YEAR OF CALL 2016

Amy has a busy criminal practice incorporating both prosecution and defence work. She is regularly instructed to appear as junior alone and as a led junior in cases involving a wide range of offences, including financial crime, serious violence, drug-dealing and organised crime. She has experience appearing as junior alone in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Amy specialises in proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, acting for both the prosecution and the defence in hearings at all stages. She has a thorough knowledge of the confiscation, restraint and enforcement regimes and is available to advise on their application from the pre-charge stage through to post-conviction.

She has an in-depth understanding of forensic scientific evidence (e.g. DNA), analysis of telephone data and financial material, and other areas of expert evidence. Amy has prosecuted and defended in cases where defendants have had serious mental health difficulties, and consequently has experience in issues of fitness to plead, psychiatric assessments, and mental health disposals. She also has considerable experience of the modern slavery regime, having appeared in trials involving modern slavery and human trafficking charges and the defence under s.45 of the Modern Slavery Act.

Amy has advised on evidence review, disclosure and Legal Professional Privilege in large-scale investigations, including in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the Post Office subpostmaster appeals and Horizon Inquiry. She has significant experience acting as independent counsel in operations led by the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office, and HMRC.

Amy has conducted advocacy on behalf of the Insolvency Service and the Metropolitan Police. She has appeared for Requested Persons in contested extradition proceedings. Amy also has experience in the regulatory field, including in the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber).