Meet The Teams

Anne commenced her legal career as a legal advisor to Magistrates, as a Magistrates clerk in Bradford. In 1990, Anne qualified as a solicitor and joined GSB in 1991, becoming a partner in 1993. Anne is a police station and Magistrate’s Court duty solicitor, and has held the Higher Courts (Criminal Proceedings) Qualification since 2006.

Anne is highly experienced in all aspects of criminal defence work and advocacy and is the firm’s Criminal Law Supervisor.

Anne is highly regarded as an experienced and tenacious advocate, with a conscientious approach and commitment to her clients.

Andrew studied law at University College London before returning north to attend the College of Law at York.

Andrew trained at a local high street firm and qualified as a solicitor in 1998. He had a general practice but one of the first criminal cases he dealt with involved a series of armed robberies across Yorkshire and featured on Crimewatch.

In 2000 Andrew decided to practice exclusively in crime and moved to Grahame Stowe Bateson in Leeds. Andrew remained on the Duty Solicitor Scheme in Harrogate and the following he developed was one of the reasons the firm expanded into North Yorkshire and opened an office in Harrogate. In 2004 Andrew was made a partner.

Andrew continues to deal with all types of criminal cases but has a particular interest and expertise in road traffic matters. He has travelled all over the country to represent clients who need to preserve their driving licenses.

Abbi completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Criminology and Psychology at university before completing a post graduate diploma in law.

She qualified as a solicitor in 2005, then obtained her higher rights in 2010

She has been a member of the duty solicitor scheme for over 10 years

On a daily basis she represents clients being interviewed under caution, either under arrest or as a volunteer, at various locations including police stations and appears before both the magistrates and crown court dealing with all types of criminal defence work from speeding offences to murder.

She has been involved in a number of fraud cases of substantial financial complexity. She has a sound knowledge of POCA proceedings.

She is a specialist in complex conspiracy matters and firearms offences including the legislative minefield that is the Firearms Act.

Abbi has substantial experience in representing individuals and firms being investigated by both the health and safety executive and the environment agency.

She has previous experience attending and representing interested parties at Coroners inquests and also prisoners serving life sentences before the parole board.

Stewart Page started work for GSB in 1989. He worked as a Crown Court Clerk where he obtained a wealth of experience preparing serious cases and working alongside many barristers who are now themselves Judges and Queens Counsel.  Stewart then qualified as a fully accredited police station representative in 1997 and has been regularly attending police stations across Yorkshire and beyond dealing with every type of offence; from minor road traffic to multiple allegations of murder.

Stewart qualified as a solicitor in May 2005 and was made a partner in July 2009. He uses the wealth of experience gained over the last 26 years to defend his clients to a very high standard and prides himself on his exceptional client care. Stewart deals with all aspects of Criminal Defence and is a member of the Duty Solicitor Scheme.

Outside of work, Stewart enjoys spending time with family and friends and the occasional skiing holiday.

Neal has 34 years of continuous experience, as a qualified lawyer, working in the criminal justice system. He has been a duty solicitor for 19 years and a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Criminal Proceedings) for 9 years.

He now specialises in Crown Court advocacy and has secured acquittals at trial, in the Crown Court, in cases as diverse as burglary, robbery, blackmail, conspiracy to supply drugs and child neglect. He has been junior to leading counsel in serious, lengthy trials, including murder and has appeared in the Court of Appeal.

Chris enjoyed a career as an engineer working in Africa, the Middle East, Norway, Netherlands and on North Sea oil rigs before returning to university to study law in 1990.

He qualified as a solicitor in 1997 having worked at a major north east law firm for 5 years and has been a duty solicitor since 1998.

He has been a partner running two law firms in North Yorkshire since 2002 dealing exclusively in criminal defence work and has represented clients across the country in relation to matters ranging from murder to shop theft.

Gary started his legal career in 1985 as a clerk at Walker Morris. As the Police and Criminal Evidence Act came into force he started regularly attending police stations to give advice to clients under arrest and became an accredited police station advisor in 1998.

Gary worked for Robert Moore Colleton Solicitors since 2003 and moved to Grahame Stowe Bateson in 2008 when the two firms merged.

Throughout this time Gary has mainly run the police station department, whilst also attending prisons and conducting civil actions against the police. He has undertaken thousands of police interviews and maintains a client base who knows that they will be given the right advice.

Andrew has over 25 years’ experience dealing with all aspects of criminal litigation and is Duty Solicitor Accredited. He specialises in road traffic law and has particular experience in representing clients who are at risk of discretionary disqualifications, having accumulated 12 or more penalty points. 

He also has many years experience of representing corporate clients who are being investigated and/or prosecuted by regulatory organisations, such as the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, the Health and Safety Executive, Trading Standards, the Environment Agency and Local Authorities. 

Andrew guides those clients through processes such as interviews under caution and is well versed in negotiations with Government Agencies, either as a preliminary or as an alternative to prosecutions.