As a recognised
market leader for over two decades, BURTON
COPELAND LLP has an enviable reputation which
extends throughout the full spectrum of criminal
litigation. |
From four offices
in Greater Manchester, the team of over
60 fee earners offers unparalleled
breadth and depth of expertise. One of
the largest general criminal departments
in the country is complemented by
specialist departments.
The firm is one of 25 nationally, which
were awarded the status of “Preferred
Supplier” by the Legal Services
Commission in their recent pilot and is
the largest of the Legal Services
Commission suppliers in Greater
Manchester. Clients range from a number
of national corporations, celebrities
from the worlds of sport and
entertainment to the private individual
confronted by the state resourced police
and Crown Prosecution Service.
Principal Areas of Work:
General Crime: The firm offers
advice and representation on all aspects
of criminal and related investigations
and litigation. In terms of general
crime, the firm has acted in many of the
major criminal trials ranging from the
most minor to the most serious offences.
The firm has acted in a number of
nationally reported cases involving
allegations of shaken baby syndrome and
sudden infant death. In addition,
specialist units offer representation in
specific areas:
Business Crime including Computer
Misuse and Fraud: The firm is a
member of the Serious Fraud panel and
has been since its inception. Cases
undertaken range from corporate fraud,
VAT irregularities, Revenue
investigations, infringement of
copyright/trade marks and proceedings
involving the Assets Recovery Agency.
Health and Safety: The firm has
been involved in the defence of all
aspects ranging from
investigations/prosecutions for minor
breaches of the regulations through to a
number of prosecutions for gross
negligence manslaughter.
Medical and Nursing Care: Recent
years have seen the growth of
prosecutions against medical and nursing
staff relating to the care of patients
in their charge. The firm is regularly
instructed on referral by professional
bodies whose members are also
represented in professional disciplinary
proceedings.
Road Traffic: The dedicated road
traffic unit,
www.drivingoffence.com continues to
achieve notable success in the defence
of “speed camera” offences, allegations
of drink driving and the plethora of
regulations with which the motorist and
the transport industry has to cope.
Harry Ward
Practice Manager, Burton Copeland LLP |
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Trojan Horse Viruses
In the context of computer
software, a Trojan horse is a program that installs
malicious software while under the guise of doing
something else. Though not limited in their payload,
Trojan horses are more notorious for installing backdoor
programs which allow unauthorized remote access to the
victim's machine by unwanted parties - normally with
malicious intentions. Unlike a computer virus, a Trojan
horse does not propagate by inserting its code into
other computer files. The term is derived from the
classical myth of the Trojan Horse. Like the mythical
Trojan Horse, the malicious code is hidden in a computer
program or other computer file which may appear to be
useful, interesting, or at the very least harmless to an
unsuspecting user. When this computer program or file is
executed by the unsuspecting user, the malicious code is
also executed resulting in the installation of the
malicious Trojan horse program. (See Social
engineering.)
There are two common types of Trojan horses. One is
ordinary software that has been corrupted by a hacker. A
cracker inserts malicious code into the program that
executes while the program is used. Examples include
various implementations of weather alerting programs,
computer clock setting software, and peer-to-peer file
sharing utilities. The other type of Trojan is a
standalone program that masquerades as something else,
like a game or image file, in order to trick the user
into executing the file. |
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