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Pearson Fielding [www.pearson-fielding.co.uk] The Pearson Fielding Partnership, situated at 22 Stanley Street in the heart of Liverpool City Centre, is a specialist niche criminal practice offering a personal service with a “hands on” approach. The partners, Andrew Pearson and Kieran Fielding, first met over 20 years ago when they were undertaking their articles at a major Liverpool commercial law firm. Since then, their careers and practices have followed similar but separate paths. In May 2000, the two practices merged with a view to strengthening their ability to offer a quality criminal defence service from police station through to Magistrate’s Court, Crown Court and beyond. The practice is fully focused on the impact that the European Convention of Human Rights is likely to have on our domestic law. All previous common law precedent accordingly falls to be reviewed as a result of these changes and we are keen to advise in this rapidly developing area. The practice’s stated policy is to continue to provide accessible and efficient criminal representation both to the Merseyside region and beyond. The practice has been involved in a number of very high profile defence cases over the years and has refined its knowledge and expertise in this area. The practice has always considered that recruiting an experienced defence “team” is often crucial to the outcome of a case and to this end the practice places considerable emphasis on retaining quality counsel and experts. The practice believes it is vital to identify the likely issues in the case as soon as possible, and thus “bring on board” the relevant experts in that area. To this end the practice has an approved list of contractors consisting of counsel, forensic accountants, document examiners and scientists to whom they regularly revert. The Partnership has a dedicated policy of travelling to “service” cases in which it has been instructed. It is their findings that, all the more regularly, cases have an international dimension and as such, through Andrew Pearson’s membership of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), they have a network of established contacts in most European countries. Andrew’s position as a member of the ECBA Money Laundering Committee puts him very much at the leading edge in this developing area of law. The impact of the EEC Second Money Laundering Directive which has recently been approved, makes frightening reading for all practioners in this field!! Allied to the international dimension of the practice, it prides itself on its ability to deal competently and professionally with extradition cases and other cases involving cross-border judicial co-operation. Such mutual assistance emerged as a result of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act, 1991 and has since been ratified by the European Convention of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. Again, this is an increasingly important area of advice which the practice specialises as crime becomes evermore international and sophisticated. On a practical front, the practice is conscious that most serious fraud cases are inevitably “paper heavy”. The practice has thus developed software to enable the inevitable bulky documentary evidence to be stored on disk. The software system employed enables counsel and other experts to rapidly access the material that they require and in a wholly novel step, this practice is experimenting the concept of hosting a securely protected website, storing this information and thus allowing retrieval via the Internet. Andrew, Kieran and the staff at the Pearson Fielding Partnership offer a friendly and quality service on a very much “one to one” basis, and they aim to build upon their established reputation as one of Liverpool’s leading criminal practices. Andrew or Kieran will be delighted to deal with any queries that you may have, and both will be on hand on the 8th of November to deal directly with any questions. For further details please view our site at [www.pearson-fielding.co.uk] |
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