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Campaigners call for tougher laws to protect Stalking Victims
16th May 2012There are currently as many as 120,000 cases of stalking in the UK every year. However, only 2% of the 53,000 cases that are reported to the Police end in criminal convictions. [read more]
Legal Services Board calls for further regulations
15th May 2012Some people may call the United Kingdom a Nanny State, subject to too much red-tape and legislation to understand or to have to consider. However much this may be true in some areas, in the area of will-writing there are calls from professional bodies for further regulation to be put in place to protect consumers. [read more]
Dispute over control
15th May 2012The Court of Appeal has recently given judgment in an anticipated case, providing an important authority on a partys obligation to disclose documents within their control in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR). [read more]
Military Law
Gepp & Sons offer a wide range of services to Service Personnel and their families. The Department is headed by Roger Brice who has a formidable reputation for representing Service Personnel in Courts Martial in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland representing them abroad wherever there is a need.
Roger is the Chairman of the Forces Law Network, a network of Solicitors throughout the United Kingdom who offer a comprehensive range of legal services to Service Personnel and retired Service Personnel. Roger is also a member of the Institute of Military Court Advocates in the United Kingdom and is in regular dialogue with other key players in the Military Court system.
Roger has been involved in a number of high profile cases including trials involving several Service Personnel charged with the murder of an Iraqi civilian all of whom were found to have no case to answer after lengthy legal submissions.
Gepp & Sons regularly deal with Court Martial’s involving all aspects of criminal and military law and we regularly attend interviews with Service Personnel and members of the Special Investigations Branch and Royal Military Police both in the United Kingdom and abroad. We are regularly appointed directly by Service Personnel to represent them at Court Martial proceedings and appointed by the Armed Forces Criminal Legal Aid Authority on behalf of Service Personnel. Representation is accepted both privately and under the terms of the Armed Forces Criminal Legal Aid Authority.
In addition to representing Service Personnel in before Court Martial’s we also represent service personnel in disciplinary proceedings.
Service personnel also have the advantage of the wide expertise that Gepp & Sons has in matters of employment, litigation, wills and probate, family law, resettlement and lasting powers of attorney.
Gepp & Sons know the language of service personnel, our property and conveyancing department regularly deal with service personnel taking advantage of the long service advance of pay (LSAP) scheme to help them get on the housing ladder. Eligible personnel can receive an interest free loan of up to £8, 500.00 which can be put towards the security of buying a house perhaps as a deposit.
The expertise that Gepp & Sons have dealing with service personnel and Military Law is second to none.
For more Information please complete our Enquiry Form call us on 01245 49 39 39 or email mail@gepp.co.uk
