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About
Provided by Alexandra Healy KC
Practice Areas
Crime
Financial Crime
Career
Alexandra has considerable experience in complex fraud, insider dealing and corruption cases as well as murder and serious gang violence.
She led the prosecution of Glencore in the first corporate conviction for substantive Bribery offences and in 2024 went on to be instructed in the high-profile SFO prosecution of a number of former Glencore employees. She was also instructed to prosecute a former Nigerian Oil Minister for corruption and advises a number of clients in relation to investigations into bribery and insider dealing. She was instructed on behalf of a senior bank official in the LIBOR lowballing investigation which was discontinued by the SFO. She successfully defended Clodagh Hartley, the Sun Whitehall editor, in the first Operation Elveden case in which a journalist was acquitted.
Alexandra has both defended and prosecuted in murder and serious gang related violent crime. She successfully prosecuted a serving police officer for manslaughter in relation to the death of Dalian Atkinson. She successfully prosecuted police officers for misconduct in public office, in relation to their failure to investigate allegations of child abuse.
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers Association
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Head of Chambers Alexandra Healy KC both prosecutes and defends the most complex criminal and fraud cases. She regularly handles challenging murder, sexual offences and child abuse cases. Healy has further extensive experience handling serious drugs and arson cases.
Alexandra Healy KC displays excellent communication and presentation skills, and is a highly confident performer. She is experienced in prosecution and defence cases involving suspected fraud relating to bribery of public officials, as well as company insolvency and insider trading. Her wide-ranging fraud practice also sees her defending individuals in high-value mortgage and banking fraud and trading standards matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She does financial crime so superbly and is engaging and a wonderful advocate."
"Alexandra Healy KC is a fantastic advocate. She is very good in front of a judge and jury. Her manner is gently persuasive without being patronising."
"Alexandra is simply one of the very best fraud and complex crime practitioners at the Bar. She is an absolute star with great all-round ability and is a joy to work with."
"She has a command of the law which is exceptional and is a fair and approachable prosecutor. Her advocacy skills are rightly renowned and her written and oral advocacy skills are top-notch."
"She is tenacious in court, precise in how she prepares a case and a very good jury advocate."
"She is incredibly jury friendly and able to distil and deploy complex legal principles and facts in a palatable form."
"She does financial crime so superbly and is engaging and a wonderful advocate."
"Alexandra Healy KC is a fantastic advocate. She is very good in front of a judge and jury. Her manner is gently persuasive without being patronising."
"Alexandra is simply one of the very best fraud and complex crime practitioners at the Bar. She is an absolute star with great all-round ability and is a joy to work with."
"She has a command of the law which is exceptional and is a fair and approachable prosecutor. Her advocacy skills are rightly renowned and her written and oral advocacy skills are top-notch."
"She is tenacious in court, precise in how she prepares a case and a very good jury advocate."
"She is incredibly jury friendly and able to distil and deploy complex legal principles and facts in a palatable form."
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