DEFRA – Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. Central Government.
Responsible for policy and regulations on the environment, food and rural affairs.
Previous cases include: damage to the resting place of any animal species, ‘baiting’ wildlife with aggressive animals (e.g. dogs), dealing with endangered species, egg collecting, damage to sites of special scientific interest.
We also defend: obstructing/providing false information to officials investigating whether the regulations are being held, causing unnecessary suffering to any animal, not ensuring the welfare of animals under their care (also neglect), keeping an animal tethered without good reason, not providing a suitable diet/environment, selling/buying/winning animals below the minimum age (16), not disposing of waste products correctly...
Local Council (See below for the specific Trading Standards matters)
Previous cases include: failure to wear badges/ID, driving without insurance/failing to provide insurance documents when asked, using/obtaining fake ID, intent to set up a bank account under a false identity, plying for hire when not an official taxi driver, carrying on a business in contravention to licenses, insanitary premises in an eating establishment/supermarket.
We also defend: fly-tipping, abandoned cars, vandalising, too much noise, benefit fraud, parking penalties, Dangerous Dogs Act and dog fouling, overloading vehicles, providing imitation goods (e.g. fake Gucci clothes), money-lending without a license, blackmail, failing to ensure health and safety of employees, chopping down trees in a conservation area, providing cigarettes without health warnings, illegal raves...
Trading Standards
Aims to encourage honest enterprise and business and helps safeguard the economic, environmental, health and social well-being of consumers.
Previous cases include: prosecution for selling an un-roadworthy car, supplying unsafe electrical equipment, false advertising, obtaining/attempting to obtain money by deception, failure to provide particulars when asked, supplying rented accommodation with equipment that does not conform to safety standards, providing food past its use by date/obscuring the use by date.
We also defend: provision of alcohol ( & cigarettes, offensive weapons, fireworks, solvents etc) to those under 18, underage possession of cigarettes/alcohol, practicing unfair business practices, failure to provide notice of the customer’s right to cancel...
M23LAW has a background of successfully representing clients in these areas. For example, we have had many calls to represent farmers under investigation by Trading Standards. Our recent cases in Surrey and Sussex have included ‘Failure to dispose of carcasses without delay’ and ‘illegal burning.’
Caution
It is most important that anyone under suspicion contacts one of our advisers a.s.a.p. Interviews under caution (Police and Criminal Evidence Act – PACE) often take place in the suspect’s home location, council office, police station or similar premises.
Our strong advice is to have one of our lawyers present in order to safeguard the suspect’s interests. We often find that clients come to us for help when they have already been interviewed and “damage done.”
Remember that we defend all over England and Wales.
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