Park Square Barristers

Criminal and Regulatory & Public

Crime

Ranked in The Legal 500 (2025) for Crime, Katherine Robinson is Head of the Criminal Team at PSQB.

Katherine is regularly instructed in the most serious prosecution and defence cases. She has particular expertise in Serious Organised Crime, including Terrorism, multi-defendant conspiracies and Encrochat investigations.

She is regularly briefed to prosecute and defend in homicides, both as leading and led counsel, and serious sexual cases. She is often requested to represent defendants with particular vulnerabilities or difficulties due to her ability to communicate well and develop relationships which assists in the smooth running of the cases.

She is regularly requested to provide pre-charge advice to the Complex Casework Unit in unusual cases with novel issues of law and fact.

Katherine has particular experience of money laundering and proceeds of crime proceedings, including all aspects of confiscation. She has lectured extensively on the Proceeds of Crime Act from both a prosecution and defence perspective for a variety of audiences including the Regional Assets Recovery Team and Local Authorities.

As the UK government's Criminal Justice Advisor to Somaliland, Katherine worked in the Horn of Africa on Counter Terrorism between 2015 and 2019. Since her return to practice, she is regularly contracted on international Government projects in the fields of Terrorism and Serious Organised Crime. She acts as the Senior Legal Advisor to the EU SOC project in Georgia, and has recently provided training in Kenya as a subject matter expert. Katherine is currently working part time on a criminal justice reform in the Maldives.

Regulatory & Public

Ranked Tier 2 in Crime (general & fraud) in The Legal 500 (2025)

Katherine is well-versed in matters of regulatory law, including Trading Standards and environmental matters

Katherine is regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in a range of Trading Standards, DWP and other regulatory prosecutions and is currently Leading Counsel in a multi million pound conspiracy to defraud prosecution involving three companies and their directors.

Call 2002

Appointments: Grade 4 Prosecutor

Specialist POCA Panel

Serious Fraud Office Panel

North Eastern Circuit (York Junior) Criminal Bar Association Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association

1999 Durham University, BA (Hons) English Literature & Philosophy

2000 College of Law, PgDL (Distinction)

2001 College of Law, BVC