Bindmans LLP

Crime, Fraud and Regulatory.

Associate, Crime, Fraud and Regulatory

Catherine defends professionals such as accountants, teachers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, diplomats and journalists accused of criminal acts in the course of their employment and outside of their work. She is known for her ability to secure discontinuance and alternative forms of disposal on behalf of her clients, including in cases where the allegation has been as serious as rape.

She has defended a large number of high profile individuals, both male and female, accused of historic sexual offences, most recently in the wake of the #MeToo campaign. Most of these police investigations have resolved without prosecution or publicity.

Catherine specialises in acting for parents falsely accused of harming their children. In particular, she has represented parents in alleged ‘baby shaking’ investigations and Court proceedings, including a mother of twins and a mother of triplets, neither of whom were ultimately charged. Through this work she is privileged to have instructed some of the best medical experts in the world.

Internationally, Catherine defends in complex multi-jurisdictional fraud cases such as an alleged plot to defraud the Libyan state out of billions of pounds, a ‘fake sheikh’ case with more than a million dollars allegedly embezzled from Saudi Arabian royalty and one of the largest confiscation proceedings ever to be prosecuted with an alleged benefit figure of £50 million. She has successfully defended people accused of facilitating unlawful immigration into the UK by the Home Office Criminal and Financial Investigations Team; and clients investigated by SO15 Counter Terrorism Command and questioned under Schedule 7 Terrorism Act 2006.

Catherine was called to the Bar from Lincoln’s Inn in 2005 and cross-qualified as a solicitor at Bindmans LLP in 2008, where she has worked since.

Catherine graduated in 2001 from Royal Holloway with a degree in Modern History. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Law at the College of Law in 2002, and the Bar Vocational Course at BPP Law School in 2005.