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Fraud : George Sale
George Sale was educated at Marlborough College and Bristol University. He served his articles with a well known Reading firm Messrs Pitman & Bazett. After qualification, he returned to Bristol to specialise in Industrial accident work, licensing for major supermarkets and prosecutions for the Department of Social Security.
In 1971, he joined Bell Lamb & Joynson tasked to develop a general litigation department on the Wirral, becoming a partner in 1972, (in the same year) head of Criminal law and senior partner in 2002. During that time he built up a substantial and successful criminal law practice representing many defendants in high profile criminal cases, including 2 visits to the House of Lords on appeal, the last in 2003.
Throughout this time there has been an increasing emphasis on serious fraud and high profile drugs cases. In 1990, he represented the interest of two Liverpool business men charged with corruption arising from the awarding and performance of housing contracts with Liverpool City Council. Both were acquitted. In 1992, he acted for two business men charged with fraud on a contractor to various Government agencies in connection with construction projects with a value of over £10 million. Between 1992 and 1997, he was involved in representing defendants in several high profile alleged mortgage frauds.
In 1997, he was invited to represent the interests of a well known TV personality, alleged to be involved in the dissemination of confidential information derived from a senior police officer to members of the underworld. The case attracted huge publicity. It was an extremely complex case and during the preparation it became essential to hone skills in the use of computers and virtual evidence, especially relating to telephone evidence. That experience has been developed in other cases involving alleged drugs manufacture and money laundering cases.
In 1998, he represented a local Liverpool drugs supplier who became involved in the purchase of information from an allegedly corrupt police officer. The case involved analysis of technical assistance used to gather evidence and the analysis of extensive telephone traffic. As a result of careful preparation, the client was able to escape a prison sentence.
In 2003, he represented a German national charged with an advanced fee fraud involving debt collection and debt insurance. The case was hugely complex, classified as a designated serious fraud involving 12 other defendants, and requiring the analysis of the content of at least 15 computers and over 100,000 pages of evidence and unused material.
In 2004, he was involved in the largest Money laundering and tax evasion case to be heard in the North West. This involved the analysis of bank transactions, financial and property transactions and the consideration of in excess of ½ million pages of unused material.
He specialises in the analysis of any evidence which is capable of being rendered electronically, especially telephone records, mobile phone data, banking records and surveillance records.
He is a duty solicitor and a member of the Serious Fraud Panel with supervisor status.
