Crime; Civil
Kat Shields defends and prosecutes in the Crown Court. She deals with serious general crime and financial crime. She is a Grade 3 Crown Prosecutor, sits on a number of CPS Specialist Panels including for Fraud, and is on the SFO’s “C” Panel of Counsel.
Kat also practises in employment law and personal injury.
Pegasus Scholar 2023 (India)
Completed pupillage in 2018; member of 7BR since then.
From 2017 to 2019 Kat was part of a research team producing the Lexis Nexis monthly updates to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. Before becoming a barrister, she was a secondary school English teacher with the “Teach First” charity.
Fluent French
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (BA Law & Law Studies in Europe (France), 2013), PGCE English (2014), BPTC University of Law (2016)
