Exchange Chambers

Criminal

Natalia is a highly experienced criminal practitioner who prosecutes and defends in a wide range of cases. She has particular expertise handling disclosure in serious and complex cases involving large amounts of material and digital material. She acted as Disclosure Counsel/Junior Counsel in Operation Resolve (Hillsborough) from June 2016 through to the Hillsborough trial and re-trial in 2019.

She specialises in serious crime, in particular fraud and money laundering offences, drugs conspiracies and firearms offences. Through meticulous preparation she is able to quickly get to grips with the issues in the case and provide sound, practical advice. She also prosecutes and defends sexual offences, violent offences, health and safety offences and POCA proceedings.

Natalia is a Category 3 prosecutor and is on the Counter Terrorism panel, the Serious Crime Panel and the Fraud Panel. She has also been appointed to the Specialist Regulatory Panel (List B). She has been instructed by the Serious Fraud Office as part of a disclosure exercise involving a multi-million pound fraud. She is regularly instructed to prosecute cases on behalf of Local Authorities, the DWP, the Environment Agency and the Department of Innovation and Skills. She is on the National Procurement Service Panel for public sector work in Wales.

She has been instructed to defend in high value POCA applications, enforcement hearings, private driving matters and local authority concerning food health and safety.

Called 2007; Category 3 Prosecutor

Criminal Bar Association

University of Birmingham Degree: BA Politics (1999 – 2002) College of Law Chester Graduate Diploma in Law (2005 – 2006 College of Law London Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent, 2006–2007) Inn: Middle Temple