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Julia Faure Walker

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Work Department

Crime, extradition and professional discipline.

Position

Julia is ranked by Chambers UK and The Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in Crime.

In May 2020, she was appointed Junior Treasury Counsel by the Attorney General.  Recent instructions include terrorism, murder, human trafficking, cryptocurrency fraud and bribery.  See Public Prosecution section for further details.

She is on the “A-List” of specialist regulatory advocates in health & safety and environmental law.   She has advised in relation to and appeared in proceedings against companies in fatal accident cases.   Recent instructions include fatalities at a waste management site and within a railway depot.

In 2015, she was appointed to the counsel team of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse.  She was junior counsel to the Children in Custodial Institutions and Children Outside the UK Investigations.

She has represented various interested persons in coronial proceedings, including health professionals, a regulatory body and the family of the deceased.

Career

Year of Call 2004; Lincoln’s Inn; 2 Hare Court 2006

Memberships

• Panel of Specialist Regulatory Advocates in Health & Safety and Environmental Law – List A
• Junior Treasury Counsel
• CPS Rape Panel
• CPS Special Crime Panel (level 4)
• CPS Extradition Panel (level 3)
• CPS Specialist Fraud Panel (level 4)
• CPS Counter Terrorism Panel (level 4)
• Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers
• Criminal Bar Assocation
• Fraud Lawyers Association
• Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association
• Private Prosecution Association
• Women in Criminal Law

Education

Churchill College, Cambridge (BA Social and Political Sciences 1st); City University, (post graduate Diploma in Law); London Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent); ICSL; Lord Bowen Scholarship; Lord Denning Scholarship.