Jane Osborne KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 4 : Financial Crime
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About
Provided by Jane Osborne KC
Practice Areas
Jane has a leading practice in complex prosecution and defence work, particularly in the field of financial business crime. Jane is regularly instructed, both to prosecute and defend, in cases of conspiracy to defraud and to cheat the revenue, MTIC and carousel frauds, and in multi million pound money laundering investigations. She is regularly involved in Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings to secure and then recover the proceeds of such offences, often amounting to multiple millions of pounds. Jane is part of the Serious Fraud Office counsel panel. Jane also has a substantial appellate practice in the field of financial crime having appeared in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division in the recent past to argue points of law relating to Conspiracy to Cheat the Revenue indictments, the provisions of s.328 POCA and the meaning of "criminal property", the reliance on evidence obtained from covert listening devices in the context of fraud investigations, and the admissibility of expert evidence.
Career
Appointed King's Counsel 2020
Called 2000
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Private Prosecutor's Association
Fraud Lawyer's Association
Female Fraud Forum
South Eastern Circuit