Ms Alexandra Healy KC > Foundry Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
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Ms Alexandra Healy KC
Work Department
Head of Chambers
Silk
Position
She both defends and prosecutes. She is ranked in Band 1 as a leading silk in Chambers and Partners 2019 in relation to crime and financial crime and also as a Band 1 Leading Silk in the Chambers and Partners High Net Worth 2019 Directory. She has acted on behalf of a senior Barclays banker in relation to the LIBOR investigation, in respect of whom the SFO recently decided to take no further action. She recently successfully prosecuted two police officers for misconduct in public office, in relation to their failure to investigate child abuse offences.
She successfully prosecuted a six-handed fraud involving football apprenticeship training on behalf of the SFO. She is also secured a successful result on behalf of the principal defendant in a 5 month, twelve-handed trial alleging conspiracy to defraud brought by Southampton City Council. She has advised private companies and prosecuting authorities in relation to Bribery Act offences. She also advises private organisations on issues relating to employee fraud.
She successfully defended the Sun’s Whitehall editor, Clodagh Hartley, against an allegation of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. She has defended an SFO prosecution involving £160 million banking fraud, R v Alexander, and successfully defended a bank manager against an allegation to commit corruption, prosecuted as part of a major fraud that led to the collapse of Willmetts Solicitors, R v Entwistle and others. She has had further success defending allegations of insider dealing in R v Sanders and others (involving the spread-betting firm Blue Index) and successfully defended one of the defendants in Operation Inertia, a £100 million MTIC contra trading case.
She has prosecuted a number of murder trials and has considerable experience in dealing with sensitive sexual offence cases including involving vulnerable witnesses. She has experience cross-examining autistic witnesses and carrying out cross-examination through an intermediary.
Other successful prosecutions include a multi-jurisdictional boiler-room fraud, involving Regulation S shares and carbon credits, R v MacDonald and Downes, which featured in the TV documentary ‘Fraud Squad’; a fraud involving the Land Registry and Probate Division; the prosecution of a dentist accused of defrauding the NHS and a series of frauds on various charities.
Career
Recorder of the Crown Court (2010)
QC list for SFO prosecution Panel
Co-Chair Bar Council Remuneration Committee (2012 – 2018)
Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association (2007 – 2008)
Director of the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund (2010 – 2019)
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers Association
Education
MA Cantab (Trinity Hall)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Alexandra Healy KC – Foundry Chambers ‘Incredibly hard-working. Always very well-informed about all aspects of her cases. Willing to take difficult points, but has excellent judgement about when to do so. Always has the ear of the judge.’
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Alexandra Healy KC – Foundry Chambers ‘Alexandra is technically excellent, dynamic and client friendly. She is excellent both as an advisory silk and as an advocate and is decisive, brave, intelligent and wise.’
London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Alexandra Healy KC – Foundry Chambers ‘Alexandra has immense authority in court with the judge, combined with an easy charming manner which juries like. She is a first-class advocate with an amazing recall for detail.’