The firm’s “extremely effective” Serious & General Crime team is delighted to maintain its top tier ranking. The department’s strength is further developed by Kate Goold’s return to the firm and recommended lawyer Rose Commander’s elevation to partner. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/three-hr-dep...

The firm’s Civil Department, now included in Tier 1 for ‘Civil Liberties & Human Rights, is made up of “a very strong public law and civil liberties team” with “exceptional dedication to their clients and first-class subject-matter expertise”. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/three-hr-dep...

Hickman & Rose is proud to be recognised again as one of the country’s leading law firms by the Legal 500. "at the top of the field in white collar crime, a stable of superb lawyers who have been in all the big cases, and really fight for their clients." www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/three-hr-dep...

@hickmanandrose.co.uk is delighted to announce the promotion of Bartholomew Dalton to Senior Associate. Deserved recognition of his hard work, expertise and commitment to clients.

Jenny Wiltshire, Kate Goold, Bartholomew Dalton, and Anna Jemmison from our market-leading serious and general crime team will be attending the LCCSA European Conference in Malaga this weekend Kate will be speaking at the conference delivering a seminar titled: Let’s talk about Sex: Full disclosure

Hickman & Rose is delighted to announce that Tom Bushnell will become a partner in the firm’s Business Crime and Regulatory Law department. Tom has established himself as a leading light in white collar criminal and financial regulatory law. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/tom-bushnell...

Peter Csemiczky and Rose Commander, partners in our market leading serious and general crime team, will be attending the ECBA Autumn Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. #ECBAAutumnConference #EuropeanCriminalBarAssociation #Belgrade

Senior associate Tom Bushnell has been quoted in a Financial Times feature examining the process by which a swathe of criminal prosecutions of financial professionals in the UK and the USA collapsed. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/tom-bushnell... #criminalprosecutions #FinancialTimes

We are looking for a confident and hard-working individual with exceptional IT skills and knowledge of the criminal justice system to join our Business Support team as a Legal Administrator. More info here: www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/careers/vaca...

Supreme Court allows the appeals of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, who had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud. Tim Owen KC & @tjamesmatthews.bsky.social acted for Carlo Palombo, instructed by @hickmanandrose.co.uk Read more: ow.ly/mw4L50WtOvc

United Nations Special Rapporteur granted permission to intervene in Palestine Action judicial review against terrorism proscription decision - Adam Straw KC and Rabah Kherbane act for UN Special Rapporteur, instructed by Daniel Machover and Laura Chapman of @hickmanandrose.co.uk

Hickman & Rose has appeared in the media in relation to its work for a client seeking a criminal investigation and regulatory action regarding charity funding of an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. #WestBank www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/attorney-gen...

Congratulations to associate Bartholomew Dalton on his appointment as a member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee for 4 years from 1 September 2025. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/bartholomew-...

The CPS has been criticised for its performance in rape prosecutions in a new report by HMCPSI. Peter Csemiczky asks whether this criticism is merited, and reveals some startling statistics about the acquittal rate for adult rape offences. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/what-does-th...

Civil litigation associate Toby Wilton has been quoted in the media pushing the Government to remove its recently-increased cap on miscarriage of justice compensation. #compensation #miscarriageofjustice www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/toby-wilton-...

Hickman & Rose's Bartholomew Dalton has contributed a commentary to Criminal Law Week in which he addresses the rules on solicitors’ ability to take electronic devices into police custody suites. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/bartholomew-... #policecustody #mobilephones #solicitors

On August 6th, Hickman & Rose's Ross Dixon will appear on the panel at an @americanbar.org online event discussing the international perspective on FCPA enforcement. Ross will discuss the proposed European task force & ask what it means for US companies doing business overseas tinyurl.com/4bsujky8

Are facilitation payments the same as #bribery?’ @hickmanandrose.co.uk barrister Tom Bushnell has written an article for Construction Management, the magazine of the The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), addressing the question. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/tom-bushnell... #facilitationpayments

Serious and General Crime associate Bartholomew Dalton has written a commentary article for Criminal Law Week on the issue of time limits to criminal prosecution in low-value shoplifting cases. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/time-limits-... #shoplifting #prosecutiontimelimits

After hearing 6 weeks of evidence, an inquest jury last month concluded that former soldier Sean Fitzgerald was killed lawfully. However, it also identified serious causative failures in the planning and implementation of the police operation. #inquest www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/serious-poli...

Sean Fitzgerald: Inquest jury identifies serious failures in firearms police operation. Adam Straw KC, Tom Stoate and Tayyiba Bajwa represented Liam Fitzgerald, Sean’s brother, instructed by Helen Stone of @hickmanandrose.co.uk. www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/sean-fi...

Hickman & Rose is delighted to announce the promotion of Ellie Cornish, Steffan Baker and Tom Bushnell to Senior Associate. Deserved recognition of their hard work, expertise and commitment to clients. Congratulations Ellie, Steffan and Tom.

Ross Dixon, partner in Hickman & Rose’s industry leading Business Crime and Regulatory teams, is attending the @ibanews.bsky.social's Annual Transnational Crime Conference in Santiago on 14-16 May. Ross will be co-chairing the ‘Supply chain and criminal offences’ panel #InternationalBarAssociation

On 25 April, Kate Goold, Anna Jemmison, Jaya Narang & Tanya Murray, members of our market leading Serious & General Crime team, celebrated Women In Criminal Law’s 7th Birthday. Thank you to our fantastic guests for making the event such a wonderful evening. #WomenInCriminalLaw #WICL #CrimeLawyers

Jenny Wiltshire, Peter Csemiczky, and Rose Davies Commander, partners in Hickman & Rose’s market leading Serious and General Crime team, are attending the European Criminal Bar Association Spring Conference in Sorrento on 25-26 April. #ECBASpringConference #ECBA #Sorrento

Hickman & Rose is delighted to announce that Rose Commander will join the firm's partnership from 1 April 2025. Rose has been an invaluable member of the firm's top-ranked Serious and General Crime team since she joined Hickman & Rose in 2018.

Hickman & Rose client Carlo Palombo’s 6 year long battle to overturn his criminal conviction for a EURIBOR related fraud offence has made it to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will determine whether Carlo’s behaviour was criminal. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/hickman-rose... #SupremeCourt #Appeal

🔎 Our Leslie Thomas KC, w/ Daniel Machover (@dmachover.bsky.social) & Adam Straw KC (of @doughtystreet.bsky.social), rounds up cases on the #FreedomOfInformation Act, #AssistedDying, #NorthernIreland legacy investigations & more. Read their 'Inquests and Inquiries: Update' 🔽 tinyurl.com/5n8zv49y

Toby Wilton of [email protected], the legal firm representing Malkinson in his civil claim, said the interim payment was “long-awaited good news in this case”, but that it was “not right that this statutory…scheme can only pay out a maximum of £1m to victims of serious miscarriages of justice”.

Serious and General Crime associate Bartholomew Dalton has written for Criminal Law Week on the High Court habeas corpus case of an individual unlawfully detained in HMP Pentonville long after he should have been set free. www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/here-we-go-a... #UnlawfulDetention #HMPPentonville

A key issue identified by my @hickmanandrose.co.uk colleague Peter is the need for guidance to universities on how they should properly run investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct by students.

Serious and General Crime partner Peter Csemiczky has written an article for @thetimes.com in which he criticises the way many UK universities handle allegations of sexual misconduct made against students. #TheTimes #Misconduct #University www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/peter-csemic...

Hickman & Rose's Jenny Wiltshire has been quoted in the Daily Telegraph commenting on the steep rise in the number of rape prosecutions dropped by the CPS. An increase to ten dropped prosecutions a week is likely to have been influenced by recent changes... www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/jenny-wiltsh...

Earlier this month the FCA fined Metro Bank (UK) £16m for anti-money laundering failings. This led to commentary that the regulator is focussing its attention on “challenger banks”. This analysis risks missing the bigger picture... - Tom Bushnell #MetroBank www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/metro-banks-...