Practices at LMP Legal
The support we provide is essential:
Private Crime
Suspected of a criminal offence?
- don’t gamble with your representation. Having to fight the Police and CPS without adequate support is tough.
A person who is accused of any serious criminal offence feels the full weight of the police and CPS come down on them; it is a terrifying and worrying time. Our specialist criminal defence lawyers commit fully to your case with skill, experience, expert knowledge and contacts.
Motor Crime and
Transport Regulatory
Our criminal motor defence team is made up of specialist lawyers, geographically spread across the UK.
Specialist criminal defence experts in speeding, drink driving and motoring offences such as careless and dangerous driving.
Our dedicated 24 hour service provides drivers with access to early advice and police station representation from a specialist lawyer immediately following a collision.
HR and
Employment Law
One of our cornerstones is to be totally committed to delivering outstanding client service at all times.
With our specific sector focuses and many years of dealing with all the challenges that you are likely to face or even a full-on crisis; we are the right legal advisers for you.
Private Crime
Once the police decide to focus in on you, they almost never change their minds. All of their resources are focused on finding evidence that helps them to secure a conviction.
Many suspects spend hours or days in the police station with the prospect of serious charges hanging over them for months. Having to trust a criminal defence lawyer you haven’t known before to represent you in a case that can affect everything in your life is a frightening prospect.
You should be reassured to know that at LMP Legal, we have years of experience in representing all kinds of individuals, including many high profile individuals in the most serious of crimes and potential charges. We leave no stone unturned in providing the highest quality representation to our clients.
Charlotte Le Maire heads up a team of experienced lawyers.
Charlotte and her team, which includes some of the country’s leading barristers, specialise in representing those accused of the following allegations:
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Historic sexual abuse
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Rape and sexual/indecent assault
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Making/possession of indecent images of children
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Sexual Offences Prevention Orders (SOPOs), Sexual Risk Orders (SROs), Sexual Harm Prevention Orders (SHPOs) and other issues relating to the Sex Offenders Register
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Drugs offences
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Assault & offences against the person
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Motoring offences
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At LMP Legal, we provide a specialist focus on representation for high-net-worth individuals, including business leaders and high-profile individuals from the worlds of sport and entertainment.
Our involvement at an early stage in proceedings frequently leads to clients avoiding charge altogether. If matters do progress, we have the resources and contacts necessary to carry out extensive investigations and to ensure meticulous trial preparation.
Reputation management is also at the heart of what we do. We can minimise the impact of a serious criminal allegation on you as an individual or an organisation.
We commit fully to your case with skill, experience and contacts
We put the time in. If it means multiple lawyers on the team or more hours, then that's what we do. It is not just a ‘case’ to us. It is our client’s life and livelihood. We choose top KCs and Barristers. The case that our specialist lawyers prepare must be perfectly presented to the jury.
We don't rest until every avenue has been explored. Site visits, second post-mortems by our pathologists, DNA experts, phone experts, witness tracing are just some of the areas we explore.
4 Simple Steps if you’re accused of a crime…
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Avoid any contact with police without speaking to a solicitor. This includes family liaison officers who can and will gather evidence in the case and often will not be upfront about that.
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Get a top firm of specialist solicitors: to represent you or the family member you're helping. Assuming the duty solicitor or local high street Solicitor must be a specialist in this area is often not a good idea.
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Rely on support from a friend or family member to attend meetings with you and to support you through what is often a very stressful process.
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Anxious about funding?
You may be able to instruct LMP Legal Limited to defend you if you are one of the many people with legal expenses insurance. You may have cover as part of your motor insurance, home insurance, professional indemnity insurance or various other forms of insurance.
If you are facing police investigation, criminal proceedings or an employment dispute you should check whether you have any policies which may cover the cost of your legal representation.
LMP Legal Limited solicitors have successfully defended clients who have funded their case through legal expenses insurance.
Motor Crime and
Transport Regulatory
Our criminal motor defence team is made up of specialist lawyers, geographically spread across the UK.
Our dedicated 24 hour service provides drivers with access to early advice and police station representation from a specialist lawyer immediately following a collision.
How can we help you?
Each member of our team understands the anxieties that drivers experience when they are unexpectedly implicated in a criminal investigation following a fatal or serious road traffic collision. With the introduction of the new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving and life sentences in causing death by dangerous driving cases, the stakes have never been higher.
Our service includes:
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A dedicated 24/7 helpline providing your drivers with a specialist lawyer for advice & representation as soon as a collision occurs.
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Attendance at police station interviews and early dialogue with the police to advise the driver from the moment the collision occurs.
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Pragmatic advice as to the charges faced, ramifications of those charges, and advice/ representation in the event of being charged
We have truly national coverage which enables us to react to a collision quickly.
Our lawyers are specialist criminal lawyers with years of experience in the criminal justice system. We ensure that every client feels protected from the outset. We fight hard for each and every client, leaving no stone unturned to gain the best possible result in every case.
Our early involvement ensures access to critical information which is otherwise unavailable until the conclusion of any criminal investigation and subsequent proceedings allowing for an early and credible assessment of civil liability for brokers & insurers.
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Regulatory Road Transport: regulatory support, representation and O licence protection for fleet operators. We will liaise with DVSA and Office of the Traffic Commissioner as required. We will also provide representation at driver conduct hearings where required;
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O Licence Applications, Renewals and Variations: dealing with all the necessary administration, we will walk you through each step of the application process, avoiding the most common and uncommon errors that cause complications and delays.
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Transport Regulatory Services
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Transport Regulatory: legal support, representation and protection for drivers and employers relating to any alleged criminal motor offence or violation.
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We will liaise with all relevant authorities, third parties, court and, when necessary, interpreters. At the conclusion of each case, we will conduct “Why did it happen?” reviews to establish lessons learned & develop best practice compliance solutions to reduce the chances of it happening again.
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Public Inquiry Advice, Support and Representation: full representation before and after a Public Inquiry including the appeals process. We will help to make this process less stressful and aim to achieve the most positive result possible.
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At the conclusion of each case, we will conduct a “Why Did it Happen?” review to establish lessons learned and develop best practice compliance solutions to help prevent it from happening again in the future.
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HR and Employment Law
One of our cornerstones is to be totally committed to delivering outstanding client service at all times. With our specific sector focuses and many years of dealing with all the challenges that you are likely to face or even a full-on crisis; we are the right legal advisers for you.
Our Flex Services are designed to provide you with commercial and flexible advice and support. We want you to enjoy and appreciate our support from start to finish.
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Contracts of Employment and Service Agreements
Restrictive Covenants
Settlement Agreements
Equal Pay
Whistleblowing
Discrimination
Employment Relationships
TUPE, Redundancy and Restructuring
Unfair Dismissal
Employee Rights and Relations
Discipline and Grievances
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Our specialist areas are
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Terminating Senior Executive/Management
Employment Agreements and Policies
Confidentiality and Non-compete Arrangements
Employment Status / IR35 Legislation
Employment Tribunal Representative
Shareholder Agreements
Director Service Agreements
Agency Worker Regulations
Conduct Regulations
Onshore False Self-Employment Legislation
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LMP Flex allows you to customize the services we offer to support and suit the needs of your business which we believe is crucial given the uncertain times businesses face during pandemics, economic downturns and internal business crises. There is no minimum period for our LMP Flex retainer arrangements. We want you to enjoy and appreciate our support from start to finish.
LMP Flex
Gives you unlimited access to your own dedicated Lawyer for a fixed monthly fee.
LMP Go
Gives you quick access to legal advice as and when your business needs it.
Dedicated Adviser
Your dedicated adviser will get to know you and your business ensuring you receive the best commercial advice to help with all your HR & legal headaches and business needs.
Bespoke Drafting
Your dedicated adviser will review all your existing contracts and handbooks to ensure they are compliant and up to date. Alternatively, they can draft bespoke contracts and handbooks from scratch to suit your business. They will also draft bespoke letters and documents to support the advice provided to you.
LMP Flex
Onsite Support
Our advisers don’t just sit behind a desk! We are aware that you may need face to face support, so we are able to go one step further by providing onsite support.
Virtual Support
We have evolved our services. Your dedicated adviser can not only support you over the phone and email but also virtually. We have various platforms that enable us to have virtual meetings with you which we have found to be invaluable in the current climate.
Employment Tribunal Representation
Unfortunately, Employment Tribunals can sometimes be unavoidable even when you have followed advice. In the event an ET1 lands on your desk, you have the peace of mind that we can deal with the case management preparation and representation for a fixed fee.
Prepare and submit ET3
Deal with Case Management directions
Attendance at hearings
ACAS conciliation