a major government department and local authorities. Defence specialist Martin Newton also stands out.

Ian Mayers’s team at Mills & Reeve LLP handles white-collar and regulatory crime matters. Examples include trading standards investigations and advice to corporates accused of failing to identify fleet car drivers.

Malcolm Savory’s criminal defence team at Birketts LLP is ‘extremely thorough’. Employed barrister Laura Thomas handles many road traffic claims.

Headed by Neil Meachem, who is one of the region’s most experienced criminal solicitors, Fraser Dawbarns handles the full range of matters from petty crime to serious fraud and murder.

Kathryn Gilbertson leads a very strong business defence team at Greenwoods Solicitors LLP. Praised as ‘not taking a narrowly legalistic view’, the team includes Robert Starr, once of the Serious Fraud Office.

Hawkins Solicitors has a busy high street practice committed to publicly funded work for clients in Norwich and Peterborough.

At Hewitsons LLP, the outstanding Deborah Sharples handles complex regulatory crime matters in the areas of environmental and health and safety.

Leathes Prior’s Tim Cary has ‘an incomparable local reputation’, particularly in fraud cases. Recent matters include a major international corruption probe.

‘The busiest criminal lawyers in Cambridge’, Nick Barnes and Sandeep Kainth’s caseload at Thomson Webb & Corfield includes major fraud and murder cases.

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