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Aimee Riese
Position
Aimee provides advice and representation in criminal and public law cases.
She has appeared in cases involving serious violence (violent disorder, offensive weapons, “acid attacks”, and grievous bodily harm), fraud, sex, drugs, and proceeds of crime. She has particular interest in representing vulnerable and young people, including experience with expert reports, intermediaries, ground rules hearings and video-linked cross examination.
Aimee also has a practice in inquiries and inquests. She is currently First Junior to Counsel to the Chair of the Dame Linda Dobbs Review, the review is considering whether issues in relation to HBOS Reading were investigated and appropriately reported by Lloyds Banking Group. Aimee was also instructed in the Undercover Policing Inquiry as part of the counsel team to the Inquiry. She was junior counsel to the Inquest Touching Upon the Death of Ellie Butler, led by Adam Wiseman QC. She is regularly instructed by government departments in advisory matters, including on matters of human rights law.
Aimee has a strong academic background having completed an LLM in Human Rights Law, awarded with distinction. She specialised in the intersect between human rights and national security, criminal process and prison law. Prior to pupillage, Aimee was a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. She carried out work for a number of leading NGOs both in the UK and internationally.
Aimee has completed the Bar Council “Advocacy and the Vulnerable Training Programme” and has security vetting to “SC” level.
Recent notable work
First Junior to Counsel to the Chair of the Dobbs Review considering whether issues relating to HBOS Reading were investigated and appropriately reported to authorities following Lloyds Banking Group’s acquisition of HBOS (ongoing)
Junior counsel to the Inquest Touching Upon the Death of Ellie Butler
Co-authored submissions for the International Criminal Court on behalf of Bangladeshi NGOs in relation to the Rohingya crisis
Currently instructed in criminal matters including violence and dishonesty offences, including serious youth matters (ongoing)
Advising a central government department on issues relating to Brexit and human rights (ongoing)
Career
SFO C Panel (2020-2024)
CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 2)
Attorney General’s Civil Panel (GLD), Junior Juniors Scheme
Publications:
Chapters in books
Young, Corker and Summers, Chapter 4 ‘Miscellaneous Abuse’ and Chapter 6 ‘Entrapment’, Abuse of Process, Bloomsbury, 2022, co-author
Peter Feldschriber, Chapter 9 ‘Liability in Criminal Law’, The Law and Regulation of Medicines and Medical Devices, OUP, 2021, co-author
Chapter 8 ‘Witnesses’ and Chapter 19 ‘Offences Against the Person’, Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice, Sweet and Maxwell, 2018, assisted in editing chapters
Articles
‘Is the law on corporate criminal liability about to take a new turn?’, Law Gazette, co-author. RPC report on the topical issue of whether it is now time for a failure to prevent fraud offence to be introduced
Memberships
Bar Human Rights Committee
CBA
Young Legal Aid Lawyers
Young Fraud Lawyers Association
Education
LLM in Human Rights Law, UCL: Distinction
BPTC, City Law School
GDL, University of Law
BSc International Relations and History, London School of Economics and Political Science