Stephensons solicitors join CrimeDiary
Tuckers is delighted to welcome Stephensons onto CrimeDiary. Stephensons becomes the fourth large criminal defence firm to be a member of CrimeDiary, using the bespoke software to better manage their current diary requirements and opening up the potential benefits of more collaborative styles of working through the shared database of appointments.
Adam Makepeace, Practice Director of Tuckers said, “this is a fantastic step forward for the CrimeDiary project. Tuckers & Stephensons share the goal of delivering high quality criminal defence services, but in the face of relentless cuts, understand the need to work in partnership with others to achieve this. As Stephensons becomes the third major firm in London and the second in the Greater Manchester to join CrimeDiary, we can both rely on the quality of the representation provided by the other in the event we act as agents. Also, we can continue to reach out to the best quality police station representatives and independent Mags & Crown Court advocates to work directly with CrimeDiary firms.”
Sean Joyce, Head of Regulatory & Criminal Justice at Stephensons said “we remain totally committed to providing criminal legal aid services and refuse to compromise on our obligations to ensure that our clients have the very best representation. We recognise the need for innovation in order to achieve this and have invested heavily in our own infrastructure and processes to represent our clients within a digital criminal justice system. CrimeDiary is a natural extension of this process of change. Recognising that shared values relating to the best interests of clients are more important than petty concerns about competition between firms, we are certain that both the business case for Stephensons and the needs of our clients are well served by collaborative concepts such as CrimeDiary. We look forward to working closely with Tuckers and other CrimeDiary firms in the future.”
Note: CrimeDiary is, amongst other things, a bespoke criminal defence firm diary, currently offered free to firms looking to upgrade their paper or Outlook based diary systems. The diary uses a shared appointments database, segmented by user rights which keep individual firms’ appointment data confidential to that firm, at the same time as being able to access the wider benefits of the collaborative concepts described more fully at www.crimediary.co.uk