Foundry Chambers

Foundry Chambers.

YEAR OF CALL 2002

Prosecution and defence.

Zarah Dickinson is a criminal specialist with a practice covering a wide spectrum of offences. She prosecutes and defends serious and complex cases, frequently involving allegations of sexual abuse. She is a Specialist Rape Prosecutor (CPS) and Grade 4 Prosecutor (CPS) and regularly provides pre-charge advices for the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit (CPS).

Zarah is highly commended for her ability to deal with vulnerable witnesses and clients and is known for her excellent client care, exact advice and robust advocacy.

Zarah is experienced in confiscation matters and regularly prosecutes on behalf of a number of local authorities. Local authority work includes benefit fraud, counterfeit goods offences, and offences under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Environmental Protection Act 1990. She also advises local authorities on judicial review. She prosecutes on behalf of the National Probation Service.

She has appellate experience and provides second-opinion advice in appeals against conviction and sentence.

Zarah has developed a specialism in driving matters, ranging from driving with excess alcohol to death by dangerous driving cases, and so has experience in advising on expert evidence and inquiries.

Zarah is an Advocacy Trainer for Inner Temple.

Appointments: CPS Advocate Panel at Level 4

Memberships: Criminal Bar Association

2001 Durham University, Law LLB 2002 BPP, BVC (‘Very competent’)