2 Hare Court

Gabriele Watts acts in both defence and prosecution, with a practice covering serious crime, including violence, firearms, trafficking, drugs, and high-value business crime such as fraud, counterfeit trading, and money laundering. She is regularly instructed in complex, document-heavy Crown Court matters and also appears in public inquiries and inquests, including the Post Office Inquiry.

Internationally, she has worked with prosecutors from The Hague and former ICC judges to train state bodies in the West Balkans, and she speaks several languages. Before coming to the Bar, she worked at the Serious Fraud Office on major fraud, bribery, and corruption cases involving the FCA and overseas enforcement agencies. She writes on white-collar crime, lectures on LSE’s LLM financial crime course, and contributes to Lloyd’s Law Reports.

Called in 2019.

CPS Advocates Panel – Grade 3; Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn; Lord Denning Society; Fellow, International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators; Contributory Panel, Lloyds Law Reports.

Advanced International Advocacy Course, Keble College, University of Oxford; BPTC, City, University of London; LLM, City, University of London; LLB (Hons), London School of Economics and Political Sciences; Lord Denning Scholarship; Hardwicke Award; Princess Diana Award; Jack Petchey Award.

Bulletin of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators:

Horder and G. Watts, The UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (Issue 1, Paris, Summer 2023).

Criminal Law Review:

J. Horder and G. Watts, The Scope of Liability for Failure to Prevent Economic Crime [2021] Crim L.R. Issue 10.

Criminal Law Reform Now:

J. Horder and G. Watts, Senior Corporate Managers’ Criminal Liability for the Crimes of Employees’ or Agents’ in John Child, Jonathan Rogers and Melissa Bone (eds), Criminal Law Reform Now (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming).

The Encyclopedia of Corruption Law:

J. Horder and G.Watts, The UK Bribery Act 2010, in the Encyclopedia of Corruption Law (Edward Elgar, 2022 – forthcoming).