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Kate Batty

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Work Department

Criminal

Position

Kate Batty is a very experienced criminal practitioner who is frequently instructed to both prosecute and defend in serious and high profile cases.  She is a Grade 4 prosecutor and a member of the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel.  She was formerly a solicitor and, later, a partner in a large practice in Leeds before transferring to the Bar in 2011.  She has been a busy trial advocate ever since.

Kate has significant experience of conducting complex and serious cases, including homicide, serious violence, drugs and fraud conspiracies, sexual offences and regulatory crime.

She has spent a large proportion of 2017 and 2018 prosecuting in Operation Tendersea, a complex and high profile Child Sexual Exploitation case involving multiple vulnerable complainants and multiple defendants, click here for media coverage.

She is an extremely persuasive advocate and has a high success rate in trials.  Instructing solicitors praise her thorough preparation, her sound tactical approach to cases, her knowledge of the law and her excellent advocacy.

Kate also has significant experience in conducting regulatory work.  This experience commenced when she worked as a solicitor when she frequently prosecuted trading standards and environmental offences.  Since her transfer to the Bar, she has continued to conduct this type of work, both for the prosecution and defence.  Her instructing solicitors in this field commend her attention to detail and meticulous approach.

Kate is a C-List Specialist Regulatory Advocate.

Career

Call 2011 (Solicitor 2001)

Appointments:
Grade 4 Prosecutor

Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel

2019
List C of the Panel of Specialist Regulatory Advocates

Memberships

North Eastern Circuit

Education

1998
University of Northumbria, LLB (Exempting) – including LPC