Kate Bex

Cited byThe Legal 500 and Chambers UK as a leading junior, Kate is a highly regarded criminal advocate who both defends and prosecutes. She specialises in serious and complex crime especially offences of murder and non fatal violence.

Increasingly instructed as leading counsel, her recent cases include the race-fixing trial at the CCC which resulted in dismissal, and subsequent regulatory proceedings before the British Horseracing Authority which concluded with the first Goodyear indication outside a criminal court. Kate was leading counsel for the defence in an AIM flotation scheme (designated a serious and complex fraud, believed to be the first prosecution under the s25 FSMA 2000), and leading counsel for the prosecution against a silk and junior, successfully arguing for the admission of a previous acquittal following R v Z and the CJA 2003.

Kate is also an accredited mediator for alternative dispute resolution of civil and commercial disputes and is an associate member of ADR Chambers. Kate's experience of the mediation process makes her perfectly placed to act as a mediation advocate in civil asset recovery proceedings brought by SOCA.

She also undertakes professional disciplinary work, and in particular appears regularly before disciplinary panels and the High Court in General Medical Council matters. Kate also has experience of appearing before a number of other regulators, including the GSCC, and sits as a Legal Assessor for the Health Professions Council. She also has experience of coroners' inquests.

Kate is authorised to accept instructions from members of the public in certain circumstances.  She also accepts instructions from in-house lawyers, licensed access clients, and authorised professionals.  More information on how to instruct Kate directly can be found here.

Memberships:

Criminal Bar Association

Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers

Standing Counsel of Mediation Advocates (SCMA)