Tom Little KC and Gareth Munday have successfully prosecuted members of Britain’s biggest benefit fraud gang.
Five members of an organised criminal gang, which falsely claimed more than £50 million in Universal Credit in the largest benefit fraud in England and Wales, have been jailed.
Bulgarian nationals Galina Nikolova, 39, Stoyan Stoyanov, 28, Tsvetka Todorova, 53, Gyunesh Ali, 34, and Patritsia Paneva, 27, have all been jailed today at Wood Green Crown Court after pleading guilty to fraud and money laundering related offences for their involvement in a multi-million-pound scam on the benefit system to eight years. They were sentenced to eight years, four years, three years, seven years and three months, and three years and two months imprisonment, respectively.
This week’s Dekagram is all about cancellations and delays – what happens when a package holiday is cancelled, what happens when a flight is delayed due to the behaviour of a passenger. Both sets of circumstances are giving rise to increasing numbers of claims, in…
Deka Chambers is delighted to announce that the King has appointed Eleanor Mawrey and Jennifer Oborne as Recorders on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Shabana Mahmood MP and the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable the Baroness…
Edward Lamb KC spoke to The Bar Council of England and Wales about how his pro bono week helped him in his application to take Silk: Edward Lamb KC’s practice includes the most important private children cases with complex cross jurisdictional issues, inflicted non-accidental catastrophic…
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