No5 Barristers' Chambers

Crime (fraud), public law, coronial law.

Caroline specialises in criminal law and her practice has encompassed almost every type of case. Within the last year Caroline has been instructed on various extremely serious matters, including murder, rape, child rape and kidnapping, a case involving bombs being left around central London, a large scale drugs importation worth £20m, counterfeiting Microsoft software, unlawful sexual intercourse with a 12 year-old, a complex forgery involving a 101 year-old victim, serious sexual assaults on children, charities fraud, GBH, armed robbery and arson. She has also defended in video pornography, and cases involving automatic life sentences. She is currently instructed on various cases, a selection of which includes two murders, an IRA case, GBH, robbery, aggravated burglary, importation and conspiracy to supply class A drugs, violent disorder, threats to kill, and a multi-handed controlling prostitution, among other matters. Computer literate – can receive work by fax, e-mail or on CD. Instructed on a large-scale MTIC VHCC Fraud.

Called 1993. Awarded the Ver Heyden de Lancey Prize in Forensic Medicine and Science (ICSL 1992); Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences (Society of Apothecaries of London 2002). Judicial appointments: H M Coroner for the Isle of Wight – appointed July 2012. Assistant Deputy Coroner: North London – appointed April 2009; East London – appointed December 2010; Cheshire – appointed September 2011; Inner North London – appointed September 2011; Western District of West Yorkshire – appointed February 2013.

CBA; Forensic Science Society; British Academy of Forensic Science; Amnesty International; Association of Women Barristers; Association of Women Judges; South Eastern Circuit; The Coroners’ Society; South East England Coroners’ Society; South England Coroners’ Society.

LLB Hons; Dip FMS.