Charlotte Yarrow

Call: 1999

 An experienced junior counsel in general crime and serious sexual offences but with a strong track record in handling complex fraud and financial crime including money laundering, insider dealing, tax and VAT fraud, advance fee and banking fraud, both led and conducted alone.

She has a strong commercial awareness gained partly from a sabbatical in a FTSE 100 Hedge fund where she advised the company on, amongst other things money laundering provisions, the Fraud Act and Proceeds of Crime legislation and general litigation. She has a flare for handling substantial volumes of evidence and complex financial information and distilling it to the “nub of the issue”.

Charlotte also has significant experience in serious sexual cases having prosecuted several historic child abuse cases, cases of child pornography and prostitution (arising out of Operation Manzana) and defended in numerous rape cases including complex historic rape, inter–relationship rape and those involving particularly young or vulnerable witnesses and defendants.

Charlotte has successfully handled a number of kidnap, false imprisonment and blackmail cases and serious and large drug importations.

Charlotte has been instructed since pupillage in regulatory work having been Standing Counsel to 2 London Boroughs on matters of Health and Safety, Environment and Trademarks.

She has advised and acted in both criminal and civil matters in relation to Trademarks law and was in the landmark case in the Court of Appeal and House of Lords of Johnston which successfully led to the re–definition of the criminal defences under the 1994 Trade Marks Act.

 

Areas of expertise

Crime
International
Financial Crime - fraud, money laundering and confiscation
Domestic Violence