Hickman & Rose

Partner. Serious and General Crime.

Kate Goold is a criminal defence and extradition expert who represents individual clients facing the most serious and potentially life-changing criminal allegations.

Kate acts across the full range of charges and is often instructed by high profile and HNW individuals for whom maintaining a good public reputation is everything.

She is particularly regarded for her sensitivity, tactical skill and attention to detail. She understands the pressures that press attention can place on an under-fire individual and is expert at navigating clients through the media storm.

Kate is particularly well known for representing university students facing misconduct-related allegations with criminal implications. She is skilled in acting for vulnerable clients and regularly advises on assisted dying, and cases that interact with the family courts and social services interventions.

Kate regularly draws on the Human Rights Act to ensure clients’ rights are protected. She is an expert on police powers, production orders, search and seizure, pre-charge bail and suspect anonymity: subjects on which she has provided expert evidence to the UK Parliament.

After starting her post-qualification career at Hickman & Rose, Kate spent 25 years at another leading London law firm before rejoining Hickman & Rose in 2025.

Kate is a member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association; Defence Extradition Lawyers’ Forum; Women in Criminal Law, and Liberty.