About the firm — Crown Solicitors

A straight answer, first

The most useful thing we can give somebody in the first week is an accurate picture, and sometimes that picture is unwelcome. We would rather say at the outset that a matter is not worth running than take it on and spend your money finding out. When we do act, it is because we think there is something real to go after.

Solicitors and investigators on the same file

The forensic work and the legal work are done by people who sit in the same firm and read the same file. That matters more than it sounds: evidence gathered by somebody who has never had to argue it in front of a judge tends not to survive the moment it is tested.

Regulated, and easy to check

Crown Solicitors is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 8011477, authorised on 9 June 2025. That brings compulsory insurance, rules about how client money is held, and a regulator that can stop us practising. All of it can be confirmed on the SRA's public register without asking us anything.

No promises we cannot keep

Nobody honest can guarantee that money lost to fraud will come back, and a confident promise is the clearest sign you are talking to the wrong people. What we commit to is the work, candour about how it is going, and telling you when it is time to stop.

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The team

The people on your matter

Solicitors and forensic investigators. Where a profile is short, that is because only what the firm has confirmed has been published.

Chris Moore
Director & Solicitor
Chris is the principal of Crown Solicitors and leads the firm’s fraud, scam and asset-recovery work. He has oversight of every matter the firm takes on.
Benjamin Siegel
Senior Associate, Fraud Recovery
Benjamin is a senior associate in the fraud recovery team. He runs recovery matters from the first assessment through to enforcement, and is one of the people a client deals with directly.
Paul McClorry
Senior Associate, Fraud Recovery
Paul is a senior associate in the fraud recovery team. He takes recovery claims from evidence-gathering through to the applications and proceedings that put money back within reach.
Steve Whiteside
Forensic Investigator
Steve is a forensic investigator with the firm. He establishes where money went and who handled it, and prepares that account to the standard the claim will be built on.
John Cuss
Forensic Investigator
John is a forensic investigator with the firm. He works on the evidential side of recovery matters, turning transaction records into a trail that holds up when it is tested.
Caroline Murgatroyd
Solicitor
Caroline is a solicitor in the fraud and asset-recovery team, working on recovery matters and on claims made against banks and payment providers.
Helen Saunders
Solicitor
Helen is a solicitor in the fraud and asset-recovery team, working on recovery matters and on complaints put to regulators and ombudsman schemes.
Maria Repanos
Solicitor
Maria is a solicitor in the fraud and asset-recovery team, working on recovery matters and on the applications that trace and secure funds.