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Shoosmiths LLP Offices

Shoosmiths LLP
103 COLMORE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B3 3AG
England
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Kirsty Hughes

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Work Department

Regulatory

Position

Kirsty is a Senior Associate in the Regulation, Business Crime and Compliance team. She advises companies, directors and individuals on regulatory compliance across a range of areas including health and safety, food safety, weights and measures, underage sales, trading standards, product safety and fire safety. She has experience of large scale inquiries and inquests.

Kirsty is also an experienced licensing lawyer and provides expert advice on alcohol, late night refreshment, entertainment and gaming licensing.

Taking a break from the law, Kirsty gained practical compliance experience as the Technical Manager for a producer of cooked and smoked poultry where she was responsible for all compliance matters for the company including HACCP, audits, health and safety, food labelling and fire safety. Kirsty then worked as a Compliance Officer in a school, as well as a Clerk to the Governing Body, extending her knowledge base to the education sector.

Kirsty has also been a School Governor, sat on the Scrutiny Board for Education at Solihull MBC and clerked a charity which supported local good causes.

Career

Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Kirsty trained at Eversheds in 1992 before moving to niche licensing firm Poppleston Allen in 1998 and to Hammond Suddard Edge in 2001 before setting up her own practice in 2002 to attend licensing applications, interviews under caution and to conduct advocacy in regulatory criminal proceedings. Kirsty has appeared in most Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales.

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing

Shoosmiths LLP has a strong reputation in the retail and leisure sectors and acts for a number of major UK and regional pub companies, licensed retailers, taxi operators and fast-food operators. Working in the wider business crime department, Philip Ryan, based in Reading, and Birmingham-based lawyer Kirsty Hughes advise on all new licensing applications as well as handling criminal proceedings for breaches of licensing conditions, weights and measures, food safety legislation, and health and safety regulation.

West Midlands > Employment > Health and safety

The ‘first-rate’ team at Shoosmiths LLP  is ‘great and active’ and is ‘client and solution focused’. It is headed by the ‘very experienced’ Roy Tozer who continues to lead the firm’s team that is involved in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, while also working for some other key and significant clients. Hayley Saunders  is ‘excellent’ and she regularly conducts her own advocacy – her work spans both contentious and non-contentious matters across a wide range of industries. Saunders often advises on investigations and prosecutions for manslaughter in addition to health and safety offences. New addition to the team at senior associate level, Kirsty Hughes, is also well-regarded.

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