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Caroline Haughey KC KC
Work Department
Practice areas: Crime, regulatory, coroners inquests and public enquiries.
Position
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 Caroline continues to be instructed in the most high profile and complex of Human Trafficking / Modern Slavery Cases. As author of the Firstly Modern Slavery Review – and joint legal adviser on the Second Modern Slavery Act review she advises and lectures on the implementation of her recommendations on a policing, practitioner, judicial and government level internationally and domestically. She is also a contributor to 2nd edition “Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Law and Practice.
She successfully prosecuted the first child sex exploitation and the first child labour exploitation under the Act, the latter, was the subject of the BBC2 “Crown Prosecutors” series. She has successfully prosecuted the largest labour exploitation case in Europe “Operation Fort” with over 300 victims (BBC 1 Panorama Program “The Slave Kings”.)
She has particular skill in the prosecution of OCG’s with an international dimension and has significant experience in dealing with JITs’ and foreign evidence.
Caroline’s defence practice is focused on murder, serious violence and drugs alongside cases with disclosure issues at the fore. She has expertise in areas of complex forensic evidence: LCN DNA, entomology, causation etc. She appears before disciplinary panels and provides early intervention guidance to corporate bodies and private individuals on both criminal and regulatory matters.
She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her public service in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking.
Career
Called 1999; former lecturer in Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act, Criminology and Advocacy at UEL; QC 2018.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Modern Slavery Act 2015 review: one year on – www.gov.uk
- Second Modern Slavery Act review 2019 joint legal advisor.
- Co Author together with Professor Padfield and Riel Karmy – Jones QC Criminal Law Review editorial on Modern Slavery.
- Contributing author of 4 chapters of CPAUK Modern Slavery E Handbook for Parliamentarians.
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Editorial contributor to Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Law and Practice 2nd Edition.(Bloomsbury press)
Languages
Conversational French.
Memberships
Middle Temple, CBA, member of the Northern Ireland Bar, retired member of the Bar Standards Professional Conduct Committee, retired Kalisher Trust Trustee, retired Concord Trust, formally External Examiner in Criminal Law for the BSB, Trustee Anti Slavery Collective, Trinity College, Dublin. Provosts council member, HUman Traffickng Council, McCain Institute.
Education
Wycombe Abbey. Trinity College, Dublin (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Caroline Haughey KC – Furnival Chambers ‘Caroline is simply formidable. She is exceptionally bright, hardworking and very down to earth. She has a fantastic ability to digest vast quantities of information and to break it down into easy-to-understand concepts for a jury. She gets her points across in a structured and beautiful way allowing even difficult concepts to be easily understood. Moreover, Caroline is the foremost expert in human trafficking in the UK.’
Furnival Chambers is widely thought of as ‘a strong set from top to bottom with a body of barristers well equipped to deal with the whole spectrum of criminal cases’. Caroline Haughey KC is well known as ‘the foremost expert in human trafficking in the UK’. Her practice also extends to high-profile murder cases, particularly those involving children and vulnerable adults. ‘Careful and thoughtful advocate’ Caroline Carberry KC regularly appears at the Old Bailey to both prosecute and defend in the most serious and complex cases. She recently led the prosecution of Swedish national Marius Gustavson (self-styled as the “eunuch maker”) and nine others, charged with performing extreme body modification procedures, including castration and freezing off of limbs, and selling video footage of the procedures as well as the excised human tissue. Gustavson was convicted of various offences, including conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 22 years.