Our Criminal Department have defended numerous high profile actions brought by the CPS, the SFO, Serious Crime Directorate and HM Revenue and Customs. We have extensive experience of cases involving major fraud, money laundering and drug trafficking.

We are specialist in the detailed analysis of complex cases.

Chambers and Partners rank Hughmans as one of London's leading criminal practices.

Our civil practice is specialised in:

• Matrimonial, both finance and children
• Public Inquiries into compulsory purchase
• Compensation claims
• Property, both contentious and non-contentious
• Commercial
• Professional negligence claims especially against other firms of solicitors
• Private client work
• Civil proceedings arising out of criminal matters such as restraint, confiscation and forfeiture.
• Civil fraud claims including emergency remedies such as freezing injunctions
• Claims by the Assets Recovery Agency under Part 5 and Part 6 of the Proceeds of Crime Act

The Civil team are regularly engaged at the new frontiers in law and have been frequently involved in important groundbreaking cases.