Success for Wainwright Cummins LLP as Legal 500 2011 is launched.
The Social Housing team at Wainwright Cummins LLP have been recognised for the first time as a leading practice team for our social housing tenant work in the recently launched 2011 edition of the 'Legal 500', an independent legal directory and who recommend firms and individuals purely on merit.
The Legal 500 Series, now in its 25th year, is widely acknowledged as the world's largest legal referral guide.
This is what they say:
'Wainwright & Cummins advise on all aspects of social housing law. The team represented the applicant in the successful appeal case of Mondeh v Southwark LBC, concerning questions of intentional homelessness. 'Very knowledgeable and committed' department head Emma Prescott joined from Fisher Meredith LLP'.
The link below takes you to our firms microsite on the Legal 500 website:
http://www.legal500.com/firms/3850/offices/5427
The firm would like to thank all clients and fellow professionals who recommended us.
We are delighted to confirm that we have been awarded LSC contracts for 2012 in Housing and Family.
Para legal from the housing department Cherelle Coleman visits Haiti
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.