ROBERT WESTON

Rob Weston is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience, focussing on fraud, criminal, and employment disputes.

He is a member of the Fraud Lawyers Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association.

Fraud

Rob’s fraud work involves:

• Defending clients and businesses in complex white and grey collar serious fraud cases. This work includes advising and guiding clients through pre-charge investigations and court proceedings.

• Defending matters conducted by several agencies including the FCA, NCA, HMRC, Trading Standards, Local Authority, and the CPS.

• Offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act, including money laundering.

• Confiscation and Asset Forfeiture (pre and post prosecution).

• Very High Cost Cases (VHCC)

• Cases often involving multiple defendants and voluminous evidence and disclosure.

Rob has forged excellent working relationships with specialist fraud barristers.

Serious Crime

Rob’s serious crime work is varied:

• Defending clients in serious crime cases including murder, sexual, organised crime and drug offences.

• Cases involving multiple defendants and large quantities of prosecution evidence.

• Vast experience dealing with cases involving mobile phone data, EncroChat, cell site analysis, and forensic evidence.

• Serious road traffic offences resulting in fatality or serious injury.

• Guiding clients through the pre charge investigation process, and if required, court proceedings.

Rob has excellent working relationships with barristers who are specialist advocates hand picked for a particular case.

Employment

Rob’s employment work includes:

• Acting for claimants and defended businesses in Employment Tribunal proceedings involving unfair dismissal, unpaid wages, discrimination and whistleblowing. Rob understands that litigation can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. To that end, he strives to resolve cases in a pragmatic way. That is not always accomplishable, and if not, he will guide and prepare his clients for the Tribunal hearings.

• Vast experience drafting settlement agreements for businesses and advising individuals on the terms and implications of signing settlement agreements.

• Drafting contracts and employment policies.

• Advising businesses on redundancies and restructuring.

Notable Cases

Fraud/Money Laundering

FCA v TD (and others) – A £20 million VHCC alleging fraud by abuse of position of trust and false accounting at Southwark CC

CPS v CN (and others) – A multiple defendant money laundering at Maidstone CC

CPS v ASR – A fraud (abuse of position) by an employee at Maidstone CC

Serious Crime

CPS v LR (and another) – Represented a client accused of assisting an offender charged with murder. After a 4 week trial, our client was acquitted by jury at Maidstone CC.

CPS v ML (and others) – Represented a client jointly charged with 4 others of conspiracy to rob. The case involved voluminous phone evidence. Our client was acquitted by the jury after a 4 week trial at Maidstone CC

CPS v AS (and others) – A multi handed drugs case prosecuted primarily on material from EncroChat phones. The CPS were persuaded to accept our client’s plea to Counts 7 and 8 only which meant he did not face the far more serious conspiracy counts. Confiscation (POCA) proceedings have been commenced.

CPS v IT (and others) – The prosecution of our client was discontinued before trial. He, and several others, were accused of being an OCG stealing high end cars to order. Approximately 80,000 pages of evidence was served by the CPS.

CPS v MA – A client was accused of driving his lorry dangerously, resulting in a head on collision with another vehicle, causing its occupants serious injuries.

Employment

BT v BI – Instructed by BT to file a claim against BI for unfair dismissal, unlawful deductions, and discrimination (South London Employment Tribunals)

TA v CRL – Instructed by TA in the South London Employment Tribunals in a claim for whistleblowing, discrimination, and unfair dismissal.

AC v HL and AH – Instructed by HL and AH to defend discrimination claims made against both parties in the South London Employment Tribunals