Monday, 1 April 2019

Prominent criminal lawyer 'failed to disclose firm's debts' when she sold it

Extradition specialist Karen Todner in high court battle with One Legal Services

One of the country’s top criminal lawyers failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of pounds of debts owed by her firm when she offloaded the business in 2016, according to allegations in a high court claim.

Karen Todner, who helped to fight US extradition requests on behalf of the alleged Nasa hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love, is accused along with her advisers in a civil claim of hiding a series of liabilities, including allowing her former firm to write £275,000 worth of cheques which were then stored in an office drawer instead of being sent to payees.

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