7 Harrington Street

Areas of Practice

Miss Oakdene joins chambers after being called to the Bar in July 2018.

Prior to being called to the Bar Miss Oakdene was a Higher Court Advocate and Assisitant Solicitor in  a Liverpool firm.  As a Higher Cout Advocate Rachel predominatly prepared and dealt with Crown Court Cases.

Rachel has conducted many jury trials and appeared before the Court of Appeal Criminal Division on a number of occasions.

Practice Areas

Crime

• Defence
• Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
• Assault, Robbery and other Violent Crime
• Burglary and theft
• Confiscation (including Proceeds of Crime and Asset Forfeiture)
• Drug Trafficking Offences
• Firearms
• Fraud and Money Laundering
• Murder/Manslaughter
• Sexual Offences
• Trading Standards Offences

Miss Oakdene was previously a Sessional Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University where she dealt with evening tutorials on the LPC course in the area of criminal law and practice/procedure. She was also an Assessor for the Advocacy Examination.