Criminal & Regulatory Specialists
At Hollingsworth Edwards we pride ourselves in providing a professional, dynamic yet approachable service – available to you whenever you need us. It is this personalised approach that ensures our clients achieve the best outcomes. A testament to this being that many of our clients retain life-long relationships with us.
Our highly-skilled, friendly and experienced team are ready to advise you on a range of legal services concerning family issues, criminal and employment cases, as well as all business legal requirements.
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Location
Based in Shepherds Bush, West London, Operating Countrywide
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Expertise
Criminal Law and Professional Discipline Specialists
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Private and Public
Highest Standards Helping Privately and Publicly Funded Clients
24/7 Emergency Contact Service
As part of our unfaltering commitment, we provide a 24/7 emergency contact service if you are detained at the police station. Call 07757 777116.
Our Legal Services
Funding
We understand how essential it is that any legal action you take is cost effective, so we offer a fixed fee cost and realistic advice as to your prospects of success before you part with any money.
Funding
Meet Our Specialist Solicitors
James Palfrey, Barrister & Director
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James is an established and able advocate with a conspicuous ability to achieve not guilty verdict in difficult cases. With many years of experience and practice James now specializes is in defending serious violent and sexual offences, appearing on behalf of defendants charged with matters such as murder, kidnap, and rape.
As well as distinguishing himself as a trial advocate, James is a capable appellate advocate, having successfully appeared in Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal for appeals against both conviction and sentence.
Nicola Palfrey, Solicitor & Director
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Nicola is a Senior Solicitor and Managing Director with a wealth of experience as a solicitor and advocate representing clients to High Court level in both civil and criminal matters. Nicola’s main practice is in criminal law. Her intellectual versatility, combined with her wide-ranging insight as to how the law can be effectively applied in novel ways has been invaluable to those she represents including the successful overturning of a conviction in the High Court, establishing one of the leading authorities in defining the law on assaults on police officers and the successful contesting of a High Court cross-jurisdictional civil matter.
James Chaplin, Solicitor & Director
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James qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and specialises in civil litigation, employment, crime and extradition. James has higher rights of audience in criminal courts which allows him to represent clients in the Crown Court and all Criminal Appeal Courts. He has a great deal of experience with dealing with all issues regarding employment. This is from drafting and advising on contracts and other documents, through to claims in the Employment Tribunal. James advises on numerous areas of civil litigation which includes debt recovery, injunctions and actions against the police and other public bodies. James is able to attend to act for clients for most matters that reach the County Court. In terms of his criminal practice, he is known in particular as very experienced police station representative. He has conducted litigation and has acted at police station or courts on the full spectrum of criminal offences. This includes murder; terrorism; serious sexual offences and large-scale fraud. James is also an expert on advising those subject to criminal proceedings for motoring offences.
James Palfrey, Barrister & Director
Read MoreJames is an established and able advocate with a conspicuous ability to achieve not guilty verdict in difficult cases. With many years of experience and practice James now specializes is in defending serious violent and sexual offences, appearing on behalf of defendants charged with matters such as murder, kidnap, and rape.
As well as distinguishing himself as a trial advocate, James is a capable appellate advocate, having successfully appeared in Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal for appeals against both conviction and sentence.
Nicola Palfrey, Solicitor & Director
Read MoreNicola is a Senior Solicitor and Managing Director with a wealth of experience as a solicitor and advocate representing clients to High Court level in both civil and criminal matters. Nicola’s main practice is in criminal law. Her intellectual versatility, combined with her wide-ranging insight as to how the law can be effectively applied in novel ways has been invaluable to those she represents including the successful overturning of a conviction in the High Court, establishing one of the leading authorities in defining the law on assaults on police officers and the successful contesting of a High Court cross-jurisdictional civil matter.
James Chaplin, Solicitor & Director
Read MoreJames qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and specialises in civil litigation, employment, crime and extradition. James has higher rights of audience in criminal courts which allows him to represent clients in the Crown Court and all Criminal Appeal Courts. He has a great deal of experience with dealing with all issues regarding employment. This is from drafting and advising on contracts and other documents, through to claims in the Employment Tribunal. James advises on numerous areas of civil litigation which includes debt recovery, injunctions and actions against the police and other public bodies. James is able to attend to act for clients for most matters that reach the County Court. In terms of his criminal practice, he is known in particular as very experienced police station representative. He has conducted litigation and has acted at police station or courts on the full spectrum of criminal offences. This includes murder; terrorism; serious sexual offences and large-scale fraud. James is also an expert on advising those subject to criminal proceedings for motoring offences.
