7BR

Crime; Civil

Kat Shields defends and prosecutes in the Crown Court. She deals with serious general crime and financial crime. She is a Grade 4 Crown Prosecutor, sits on a number of CPS Specialist Panels including for Fraud.

Kat also practises in employment law.

Pegasus Scholar 2023 (India)

Completed pupillage in 2018; member of 7BR since then.

From 2017 to 2019 Kat was part of a research team producing the Lexis Nexis monthly updates to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. Before becoming a barrister, she was a secondary school English teacher with the “Teach First” charity.

Fluent French

Midland Circuit CBA ELA YFLA

St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (BA Law & Law Studies in Europe (France), 2013), PGCE English (2014), BPTC University of Law (2016)