Gillian Jones KC

Winner of Financial Crime Silk of the year, Legal 500’s UK Awards 2024; short listed for 2025. Ranked in Chambers UK High Net Worth Guide 2025. Named in Top 10 list of influential Crime Lawyers by Business Today in 2023, the Hot 100 list 2021 by The Lawyer Magazine. Winner of Crime Silk of the year, Legal 500’s UK Awards 2020. Cited as a Leading Silk across Financial and Business Crime, POCA, and 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… a go-to person for those seeking pragmatic, sensible and reliable advice.”

With a high-profile practice specialising in financial crime, acting on behalf of individuals, corporates, and the prosecution, many of Gillian’s cases are well known with a global reach. She 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 is highly experienced in defending in murder/manslaughter, and misconduct in public office cases.

Appointed joint Head of Chambers in 2018.

Call 1996;

Silk 2017.

Criminal Bar Association (Secretary 2012 -2013, Treasurer 2017-2018);

Fraud Lawyers Association;

South Eastern Circuit.