Valerie Charbit

Valerie’s diverse practice spans serious criminal cases involving Murder & Manslaughter, Fraud, Health & Safety and Sexual Offences. She also has considerable experience in acting before a number of regulators in Professional Discipline proceedings. She is instructed in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

She is appointed by numerous professional and public bodies to do advisory and advocacy work, and has a broad range of clients from across the public and private sectors.

With vast experience in complex and multi-handed cases, she both prosecutes and defends as a leading junior and is public access accredited (meaning she can take on private work directly).

Her defence work includes representing a variety of professionals before their regulatory bodies.

Her broad experience means she is very well placed to advise in cases where criminal and civil law intersect. Her skill in cross-examining experts across a broad spectrum of areas is well recognised.

Valerie has a particular interest in mental health and is experienced in vulnerable witness advocacy. She delivers training to barristers on this.

Valerie is appointed as a CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 4, highest tier) and to the specialist rape and serious crime group panels. She was also appointed to the Grade A (top tier) list for Specialist Regulatory Advocates in Health & Safety, and to the Panel A list for the Serious Fraud Office.

Since 2004 Valerie has sat as a part-time judge for the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), and she specialises in child and adolescent cases. She also represents health authorities before the First Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal, in restricted cases.

Valerie is Chair of the Regulatory Practice Group at Red Lion Chambers. She is the Wellbeing Director for Chambers. Valerie has represented the Criminal Bar Association as Wellbeing Director and the South Eastern Circuit on wellbeing. She remains a member of the Bar Council’s working party group on the subject.

Valerie is also an ethics and advocacy trainer for Middle Temple, and a lead facilitator for the vulnerable witness advocacy training for the South Eastern Circuit.