Deka Chambers

Crime, Financial Crime

Eleanor has built up a successful practice dealing with the highest level of financial crime. She regularly prosecutes and defends in high value cases; often where the defendant is a professional and/or other position of authority. She has been praised for her ability to unpick expert evidence, making it accessible to a jury and her success in cross examining expert-witnesses.

Eleanor has considerable experience in the following areas: Bribery and corruption, Fraud (including high value investment fraud, income tax fraud and VAT evasion), Insider dealing/market abuse and other FSMA 2000/FSA 2012 offences.

Recent cases: first junior for the SFO in the high-profile corruption case R v GPT Ltd, Cook & Others, R v Rivera (fraud by abuse of position), R v Major and Attra (fraud committed by a solicitor and translator on the Legal Aid Agency), R v Scrafton (Solicitor defrauding a charity) and Das v Asplin (CEO of a company). Eleanor also deals frequently with Proceeds of Crime Act [POCA] matters including confiscation and restraint matters. She regularly appears in high value applications for the detention of cash or freezing of assets/accounts.

Called 2001.

Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

Eleanor is a CPS Grade 4 Fraud Specialist, a SFO A Panel Advocate and a Grade B Regulatory list (Health and Safety and Environmental Law).

Eleanor is the Co-Vice Chair of the Bar Council’s Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee. She is also a CBA committee member and its Co-Director of Equality and Diversity.

Eleanor regularly lectures on the Fraud Act.

Leeds University (BA Hons),

City University (Dip Law),

Gray's Inn Scholar.