Is Crime Ever Worth It?

•If someone hadn’t already beaten you to the post wouldn’t you have loved to have come up with the title crime and punishment for a book?

•Crime and the punishment like most aspects of law simply reflect the society we live in and at different times in history as well as with different cultures can vary enormously.

•In eighteenth and nineteenth century England the smallest first time offence could get you deported to the Colonies. Nowadays you hear about someone committing dozens of offences over a few years and never getting a custodial punishment.

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•In other parts of the world people are still stoned for adultery and have hands chopped off for thieving.

•As a trainee or assistant solicitor it usually becomes necessary to specialise in one particular aspect of law. It could be property, criminal or probate and family. Large law firms can have many more specialised departments such as shipping, media or employment.

•If you find yourself in a spot of trouble in West London then criminal solicitors Hammersmith in the guise of Owen White and Catlin may be the ones for you.

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•Unless you are in very serious trouble and need to appoint a barrister the first step should always be the local solicitor.

•A local solicitor will share a lot of common knowledge and that may be useful in understanding the attitudes of the police and magistrates. This is always useful as the experience may help decide on defence and mitigation.

•Most lawyers specialise these days but it wasn’t always the case. One of the trends these days is for law firms to grow bigger with small ones getting swallowed up.

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•The days of the one-man all-round practice country solicitor is fast disappearing. A medium size practice such as this one with several offices scattered around West London will have a specialist department to cover all aspects of law.

•As stated earlier, law is an organic constantly changing business thanks to Parliament and this is why it becomes harder for one person to be constantly up to date with every department.

•Unless you are a habitual recidivist like the lovable rogue in the television series named after breakfast oats, you will always feel a little nervous about stepping into a solicitor’s office. http://www.owenwhitecatlin.co.uk/

•It may be that you are about to meet a stranger and have to off-load intimate details or confess to some criminal activity. It therefore helps if the firm you visit make a very big effort to put you at your ease.

•If you are not relaxed and comfortable with your legal representative then it can be more difficult to get to understand whether there are some underlying mitigating circumstances that could help your cause.

•We have looked mostly at criminal defence but of course you could equally be in need of a criminal lawyer to help bring you justice against another party.

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We have six offices located in South West LondonAddlestone

Ashford

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Hammersmith

Shepperton

Solicitors London

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Thanks for your time

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