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Julia Faure Walker
Work Department
Crime, extradition and professional discipline.
Position
Julia is ranked by Chambers UK and The Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in Crime.
In May 2020, she was appointed Junior Treasury Counsel by the Attorney General. Recent instructions include terrorism, murder, human trafficking, cryptocurrency fraud and bribery. See Public Prosecution section for further details.
She is on the “A-List” of specialist regulatory advocates in health & safety and environmental law. She has advised in relation to and appeared in proceedings against companies in fatal accident cases. Recent instructions include fatalities at a waste management site and within a railway depot.
In 2015, she was appointed to the counsel team of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse. She was junior counsel to the Children in Custodial Institutions and Children Outside the UK Investigations.
She has represented various interested persons in coronial proceedings, including health professionals, a regulatory body and the family of the deceased.
Career
Year of Call 2004; Lincoln’s Inn; 2 Hare Court 2006
Memberships
- Panel of Specialist Regulatory Advocates in Health & Safety and Environmental Law – List A
- Junior Treasury Counsel
- CPS Rape Panel
- CPS Special Crime Panel (level 4)
- CPS Extradition Panel (level 3)
- CPS Specialist Fraud Panel (level 4)
- CPS Counter Terrorism Panel (level 4)
- Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers
- Criminal Bar Assocation
- Fraud Lawyers Association
- Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association
- Private Prosecution Association
- Women in Criminal Law
Education
Churchill College, Cambridge (BA Social and Political Sciences 1st); City University, (post graduate Diploma in Law); London Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent); ICSL; Lord Bowen Scholarship; Lord Denning Scholarship.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Julia Faure Walker – 2 Hare Court ‘Julia is an absolutely meticulous and thorough barrister who is particularly strong at considering a case from every angle and spotting the hidden pitfalls. She is an extremely fair prosecutor who will take every point that can properly be taken. She works with unfailing courtesy and grace and is an undoubted star of the future.’
2 Hare Court, widely regarded as ‘one of the leading chambers in criminal law‘, continues to host a multitude of practitioners with considerable expertise and expertise. Oliver Glasgow KC prosecuted Jordan McSweeney, who was sentenced in December 2022 to life imprisonment with a minimum of 38 years for the brutal sexual assault and murder of Zara Aleena. In R v PD, Fiona Robertson successfully appealed, on behalf of the Attorney General, a sentence of three years imprisonment for sexual assault, assault by penetration and common assault – she submitted that full regard had not been paid in the first instance to the psychological harm inflicted upon the victim as well as that the judge had displayed outdated views on a husband’s entitlement to sex within a marriage and had thereby erred in mitigating the offence for this reason, and the sentence was upgraded to nine years. Acting as a sole junior, Julia Faure Walker prosecuted an individual, who was nineteen at the time, who was convicted of posting ISIS propaganda on Instagram. David Whittaker KC is representing a man bringing a private prosecution against his own son, who he alleges blackmailed him for £500,000.