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About
Provided by Gillian Jones KC
Practice Areas
Listed in the Hot 100 list 2021 by The Lawyer Magazine. Winner of Crime Silk of the year, Legal 500’s UK awards 2020 and cited as a Leading
Silk across financial crime, business and regulatory crime (including global investigations), as well as General Crime by Chambers UK, Legal 500
and Who’s Who Legal. Gillian is described as a ‘brilliant’ practitioner who “is fabulous and absolutely faultless... solicitors appreciate her quality
of advocacy before juries and her adaptability. She is an extremely bright and extremely hard-working …assiduous, quick-thinking, formidable silk
who is able to navigate the most complex cases and get to the heart of the matter almost instantly. She is a go-to person for those seeking
pragmatic, sensible and reliable advice.” With a high-profile practice specialising in financial and corporate crime, acting on behalf of individuals,
corporates, and the prosecution, many of Gillian’s cases are well known with a global reach. She also advises companies on compliance issues,
internal investigations, and strategically following investigations by the SFO, FCA and regulatory bodies. Gillian is noted for her significant expertise
in Private Prosecutions. Gillian also has considerable experience defending in murder/manslaughter, misconduct in public office (including deaths
in custody), death by dangerous driving and serious sexual offences with specialist expertise in trials involving vulnerable witnesses. Gillian was
appointed joint Head of Chambers in 2018.
Career
Call 1996; Silk 2017.
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association (Secretary 2012 -2013, Treasurer 2017-2018); Fraud Lawyers Association; South Eastern Circuit.