Dawn Raids, Search and Seizure

How we can help

• We will deploy staff immediately to check the validity and scope of the search and to advise on the protections available.
• Where necessary, we will monitor the search to ensure that the investigators do not exceed the scope of the warrant, for example by seizing material to which they are not entitled such as any attracting legal professional privilege.
• Once the investigators have gone, we can obtain a copy of the information the investigators put before the judge when obtaining the warrant and then challenge the warrant’s legality. We can also help manage the fall-out from the search, guiding our clients through reputation management challenges, regulatory obligations, employment-related issues and securing the return of seized property.
• We also help our clients, whether individuals or a companies, prepare for the possibility of a dawn raid.

Our approach

We offer cool and calm advice in stressful situations, ensuring that our clients’ rights are fully protected at a time when they are most under threat.

We deal with issues requiring immediate solutions through to devising a considered strategy to see clients through the longer term, assembling a team of the right experts– drawn from our criminal, regulatory, civil, employment or reputation management specialists – to support them.

There is no single blueprint for dealing with a search operation and its aftermath but whether the investigator’s target is an international business or an individual, our clients can be assured that we have the skills and experience to give them the advice they need.