Ian McLarty

Ian McLarty qualified as a Solicitor having completed a Law and Politics Degree at Oxford Brookes University and the Post-Graduate Law Qualification at Guilford Law School. He has Higher Rights of Audience to practice in the Crown Court and appears there regularly. In 1989 he commenced working as a lawyer with Breeze Benton & Co in Tower Hamlets. Aged 27 he became a partner in that firm before 2 years later becoming head of its Crime Department at a time when the firm was quoted in the top lawyers directory Chambers as one of only two firms who had a rated specialism in drug related matters. Whilst at that firm he participated in a number of leading cases often involving Customs & Excise Headquarters based at Lower Thames Street and attended as representative of that firm at the Court of Appeal Hearing which used one of the first rulings concerning the ESDA test (allegation of police fabricating notebooks) overturning the conviction of a number of people said to be notorious members of the Chelsea Headhunters - this technique was then later used in a number of the most prominent miscarriages of justice cases. In 1999 Ian moved to Gilbert Turner Coomber located in Walthamstow with a brief to build their criminal department. This he achieved and at the time he left that firm it was the largest criminal department/firm in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Ian left because he had decided to open his own firm. Welcoming a new challenge, in difficult times due to legal aid cutbacks, Ian opened the new firm in his own name in September 2006. Since this time the firm has more than doubled in size and is indisputably the largest firm in the locality, steadily expanding so there are now 14 Duty Solicitors and internal advocates representing the firm up to seeking the leave of the Court of Appeal.