Trading standards intervention into your business can result in damage to your reputation, involve lost revenue or at worst criminal convictions and business closure. These risks can be significantly reduced with specialist legal advice at an early stage.
Our UK trading standards lawyers understand that minimal disruption to your business is the key. With a proven track record of ensuring the best possible outcome for clients, we will quickly but thoroughly assess the trading standards issues and act efficiently to resolve officers’ concerns.
Trading standards proceedings
Where trading standards proceedings have commenced or become unavoidable we will ensure minimal damage on you and your business.
We are on hand to provide urgent trading standards advice and support in relation the full range of trading standards enforcement powers including:
- Consumer protection, advertising practices including web based sales, trade description and copyright
- General product safety and product recall
- Supply and sale of age restricted products
- Food labelling and safety
- Licensing, weights and measures
- Issue and execution of search warrants
- PACE 1984 interviews and questionnaires
- Magistrates and Crown Court Proceedings
Key contacts
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 151 600 8843
- derek.millard-smith@hilldickinson.com
Richard Green heads the ‘outstanding’ team at Hill
Dickinson LLP. New associate Derek Millard-Smith specialises in
Trading Standards investigations.
