| Year of call | 1992 |
| Inn | Inner Temple |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
| Memberships | Liberty Amnesty International Medecins sans Frontieres |
| Languages | French |
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Cited in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners UK Guide 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 in July 2009 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 regulatory work, and in particular is instructed by the GMC to appear at the Adjudication stage and in the High Court.
Notable Cases
| Case name | R v Aitcheson & Aitcheson | Case name | R v Seagar and 9 others |
| Appearance | Prosecution | Appearance | Leading counsel for the prosecution |
| Category | Firearms | Category | Serious violence |
| Detail | Importation and supply of firearms to further crime by rival south London gangs. Involved new weapon not seen by NABIS or FSS before and required expert evidence on interpretation of s5 Firearms Act to set precedent for future cases. | Detail | Trial of 10 defendants in prearranged fight using knives. |
| Case name | R v Moulden | Case name | R v Lynch |
| Appearance | Defence | Appearance | Defence (led by QC) |
| Category | Confiscation | Category | Fraud |
| Detail | Reported case. Prosecution appeal to the Court of Appeal in attempt to confiscate an additional £500,000 in realisable assets. Defence successfully argue point of potential widespread application. | Detail | Billed by many as the criminal trial of 2007, and the first prosecution of corruption within the ‘Sport of Kings’ this fraud involved allegations of race fixing by the champion jockey (Kieran Fallon) and five others. |