Katherine acts on behalf of both the prosecution and defence in the full range of criminal matters. She is a Grade 1 CPS advocate and regularly prosecutes on behalf of the CPS in the Crown Court. In her defence work, Katherine has experience of defending those charged with, inter alia, driving offences, burglary, fraud and drugs supply. Katherine has particular experience in the prosecution and defence of financial crimes and related confiscation proceedings. During pupillage, Katherine assisted with the defence of a head salesman accused of fraud relating to the mis-selling of HGV driver training (prosecuted by trading standards) and the trial preparation of the largest collective investment ‘land banking’ scheme prosecuted by the Financial Conduct Authority to date. More recently, Katherine acted as led junior for the Crown in the successful prosecution of a £240,000 fraud. She is currently instructed as led junior for the Crown in a complex money laundering case at the Central Criminal Court (involving expert evidence on the Hawala banking system). When not in court, Katherine is instructed as disclosure counsel to the SFO in the preliminary stages of a high-profile investigation.

CHS; GDST; Queen Mary University London (2010 LLB Law (first class)); 2011 BPTC (VC).