New Park Court Chambers

Crime, Regulatory

Chloe Hudson’s practice encompasses criminal and regulatory work. Her particular areas of specialism are cases with a medical aspect and sexual offences.

She has been instructed by the General Medical Council to appear at Fitness to Practise Hearings for many years, giving her substantial specialist knowledge to bring to criminal work with a medical element and involving expert witnesses. She undertakes drafting and advisory work in all areas of her practice and is a popular choice of junior and enjoys a significant amount of led work.

In February and March 2021, leading Ashleigh Metcalfe, Chloe Hudson prosecuted James Macken for the murder of Daniel Jeffries. The Defendant was found guilty after a three week trial and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum period of 16 years.

Led by Nicholas Lumley KC, Chloe was a finalist in the Dennis Hoban Award for Crime Investigation awarded by the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police for their work on Operation Panelmill, the investigation into the death of Tyron Charles who was shot in a shipping container on a smallholding in Denholme, Bradford in 2018 and then buried on moors near Oxenhope. James Sutcliffe was sentenced to 31 years’ imprisonment for the murder. Chief Constable John Robins, stated:

Working as a team, you showed innovation in both investigative practise and evidence presentation to ensure justice for a murder victim and his family in what was an extremely challenging enquiry.

Since 2012 Chloe has been an external lecturer to medical students at Manchester Medical School, the University of Manchester, on the law and procedure of the General Medical Council and Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service.

Crime

Chloe has a busy practice encompassing all areas of Criminal Litigation in the Crown Court. She is a Level 4 Prosecutor and is on the Crown Prosecution Service Rape and Child Sexual Abuse list of specialist prosecutors.

Crime is a significant proportion of Chloe’s practice and she regularly appears, for both the prosecution and the defence, in a range of cases dealing with serious crime including: murder, manslaughter, serious sexual assaults, drugs and violence.

Chloe has expertise in dealing with cases involving non-accidental injuries to babies and small children, particularly those with concurrent family proceedings. She recently prosecuted a so called ‘shaken baby’ case involving the leading experts in this field of medicine being led by Dafydd Enoch KC.

• R v Saqlain Ali and others (2026): Led by Geraldine Kelly KC, secured the only acquittal in a 7-handed murder, the lay client being found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter. Seven Defendants were charged with murder following a large-scale incident of disorder at an address in Dewsbury Moor. The Defendants then travelled in two cars to Crow Nest Park where the prosecution alleged an ongoing and heated feud continued. This culminated in what was described by the prosecution as a pursuit of the deceased, ending in a fatal knife fight. The case was complicated by CCTV that captured the killing and the complex family dynamics between the deceased and the Defendants.
• R v Hanzel Scott (2025): Prosecuting a Defendant charged with importing kilos of class A drugs. Subsequently prosecuted the Defendant for rape of two 15 year girls, including one who had been kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
• R v Michniewicz, Michniewicz, Seretny and Seretny (2025) : Operation Laggened – Successful prosecution of 4 Defendants for the human trafficking of Polish women into the UK to work as prostitutes. Multiple applications to adduce the evidence of the women as hearsay was successfully made. Drafted International Letters of Request to the Polish authorities (police, judiciary) to enable the women to give evidence remotely to this jurisdiction.
• R v Bardia Shojaeifard (2025): Operation Poplincard – Representing 14 year old Defendant convicted of murdering another school child. The complexities of the case involved representing a child who had learning difficulties, Asperger’s syndrome and autism.

Regulatory

Chloe prosecutes doctors on behalf of the General Medical Council before the Fitness to Practise Tribunals of the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service. The hearings cover all aspects of professional misconduct by doctors, including deficient professional performance and often involve extremely sensitive subject matter. She has worked on many cases that have received national coverage.

• GMC v Dr Dharmapragasam Inthiraraj (2024): Prosecuted a GP who targeted women from the Tamil community in London and under the guise of legitimate medical procedure conducted sexually motivated intimate examinations. Involved the calling of witnesses from foreign jurisdictions that did not have reciprocal agreements in place.
• Police Standards Authority v PC Suleman (2025): Defence of an officer charged with using excessive physical force on a 13-year-old girl in care. Arguments concerning the interpretation of the physical handling of children guidance.
• Police Standards Authority v PC Luke Riddett, PC Tom Harrison (2025): Representing two officers in a prosecution of 8 officers for sharing photographs from death scenes and discriminatory messages on a WhatsApp group.
• GMC v Mr James Gilbert (2025): Represented the GMC at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal, in which Dr James Gilbert received a suspension for serious misconduct by sexually harassing four colleagues. The case has received wide national media coverage, including the BBC, ITV, Sky and The Guardian.

Legal Assessor to the General Optical Council Legal Assessor to the ACCA (accountants’ regulator) Finalist in the 2020 West Yorkshire Police Denis Hoban Award for Crime Investigation CPS Level 4 Prosecutor RASSO GMC Panel Harehills & Chapeltown Law Centre Management Committee Chairman (2011-2014) Pegasus Scholar, internship at the Crown Law Office, Wellington, New Zealand (Inner Temple, 2006) Lord Haldane Scholarship, Hardwicke Entrance Award (Lincoln's Inn, 2002)