Charlotte Oliver > Chambers of David Josse KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of David Josse KC
5 St Andrews Hill
LONDON
EC4V 5BZ
England
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Work Department

Charlotte is a criminal barrister with a successful practice both prosecuting and defending.

Position

Charlotte is a criminal barrister who accepts instructions to prosecute and defend.

Instructing Solicitors have said:

“Both myself and the client are extremely impressed and happy with the result – a case which was not easy to win but with the right tactics and representation there was always hope.”

Career

  • Charlotte was called to the bar in 2017.
  • ​CPS General Crime Advocate Panel: Level 3.
  • ADR-OCR Civil and Commercial Mediator.
  • Inner Temple Pupillage Award (2018).

Criminal Defence

Charlotte is regularly instructed to defend in single and multi-handed cases involving serious violence, drug supply, weapons, and importation offences.

Charlotte has particular experience in representing youth clients with complex mental health difficulties. She completed the Vulnerable Witness Training in 2018.

Charlotte continues to accept instructions in the Magistrates’ Court; most successfully representing defendants charged with offences involving the police. She has considerable experience in representing respondents at contested applications for Stalking Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Criminal Behaviour Orders and Restoration Orders.

Criminal Prosecutions – Private & Public

Charlotte is a CPS Grade 3 prosecutor, with experience in all areas of general crime, both in the Crown Court and the Youth Court.

She was recently praised as being ‘a credit to the Bar’ by a Judge sitting at Kingston Crown Court, for the efforts she made to secure a conditional caution for a vulnerable defendant on the day of trial.

Business Crime & Financial Regulation

Charlotte accepts instructions in relation to Business Crime and Financial Crime cases.

​Charlotte was instructed as Disclosure Counsel throughout the Financial Conduct Authority’s criminal investigation into NatWest, following the laundering of hundreds of millions of pounds through the Bank. See FCA press release here

 

Memberships

  • Criminal Bar Association (CBA)
  • Women in Criminal Law (WICL)

Education

  • BSc (University of Bristol, 2015): First Class.
  • GDL (BPP University, 2016): Distinction.
  • BPTC (BPP University, 2017): Very Competent.