Nominated for Crime Silk of the Year 2022, Kate Bex is a highly regarded criminal advocate who defends and prosecutes.
She specialises in Murder & Manslaughter and large scale Serious & Organised Crime.
Kate has experience of dealing with novel areas of law; she prosecuted an importation and supply of firearms by rival south London gangs involving a new weapon not seen by forensic scientists before which required expert evidence on the interpretation of s5 Firearms Act to set a precedent for future cases. Kate prosecuted the first FGM trial and successfully defended in the second. She prosecuted the first case of County Lines using Human Trafficking law, which went to the Court of Appeal twice.
Kate has been involved in cases requiring considerable sensitivity; defending a mother in the tragic killing of both of her children whilst suffering from an undiagnosed serious mental illness and defending a man accused of sexually assaulting eight women including children in a campaign lasting fifteen years.
Kate was a Steering Committee Member of the Private Prosecutors’ Association who contributed to the drafting of the Code for Private Prosecutors.
Call: 1992
Silk: 2017
Recorder (2017)
CPS HQ Specialist Fraud Panel (2013-2017)
CPS HQ Serious Crime Panel (2013-2017)
Accredited Mediator for Civil/Commercial Disputes (2007)
CPS Rape Panel (2005-2017)
Legal Assessor at the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (2000)
CBA
ARDL
PPA
HSLA
FLA
Liberty
South Eastern Circuit
BA (Hons) Law and English Literature