Government has laid a regulatory minefield, often backed by criminal sanctions for those in business and the professions.

Entrepreneurs and directors and their professional advisers face ranks of investigators and prosecutors armed with wide ranging powers of investigation, search and even arrest.

Such bodies include HM Revenue & Customs, the Serious Fraud Office, the Health & Safety Executive, the Department of Business and the Insolvency Service, the Financial Services Authority, as well as Professional and Sporting regulators...the list is long and worrying

The marriage of the legendary Saunders criminal law practice with our litigation department has created the ultimate Regulatory Department. Courtroom, interview and investigative techniques, acquired over decades in the exacting world of criminal trials, are combined with knowledge and experience across all civil disciplines... a cross- disciplinary tour de force.

We have the knowledge to deal with the complex legal questions found in tax evasion, money laundering, and financial services litigation. We apply our cutting edge knowledge of forensic science and technology in Health & Safety, Corporate Manslaughter, and other technical prosecutions. And we succeed; we undertook the only successful defence of an insider dealing prosecution, brought by the FSA.

We regularly act for solicitors and other professionals in trouble with their professional regulators, and James Saunders and Gillian Benning are active member of the Solicitors Assistance Scheme. We represent individuals in investigations by the Department of Business and the Insolvency service. We represent clients at other interviews required by official bodies, often under powers of compulsion, who recognise us as implacable opponents.