Criminal Law | VHCC | Extradition

Wainwright & Cummins have been defending clients facing criminal charges for over 25 years.

We aim to defend the interests of our clients charged with any criminal offence and to protect their inherent civil liberties and human rights. We also have a reputation for looking after vulnerable clients including young people, clients with mental health difficulties and clients facing charges which could damage their professional and personal reputations.

We have considerable experience across a broad range of criminal litigation from minor offences to major offences.

Types of Work/Cases we undertake:

• Allegations of serious fraud including money laundering; car "ringing"; and online conspiracies to pirate copyrighted material.
• Allegations of violence including murder, manslaughter, and kidnapping.
• Allegations of possession of offensive weapons including the use and/or possession of firearms including conspiracy to supply firearms and armed robbery.
• Allegations of dishonesty such as benefit fraud, conspiracy to steal or defraud, allegations of theft from an employer or public body, and minor acts of dishonesty such as shop lifting.
• Drugs related crime- from large scale cross-border importation and supply cases to possession of small quantities of illicit drugs.
• Street crime- including robbery and allegations of anti-social behaviour
• Public Order Offences
• Road Traffic Cases including allegations of causing death by dangerous driving.
• Allegations of sexual abuse including serious sexual offences such as rape, sexual assault, and allegations of possession of s.48 images.
  

Whatever the allegation we assure you that we will do our utmost to represent you to the best of our ability.

Some of our recent leading cases are as follows:

R v A & Others (2011): The firm represented a solicitor charged with three separate counts of fraud and tried in Leeds Crown Court. This was a complex case involving five parties and three properties, one of which was for the sale of a commercial development worth £7.5 million.

R v R (2011): The firm represented a client being tried at the Old Bailey for five counts of tax fraud against HMRC valued at over £6.5 million.

R v A (2011): A large scale case of fraud tried in the famous Court 1 of the Old Bailey. The case involved ten parties charged with conspiracy to steal £240,000 worth of monies from customers of a well known high street bank. The firm was successful in securing an acquittal for the client we represented, who had been charged with both grand conspiracy to steal and money laundering.

R v M (2011): A murder case tried at the Old Bailey which received wide-spread national media coverage, particularly from the BBC. The client in this case was charged with the murder of his friend, following a brawl which broke out outside a pub in Enfield.

R v F (2010): A complex fraud case tried in Manchester Crown Court. The case involved a company director charged with committing serious fraud as a result of systematically forging invoices. The sum in this case exceeded £1 million.

R v R (2011): A case of benefit fraud tried in Blackfriars Crown Court where the client had been charged with claiming benefits worth between £40,000 and £50,000. The firm successfully obtained a suspended sentence following a guilty verdict at trial.

R v W (2011): The firm represented a client being tried for assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) at the Old Bailey. In this case, the firm successfully obtained a not guilty verdict.

R v C (2011): A theft case where the client was accused of stealing scrap metal. The firm successfully obtained a not guilty verdict.

R v B (2011): The client in this case was charged with theft of an industrial plant. The firm was able to successfully obtain a suspended sentence following a guilty verdict at trial.