Legal 500 2017: ‘A “Premier Firm” in White Collar Crime’

11.10.17

Shearman Bowen are once again highly ranked in the ‘White-collar Crime’ category in the Legal 500 2017 published today: ‘Premier firm’ Shearman Bowen & Co is ‘well-regarded in the area of fraud and white-collar crime’ and is ‘known for its thorough and methodical approach to all cases’.  Highlights included successfully defending the head of a Hong Kong-based […]

Legal 500 2017: ‘A Heavyweight Player in Crime’

11.10.17

Shearman Bowen are once again highly ranked in the ‘Crime’ category in the Legal 500 2017 published today. Our expertise in Crime is recognised as follows: Shearman Bowen & Co is ‘a heavyweight player in the crime area’ and ‘adopts a thorough and methodical approach to all cases’. The firm has increasingly focused on investigations and […]

HMRC Prosecutions Double Since 2012

29.09.17

HM Revenue & Customs today announced that the number of evasion cases lined up for prosecution nearly doubled to 1,135 in the three years to 2015-16. The release of the figures, in response to a Freedom of Information request, comes as the tax authority prepares to use new data to investigate individuals who have hidden […]

Acquittal in HMRC Prosecution

28.07.17

Our client Julian Whiteway-Wilkinson was acquitted today of charges of cheating the public revenue by a jury at Wood Green Crown Court. Our client, the founder and former owner of London Fields Brewery in Hackney, had been prosecuted by HMRC in connection with £730,000 of unpaid tax, but the jury returned not guilty verdicts after […]

Fraud Prosecutions Fall – Reported Fraud Quadruples

24.07.17

The number of white collar prosecutions has fallen to a six-year low even though the amount of economic crime in the UK has risen over the same period, a development that could bolster arguments that a lack of resources is hampering the fight against crime. Official statistics show there were 8,304 prosecutions for financial crime […]

Legal 500 2016: Top Ranked for Crime

16.09.16

“Criminal defence boutique Shearman Bowen & Co provides a ‘level of engagement that is vanishingly rare among criminal firms’”…

Legal 500 2016: Top Ranked for White- Collar Crime

16.09.16

With some ‘major successes in highly publicised cases’, Shearman Bowen & Co is ‘now one of the eminent players in the white-collar crime field’…

Koestler Exhibition 2016

01.09.16

We are all Human is the UK’s annual national showcase of arts by prisoners, ex-offenders on community sentences, secure psychiatric patients and immigration detainees. It is the ninth exhibition in an ongoing partnership between the Koestler Trust and Southbank Centre. “Prison is a concrete jungle so I wanted to get as much nature into the exhibition […]