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Charlotte Oliver
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Work Department
Charlotte is a criminal barrister with a successful practice both prosecuting and defending.
Position
Charlotte is a criminal barrister who accepts instructions to prosecute and defend.
Instructing Solicitors have said:
"Both myself and the client are extremely impressed and happy with the result – a case which was not easy to win but with the right tactics and representation there was always hope."
Career
Criminal Defence
Charlotte is regularly instructed to defend in single and multi-handed cases involving serious violence, drug supply, weapons, and importation offences.
Charlotte has particular experience in representing youth clients with complex mental health difficulties. She completed the Vulnerable Witness Training in 2018.
Charlotte continues to accept instructions in the Magistrates’ Court; most successfully representing defendants charged with offences involving the police. She has considerable experience in representing respondents at contested applications for Stalking Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Criminal Behaviour Orders and Restoration Orders.
Criminal Prosecutions - Private & Public
Charlotte is a CPS Grade 3 prosecutor, with experience in all areas of general crime, both in the Crown Court and the Youth Court.
She was recently praised as being ‘a credit to the Bar’ by a Judge sitting at Kingston Crown Court, for the efforts she made to secure a conditional caution for a vulnerable defendant on the day of trial.
Business Crime & Financial Regulation
Charlotte accepts instructions in relation to Business Crime and Financial Crime cases.
Charlotte was instructed as Disclosure Counsel throughout the Financial Conduct Authority’s criminal investigation into NatWest, following the laundering of hundreds of millions of pounds through the Bank. See FCA press release here