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With offices nationwide, Cartwright King delivers high quality legal services to both publicly funded and private clients. Recognised in The Legal 500 and Chambers Guide, we are nationally regarded as experts in our specialist fields and as a leading law firm. At Cartwright King, our mission is to make legal advice and representation accessible to everyone. We combine empathy with strategic insight, offering ethical, client focused support that empowers individuals and families through clear guidance, planning, and preparation.

Olliers Solicitors is firmly established as one of the UK's leading criminal defence specialists. Our senior lawyers are all leaders in their field. Olliers is ranked as a top tier law firm by both the Legal 500 2026 and Chambers Guide 2026. We are the Manchester Legal Awards 2025 Crime Firm of the Year and have won Crime Team of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards on eight occasions since 2011. We are a Times Best Law Firm 2025. We have a formidable reputation for our pro-active approach to the investigative stage of a criminal case focusing on crisis management, discretion and nipping an investigation in the bud. We are known for our creative and dynamic attitude to problem solving offering a tailored approach to every case. Matthew Claughton – Managing Director : “at Olliers the interests of the client are paramount … an ethos shared by every single member of the firm”. Olliers specialise in defending large scale and complex serious criminal cases. Nationally few firms can match our experience and expertise. Director Matthew Claughton has in excess of thirty years experience of defending serious criminal cases and is regularly singled out for mention by the Chambers Guide and Legal 500. Matthew is ranked as a top tier criminal practitioner by the 2026 edition of the Legal 500 and was the Northern Powerhouse Criminal Lawyer of the Year 2023. He was also the Manchester Legal Awards Partner of the Year 2021 as well as a previous winner of the Modern Law Awards Lawyer of the Year. Team members specialise in specific niche areas law meaning that we can provide specialist representation across the whole spectrum of criminal defence and regulatory law.

Nyman Gibson Miralis is an international award winning criminal defence law firm based in Sydney, Australia. Established for over 55 years we are market leaders in all aspects of general, complex and international criminal law and are widely recognised for our involvement in some of Australia’s most significant criminal cases. In the field of domestic and local criminal law our reputation has been built on the principles of delivering the highest quality legal service in every type of criminal case for over half a century, including leading cases in the High Court of Australia and the Court of Criminal Appeal. We are experts in assisting companies and individuals the subject of white collar and corporate crime investigations and prosecutions. We specialise in matters involving money laundering, complex fraud, domestic and foreign bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, taxation offences, and other dishonesty offences, which are prosecuted by the ATO, ASIC, CDPP, AUSTRAC, ICAC, AFP and State Police. Our international criminal law practice focuses on transnational corporate and financial crime, bribery and corruption, international money laundering, cybercrime, international asset freezing and forfeiture, extradition and mutual assistance law. We strategically advise and appear in matters where transnational cross border investigations and prosecutions are being conducted in parallel jurisdictions, involving some of the largest law enforcement agencies and financial regulators world-wide. We have specialist capabilities in Crime Commissions, Royal Commissions and ICAC inquiries as well as a niche practice in civil proceedings against the Police for malicious prosecution. We also act in complex crimes such as murders, sexual assaults, drug importations and frauds and are acknowledged experts in general crime, drink driving and traffic law (including licence appeals).