PAUL ANGEL Paul Angel was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1993 and in Northern Ireland in 2007 and specialises in Employment Related Criminal matters. He regularly receives instructions in the following types of cases: Health and Safety Investigations and Prosecutions. Fraud and other financial offences. Allegations against professional persons by young and/or vulnerable people. This includes instructions in substantial and complex historic abuse cases. Inquests. Gross Negligence Manslaughter. Paul also regularly is instructed in serious and general criminal matters and Administrative Law/Human Rights matters Paul is presently instructed in a number of matters concerning allegations of gross negligence manslaughter in the course of employment. He regularly conducts cases on a national basis and as well as conducting cases in London and the South East is at the present time representing clients in both the North West and the Midlands. PATRICK ANDREWS Patrick Andrews started his working life in the Port of London Docks. He then worked as Telephone Engineer for many years and was a member of the Post Office Engineering Union. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1992 and later qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate, prior to which he practiced as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives. Patrick Andrews specialises in employment related criminal matters. He regularly receives instructions in the following types of cases: Health and Safety Investigations and prosecutions. Fraud, DTI and other financial offences including MTIC, Carousel and Diversion frauds. Also offences relating to disqualified company directors. Allegations against professional persons by young and/or vulnerable people. Inquests. Gross Negligence Manslaughter. Defending Assets Recovery Agency actions. Patrick Andrews was the Partner who supervised the team which conducted the defence of train drivers in the Watford Junction and Southall train crash trials. Patrick Andrews was also instructed to advise and provide representation during the Lockerbie Investigation.” He has recently appeared as joint Advocate on behalf of a client who appeared before the High Court in Rouen in Normandy regarding an allegation of gross negligence manslaughter and has represented local government officials and teachers in connection with Health and Safety investigations and at inquests. Patrick also regularly conducts cases on a national basis. Patrick Andrews is also admitted as a solicitor in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland and has also represented clients in the Supreme Court of Yugoslavia. GARY RUBIN Gary Rubin was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1997 and in Northern Ireland in 2007 and specialises in work related criminal matters and Health & Safety. Prior to becoming a Solicitor he worked in welfare rights and was employed as a Constituency Advice Officer for a Member of Parliament. Gary joined the firm in November 2004 and became an associate on the first of January 2006. He regularly receives instructions in the following cases: Health and Safety Investigations and prosecutions. Gross negligence manslaughter. Allegations against professional persons by young and/or vulnerable persons. Railway matters and Regulatory offences. General crime and inquests. Gary has represented clients in very high profile gross negligence cases and was instructed in the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail inquiries. He also has considerable experience in civil matters including judicial review. Gary is currently instructed by clients all over the country requiring specialist advice and representation. He has also provided health & safety training to both Trade Unions and companies. DAVID ELLIS Edward David Ellis is one of Andrews Angel's in house Solicitor-Advocates. David, as he likes to be called, was called to the Bar of England and Wales by The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1979. At the bar David practiced in many areas and was particularly involved in the area of Liquor and Taxi licensing and appeared in many cases for prospective licensees in the lower courts and in the high court on appeal. In 1990 David was admitted to the bar of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and practiced there and in the wider Caribbean as a civil and criminal advocate, specialising in Capital and Constitutional cases. He was one of the junior counsel in the leading Caribbean case of ex parte Branwell, a case concerning the sacking of a High Court judge. Whilst in the Caribbean David also studied for the New York bar to which he was admitted in 1995. In 1996 David returned to London and was admitted as a solicitor in 1997 and in 1998 a solicitor advocate with higher court rights in all courts. David now concentrates in the field of Crime and Regulatory law, Human Rights, Judicial Review and Licensing law as an Advocate in all courts. GILL RUTHERFORD Gill Rutherford is the firms Senior Managing Clerk with expertise in conducting Employment Related Criminal law matters. This includes: Allegations against professional Persons by young and/or vulnerable people Other Serious and General Crime Gill Rutherford has had a long career in the law originally in the field of personal injury before the choosing a career in criminal defence work. Gill is renowned for her expertise defending teachers, Carers, nurses and others falsely accused of offences of abuse. In the late 1990s Gill, supervised by Patrick Andrews, set up and instructed a team of 6 barristers successfully defending some twenty prosecutions resulting from the Northumbria Police investigation Operation Rose. Gills efforts in these case's merited a personal mention in Richard Webster's acclaimed book, The Secrets of Bryn Estyn "The making of a modern witch hunt". Gill's efforts and successes helped to bring to the attention of the public and Parliament the inherent dangers of the police practice of "trawling" for alleged victims of abuse, which can lead to false allegations based on motives of financial reward. Gill has addressed MPs at the Houses of Parliament on the subject and is regularly invited to attend and participate at such meetings. Gill is also a member of our Private Family Law Department headed by Michelle Gallagher. MICHELLE GALLAGHER Michelle Gallagher was formerly a Police Officer in the North of England having served for eight years in a variety of posts within the service before retiring and studying law achieving LLB (Hons) and LLM (Hons) graduating from The University of Northumbria with a Masters degree specialising in 'Advanced Legal Practice' Michelle completed her training with a large specialist Criminal & Family firm in Newcastle upon Tyne and has continued to specialise in Family and Criminal law in general practice over the last eight years. Michelle has joined us to head the Private Family department undertaking, Divorce, Matrimonial & Relationship Disputes, Children, Residence and Contact Disputes. Michelle has experience acting for clients involved in High Value financial settlements including property and pensions. Michelle also works alongside Tony Jackson in the Criminal Duty Solicitors Dept and has experience of serious category crime including Murder, Rape, and Assaults and Firearms offences along with serious offences of Theft, Fraud and Road Traffic matters. TONY JACKSON A graduate of London University, Tony Jackson completed his training in Newcastle Upon Tyne with a large local firm who dealt with a wide range of both civil and criminal matters Tony qualified in 1973. After two further years on Tyneside he moved to Hartlepool where he worked for the next 30 years. During that time Tony became a member of the Family Law Panel, the Court and Police Station duty solicitor schemes and also a practising member of the U.K College of Family Mediators. Tony has a wide experience in both the family and criminal fields in the latter dealing with cases from speeding to murder, and from common assaults to rape. Tony heads our Duty Solicitor department in the North East of England and works along Michelle Gallagher in the Family Law Department.