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Page Nyame

Position

Page is a highly regarded junior specialising in corporate crime and public inquiries. She has a track record of resolving matters favourably for clients.

Career

Page’s recent cases include:

1. High Court King’s Bench Division [2023] – A v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and others led junior for the appellant; successful in application for permission to appeal. 

2. Central Criminal Court [2023] – Confiscation – junior alone; confiscation ordered in terms sought.

3. Portsmouth Crown Court [2023] – Defence – Confiscation and restraint – junior alone; opposing confiscation order sought for £1m benefit figure with assets of £500k under restraint. 

4. UK/US/EMEA/Japan – pre-charge investigations and advice for a multinational technology company; advising on criminal and civil enforcement action – including intellectual property (IP) protection for multijurisdictional fraud.

5. Harrow Crown Court [2023] – Defence – Affray (5 handed) and Assault Emergency Worker junior alone; successful representations and case discontinued for young Defendant. In 2021 Page marshalled District Judge Brennan at Willesden Youth Court. She has recent experience of cases involving young people in the Youth and Crown Court.

6. Woolwich Crown Court [2023] – Defence – Burglary junior alone; successful representations and case discontinued. Client subject to s.3 MHA 1983 detention; instructions in parallel Magistrates’ Court proceedings (as assigned advocate with certificate for counsel). Page is recently trained in Advocacy and the Vulnerable witness training.

7. Cambridge Magistrates’ Court [2023] – Private prosecution for the Insolvency Service on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy junior alone instructed for trial, 3 handed.

8. In her public inquiries practice, Page is currently instructed in

• Undercover Policing Inquiry for the Inquiry Legal Team, co-authoring with David Barr KC and Rebekah Hummerstone submissions on section 2 Inquiries Act 2005 and

 

• UK Covid-19 Inquiry for the Cabinet Office.

Memberships

Young Fraud Lawyers’ Association (YFLA)

Proceeds of Crime Act Lawyers’ Association (POCLA)

The Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)

 

Education

University of Cambridge – BA

Personal

Before coming to the Bar, Page interned at the US Public Defender’s Office in Las Vegas, Nevada assisting with post-conviction death row appeals.

 

Page currently sits on the board of the National Prison Arts Charity Koestler Arts. She previously served as Co-Director of Vocalise (Prison Debating Mentorship Programme) and as Trustee for the National Children’s Bureau winning the 2020 Dame Helen Alexander ‘Non-Executive Director to Watch’ Award.