Anna Keighley

Anna Keighley’s core practice is recovery of the proceeds of crime arising out of financial and other serious, organised, crime. Her practice has led to international instructions, advisory work, niche applications and legal argument in the criminal and civil courts, the High Court and Court of Appeal.

Anna represents prosecutors, foreign governments, defendants, receivers and third-parties in proceeds of crime litigation. She is specialist appointed Counsel in this field for the CPS and SFO. She is regularly instructed by them and others as specialist counsel in restraint, confiscation, variations, enforcement and receivership proceedings, under PoCA 2002, CJA 1988 and DTA 1994; this includes in any connected judicial review proceedings and appeals. Between 2015 and 2020, Anna was also a Financial Ombudsman deciding Banking and Credit cases, in particular those which featured disputed transactions and fraud. This has lent itself well to Anna’s wider practice of allegations of financial wrong-doing. She has lectured here and overseas on the area of proceeds of crime, provides insight to peers and governmental departments, and is a contributing author to ‘Mitchell Taylor and Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime’ (Sweet & Maxwell).