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Eve Macatonia
Position
Eve has a busy Family Law Practice
Career
Profile
Called to the Bar in 2005
Eve is an advocate for justice. Criminal, social and everything in between. With an eye for detail, she diligently prepares her cases and places great importance on her approachability. Understanding how any Court case can have both an immediate and long term impact on her clients and their families, Eve prides herself on her sympathetic ear. A persuasive and committed advocate, Eve has represented clients for the breadth of criminal offences.
Before coming to Chambers, Eve worked as a paralegal assisting with large cases at a London law firm and worked with extensive bundles of evidence. Cases included the well reported Jimmy Choo trial (exploring the Computer Misuse Act 1990) and an £150k fraud by a defendant working for Tower Hamlets Council. Since being in chambers Eve has defended and prosecuted across the Criminal Law spectrum, representing vulnerable youths for offences of robbery, adults for serious offences of violence, public disorder, sexual offences and aggravated burglary.
Eve has both defended and prosecuted fraud for the Department for Work and Pensions and in recent years, Eve has assisted in the prosecution of serious and complex fraud for the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office for offences of Bribery, Corruption, Conspiracy to Defraud, Concealing Criminal Property and Fraudulent Trading.
Historically, Eve has acted in Private and Public Children law proceedings, acting for mothers, fathers, grandparents and local authorities in private residence and contact disputes. After a period of Maternity Leave, Eve is now going back to her roots, using her advocacy experience to return to Family Law.
Cases of Note
R v W and others
Defended offences of racially aggravated violent disorder in a 9 handed indictment.
R v M and others
Led junior counsel defending charges of conspiracy to kidnap, possession of firearms and being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. The jury were hung and the Crown did not proceed to a retrial.
R v Oye [2013] EWCA Crim 1725 – Prosecuting appeal against conviction
Prosecuting appeal against conviction – A defendant suffering from an insane delusion that he was being attacked or threatened was not entitled to an acquittal based on self-defence. An insane person could not set the standards of reasonableness as to the degree of force used by reference to his own insanity.
R v Bray (Lawrence Keith) [2010] EWCA Crim 1991 – Appeal against sentence
The Judge’s comments, when remanding the appellant in custody pending and adjournment for a pre-sentence report, had given rise to an expectation that an immediate custodial sentence would not be imposed. Appeal Allowed.
R v Messham (James Alexander) [2009] EWCA Crim 2568– Appeal against sentence
Where the appellant had confessed his offence to the police, a further reduction in sentence should properly follow. Appeal allowed
Memberships
- Lincoln’s Inn Cholmeley Scholarship (2007)
- Criminal Bar Association
- Family Law Bar Association
Education
Qualifications
- BVC (BPP) (VC)
- LLB (Hons) (2.1) (Sussex)