Solicitors alarmed by associate prosecutor proposals
Thursday, 18 March 2010 Proposals that could enable ‘associate prosecuto...1 Comments
Judge Gledhill's regret over solicitor-advocate 'distress'
Thursday, 18 March 2010 The judge who sparked an extraordinary public row ...Litigation solicitors targeted by money launderers
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Laurence Lee, former solicitor for Jon Venables
Who? Laurence Lee, 56, principal at north-west firm Laurence Lee & Co. Why is he in the news? Has appeared widely in the press commenting on the return of Jon Venables to prison. Lee defended Venables in his 1993 trial for the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Bootle, Merseyside. Venables, who was 10 at the time, was found guilty of the murder along with another boy of the same age, Robert Thompson. Venables was released from prison on licence in 2...More news:
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