Profile
Work Department
Crime; Civil
Position
Kat Shields defends and prosecutes in the Crown Court. She deals with serious general crime and financial crime. She is a Grade 4 Crown Prosecutor, sits on a number of CPS Specialist Panels including for Fraud.
Kat also practises in employment law.
Career
Pegasus Scholar 2023 (India)
Completed pupillage in 2018; member of 7BR since then.
From 2017 to 2019 Kat was part of a research team producing the Lexis Nexis monthly updates to Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. Before becoming a barrister, she was a secondary school English teacher with the “Teach First” charity.
Languages
Fluent French
Memberships
- Midland Circuit
- CBA
- ELA
- YFLA
Education
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (BA Law & Law Studies in Europe (France), 2013), PGCE English (2014), BPTC University of Law (2016)
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