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Stephensons Solicitors LLP crime team handles ‘top quality work’, which regularly entails serious fraud, including VHCC cases, offences of violence, major drugs cases and POCA. The Wigan-based team is led by Sean Joyce, who has extensive experience in regulatory enforcement matters, and Correna Platt, who is well versed in forensic matters and medical defence arguments in the context of murder and sexual offences. Colin Rawson handles a range of serious crime cases, including drug conspiracies related to EncroChat phones and county lines investigations and Duncan Phillips covers murder, firearms, trafficking and rape cases and has extensive experience representing clients before the Magistrates and Crown Courts. Martin Pizzey and John Greenwood are also noted. Mike Pemberton left the firm in October 2024.
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‘Correna Platt is one of the top criminal appeal lawyers in the country.’
‘Stephensons has long been a firm where client care and dedication to the client's case is foremost and central to the ethos of the case. Their attention to detail is excellent and the client care and detail of instructions prior to counsel becoming involved is exceptional. Their diversity policy is not only on paper nor simply an aspiration, they have recently fully implemented it in the staff they employ and the opportunities given to the staff.’
Work highlights
Advised in a large multi-handed conspiracy to abstract electricity to facilitate the production and supply of cannabis.