Red Lion Chambers

Rebecca’s practice is cross-border and cross-discipline. She specialises in all areas of corporate crime and corporate wrongdoing and financial, environmental, and professional regulation. She both defends and prosecutes.

The Directories list her as a leader in financial crime, business & regulatory crime (including global investigations), fraud and Environmental Regulation.

She advises and acts on behalf of corporates, high net worth individuals, in-house and City solicitors in areas such as compliance, Insolvency, corporate governance, business investigations, dispute resolution, fraud, Restraint, Freezing Orders, Norwich Pharmacal Orders, and private prosecutions.

Rebecca has been and is instructed in the largest Private Prosecution before the courts and is recognised as a leader in that field. She has been ‘spotlighted’ as such in Chambers UK.

She has been instructed in various cases which resulted in Deferred Prosecutions Agreements (DPA), including that obtained against Rolls Royce PLC.

She is described in the directories as “the Queen of Disclosure”. In July 2022 she conducted and co-authored with Brian Altman KC the SFO’s independent review into the collapse of the R V Woods and Marshall trial (SERCO), The Altman Review. She has vast experience with regards to Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) and regularly advises on such matters.

She was until her appointment as King’s Counsel, Standing Counsel to the Department for Business and the Insolvency Service and consequently advised that department on their most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions. She has a vast experience of matters relating to Insolvency and Bankruptcy, as well as Director’s Disqualification and matters under the Companies Act. She regularly advises and acts for individuals and companies in such matters.

Rebecca is frequently instructed in regulatory and quasi-criminal matters on cases involving breaches of Regulatory & Professional Discipline and on behalf of and against regulatory bodies. This includes the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority, the General Medical Council, and the General Optical Council.

She is regularly instructed in Extradition cases. This includes cases involving the USA, the Russian Federation and Bermuda.

She has been instructed by various government departments, including in cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). Rebecca was instructed by the Government, in the Kamoka litigation, concerning allegations of rendition and ill treatment sustained in Libya, brought against the British Government.

Year of call: 1999

Inn: Middle Temple

Appointed as a member of the LexisNexis Corporate Crime Consulting Editorial (2022) Visiting Professor of Practice at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at the University of London Standing Counsel to the Department for Business & the Insolvency Service (2017, reappointed 2020) SFO Prosecution Panel (A List) (2013, reappointed 2020) Attorney General’s Regulatory List of Health & Safety Executive, Office of Rail Regulation and Environment Agency (B List) (2012, reappointed 2019) GMC (Full List) (2015) CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (Serious Organised Crime, Extradition and Fraud) (Gradel 3) Attorney General’s Prosecutor (List B) (2006)

French (conversational)

St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Law Network

South Eastern Circuit

Midlands Circuit

CBA

FLA

ARDL

PPA

FSLA

Female Fraud Forum

BA MA, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (1993-1997)