Hayley Saunders

Hayley joined Shoosmiths in 2007 from Greenwoods LLP where she provided extensive regulatory advice to Network Rail. She has spent time on secondment at the McDonald's legal team and has experience of prosecuting on behalf of government authorities and private prosecutors.

As a specialist regulatory criminal defence lawyer Hayley advises leading companies, directors and individuals on all aspects of regulatory compliance across a range of sectors including retail, food, manufacturing and construction.

Hayley advises at all stages of the criminal investigation including crisis management; interviews under caution; appeals against enforcement notices and conducts her own advocacy in the criminal and Coroners' courts.

• defending a national shop fitting company in relation to an accident at work whereby a shop fascia fatally injured an employee;
• representing a supported living and care home provider throughout the health and safety investigations and inquest into the death of two service users;
• successfully appealed a Fees for Intervention Invoice and two Improvement Notices in relation to safe working practices on a construction site;
• advising a global fast food company in relation to a trade effluent discharge investigation by a water utility provider;
• successfully avoided prosecution for a global retailer following a Trading Standards investigation into the sale of electrical items;
• representing a company director in relation to 3 deaths arising from a Legionnaires Disease outbreak.