Stephensons Solicitors LLP

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.