Miss Carina Clare > 23ES > London, England > Barrister Profile
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Miss Carina Clare
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Carina Clare is instructed to defend and prosecute a broad variety of criminal offences, including murders, terrorism, rapes, drugs, firearms and financial crime. She has a busy and varied practice and is regularly instructed in the most complex and long-running trials. She has appeared in several murder trials at the Old Bailey and elsewhere.
Carina has experience with EncroChat trials relating to serious organised drugs and firearms offences.
She is currently instructed in matters ranging from bribery, rape and terrorism.
Notably, Carina has considerable experience working off-shore in the Cayman Islands, where she worked as a defence attorney for three years. She is well versed in bribery and corruption matters. She was instructed to investigate alleged Government corruption in the Caribbean and represented the Money Laundering Reporting Officers of one of the largest multinational law firms in the Cayman Islands for alleged breaches of their obligations.
She has worked on SFO investigations and provides advice to corporates on any issues relating to criminal litigation and compliance.
Carina is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, accredited by the ACFE.
She acts on behalf of local authorities in environmental, health and safety and trading standards.
Before joining chambers, she was employed at several reputable criminal defence solicitors’ firms, where she was police station accredited. Notably, she assisted in the POCA proceedings following Britain’s largest mortgage fraud, and in the preparation of the successful defence in R v Jacobs (2014 trial for the 1985 murder).