Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill

White Collar Crime

Partner

Tiara Katrina leads the White Collar Crime Practice, with her strong background in criminal litigation and criminal advisory work. She graduated from the University of Leeds, England and subsequently completed the Bar Professional Training Course in London. Tiara Katrina was called to the Bar as a Barrister-at-Law of England and Wales by Inner Temple before returning to Malaysia to establish her criminal practice.

She has an extensive track record of conducting and assisting in numerous high-profile and public interest cases involving corruption, abuse of power, criminal breach of trust, cheating, money laundering offences, and offences under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007, amongst others, at all levels of the Malaysian courts.

Her experience extends to various stages of the criminal justice process, including investigations, trials, appeals, constitutional references, revisionary and habeas corpus applications as well as resisting forfeiture proceedings instituted by the Attorney General’s Chambers or other governmental agencies. Against this backdrop, she also provides comprehensive advice to companies and institutions regarding compliance with regulatory provisions attaching criminal liability.

She has frequently developed arguments challenging the constitutionality of existing penal provisions or otherwise raised points of constitutional importance at all levels of the appellate courts.

With an interest in developing public legal literacy, Tiara Katrina regularly contributes to various news media outlets analysing current public interest and criminal justice issues, in addition to conducting criminal law workshops for governmental agencies and non-profit organisations.

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LLB (Hons), University of Leeds Bar Professional Training Course, BPP Law School, London Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple) Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya