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Apex is one of Wales’ leading sets, providing specialist expertise in criminal, regulatory, employment and disciplinary law.
The set: Apex was set up in 2007 to reimagine what a provincial chambers could be, with an emphasis on specialisation. It brings together established advocates from Wales and England with a shared commitment to employing the highest legal expertise, the finest advocacy and the greatest determination in client service. Chambers provides advice and assistance across the UK and throughout the entire criminal process – it regularly advises on conduct of cases prior to charge and at appellate level. Eight members of chambers sit as recorders.
Types of work undertaken: Members prosecute and defend in all types of serious crime, including serious fraud. Chambers regularly undertakes criminal and disciplinary work for police officers – eight members of Chambers are involved in the defence of serving and retired officers accused of fabricating a case against the ‘Cardiff Three’, following the murder of Lynette White in 1988. Members also act for doctors and sportsmen in tribunals and some barristers have developed an associated specialisation in employment law.
Members regularly prosecute on behalf of local authorities across the UK and chambers has recently been successful in a tender for South Wales local authority work. It acts for the all-Wales Illegal Money Lending Unit. Chambers places particular pride in advising non-traditional prosecutors as to the potential of the Proceeds of Crime Act and it is in a position to link prosecutors with financial investigators able to assist in POCA investigations.
Several members of chambers act for the Environment Agency and have recently conducted successful prosecutions of one of the largest paper recyclers in the UK (St Regis Paper) and of companies involved in the illegal tipping of many thousands of tonnes of spoil from the construction of the trans-Wales gas pipeline (Operation Ascot).
Members of chambers are licensed to conduct work on a direct public access basis; please contact the clerks for details.
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