The 36 Group

36 Crime

Nadia Silver's expertise is in the prosecution of serious organised crime, homicide, serious violence, and fraud. She also undertakes regulatory work, in particular prosecutions on behalf of local authority trading standards departments, in cases ranging from fraudulent trading to the sale of counterfeit goods. She is a CPS Grade 4 Prosecutor.

Nadia Silver's expertise is in the prosecution of serious organised crime, homicide, serious violence, and fraud. She also undertakes regulatory work, in particular prosecutions on behalf of local authority trading standards departments, in cases ranging from fraudulent trading to the sale of counterfeit goods. She appears both as junior and leading counsel in the cases of the utmost factual and technical complexity. She is a CPS Grade 4 Prosecutor.

Recent notable cases include:

Operation Debating (Birmingham CC - 2023 - ongoing): a case arising from Operation Venetic, the NCA investigation into the use of the EncroChat encrypted messaging platform by serious organised crime groups. Nadia is instructed by the Serious Organised Economic and International Directorate of the CPS as leading counsel in this prosecution of five defendants charged with a conspiracy to import approximately 140 Kg of cocaine into the West Midlands from the Netherlands.

Operation Riddle (Northampton CC - 2023): Nadia was instructed by the East Midlands Complex Casework Unit as sole counsel, in this prosecution of a large group defendants charged with a Conspiracy to Supply Class A drugs.  The case concerned the activities of a Leicester-based organised crime group and involved the analysis and presentation of complex telephone evidence, covert surveillance and evidence from undercover police officers.  The case resulted in 15 convictions.

R v Nindi (Notthingham CC - 2022): Nadia was instructed at an early stage to advise as to the appropriate charging in this unusual case which involved the death of a woman who had consented to undergo a traditional Zimbabwean medical practice conducted by the defendant which involved the consumption of tobacco powder.  The defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful act manslaughter.

Operation Poetry (Northampton CC 2021): Nadia was instructed by the East Midlands Complex Casework Unit as leading counsel, in a series of three linked prosecutions of separate county-lines drug trafficking conspiracies in Northampton.  Each arose from a single, highly resourced investigation, which deployed undercover officers over a period of months to investigate the activities of organised crime groups based in London and Birmingham.  Each case involved the coercion of young and vulnerable individuals by those higher up in the criminal hierarchy.

Called 2001; Middle Temple.

Direct Public Access qualified.

Former editor, publishing industry.

Areas of experience: Consumer Financial Crime Health and Safety Serious & Complex Crime

Nadia is a member of the Criminal Bar Association; and of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Newstead Wood School For Girls.

Nadia graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA (First Class) in English Language and Literature in 1995; and a MA (Distinction) in Literature from Commonwealth Countries in 1996.

She undertook legal studies at City University, obtaining her CPE / Post Graduate Diploma in Law in 2000.

She completed the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law in 2001 and was called by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple the same year. She was the recipient of Middle Temple Benefactor’s Scholarships for both her CPE and BVC.