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Rebecca Elizabeth Chalkley KC

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Position

Rebecca Chalkley specialises in all areas of Business Crime & Fraud and Financial Services Regulation. Her areas of expertise include insider dealing, Bribery & Corruption (international and domestic), financial regulation, legal professional privilege, Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime and tax fraud (direct and indirect), fraudulent trading, financial vehicles and the full spectrum of frauds.

She is regularly instructed in matters of complexity and sensitivity, and often with an international dimension.

Rebecca is a LexisNexis Expert in Corporate Crime.

Rebecca was The Times Lawyer of the week- 21 April 2022. [Press Report]

Rebecca has also been included in The Lawyer Hot 100 2023. Please see here for more information: [The Lawyer]

Rebecca has been and is instructed in the largest Private Prosecutions and is a leader in that field. She has been ‘spotlighted’ as such in Chambers UK.

She has been instructed in various cases which resulted in Deferred Prosecutions Agreements (DPA), including what is believed to be the largest to date. She has acted in these for both individuals and companies.

She is Standing Counsel to the Department for Business and the Insolvency Service and consequently advises the department on the most complicated issues of policy and their prosecutions.

She has a vast experience of bankruptcy and liquidation and prosecutions under the Insolvency Act and Directorship Offences. She has considerable expertise in all matters connected to disclosure and legal professional privilege.

Rebecca is frequently instructed in regulatory and quasi-criminal matters on cases involving breaches of Regulatory & Professional Discipline and on behalf of regulatory bodies. This includes the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority and the General Medical Council. She is regularly instructed to defend Opticians at the General Optical Council.

She is also consistently instructed in Extradition cases. This includes cases involving the USA, the Russian Federation and Bermuda.

She is instructed by various government departments in cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). Rebecca was instructed by the Government, in the Kamoka litigation, concerning allegations of rendition and ill treatment sustained in Libya, brought against the British Government.

Rebecca has also been appointed Visiting Professor of Practice at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at the University of London and has taken up the role, for one year, from October 1, 2022.

Career

Year of call: 1999

Inn: Middle Temple

Visiting Professor of Practice at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at the University of London

Standing Counsel to the Department for Business & the Insolvency Service (2017, reappointed 2020)

SFO Prosecution Panel (A List) (2013, reappointed 2020)

Attorney General’s Regulatory List of Health & Safety Executive, Office of Rail Regulation and Environment Agency (B List) (2012, reappointed 2019)

GMC (Full List) (2015)

CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (Serious Organised Crime, Extradition and Fraud) (Gradel 3)

Attorney General’s Prosecutor (List B) (2006)

Publications:

The SFO’s independent review into the collapse of the R V Woods and Marshall trial (SERCO), The Altman Review, 21 July 2022, co-author

RIPA contributor: Judicial Studies Board (2008)

CPS Guidance Notes for the Prosecution of VAT & Excise Frauds, 2006–2007, co-author

Response to the Review by Lord Justice Auld of the Criminal Courts: General Council of the Bar & CBA, 2001, contributor

Languages

French (conversational)

Memberships

St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Law Network

South Eastern Circuit

Midlands Circuit

CBA

FLA

ARDL

PPA

FSLA

Female Fraud Forum

Education

BA MA, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (1993-1997)