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Lisa Roberts KC

Work Department

Business Crime & Financial Regulation
Criminal Law
Inquests
Mediation
Professional Discipline
Regulatory

Position

Leader of the Northern Circuit.

Lisa Roberts QC specialises in regulatory law, inquests & inquiries and private client criminal defence. She took silk in 2015 and is consistently ranked in Legal directories, as a leading silk in no fewer than three categories:

• Health and Safety (North and North East Bar)
• Professional Discipline
• Crime (Northern Bar)

Lisa Roberts QC is regarded as a first-class, specialist silk in Health and Safety and Environmental Law and is instructed in some of the country’s leading cases.

She has a strong reputation for guarding the interests of her clients in Inquests and Inquiries and is currently representing the North West Ambulance Service in the Manchester Arena Inquiry.  She also acts on behalf of police officers, large companies and public bodies in inquests and inquiries. She was involved in the Hillsborough Inquests, representing a senior police officer.

Lisa is regularly instructed to act on behalf of Federated and senior ranking police officers in criminal matters and Police Misconduct (disciplinary) hearings.

Lisa also accepts privately-funded instructions on behalf of individuals facing criminal offences. Recently she has dealt with a number of high profile footballing legends.

Lisa regularly presents seminars and webinars on crime, regulatory and trading standards’ law to defence solicitors, corporate clients and industry regulators.

In recent years Lisa has acted on behalf of utility companies who are facing prosecution by the regulators. She also carries out private prosecutions on behalf of the utility companies. Lisa was instructed by United Utilities to represent them throughout the DWI prosecution which followed the cryptosporidium event of the summer of 2015.

Lisa earned a formidable reputation prosecuting and defending regulatory offences and serious crime. Regularly instructed by the Major Incident Teams of the North West and the Complex Case Unit of the CPS, Lisa also defended in many of the region’s most high-profile cases.

She has built on that solid background in the criminal courts and focused in more recent years on Inquest & Inquiry work, Regulatory work & Professional Discipline.

Lisa’s practice consists of the following:

Regulatory Law

• Health and Safety
• Environmental
• Drinking Water
• Police Federation – criminal and disciplinary
• Trading Standards
• Medical Profession – criminal and GMC (defence)

Career

Called 1993; Silk 2015; Category 4 prosecutor; Attorney General’s List ‘A’.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association; Northern Circuit; Health and Safety Lawyers Association; Lincoln’s Inn (scholar).

Education

St Catherine’s College, Oxford (BA English Hons); University of Huddersfield (CPE); Inns of Court School of Law.

Leisure

Tennis, eating out, going to concerts.