Heather Oliver

Practice Areas

Heather specialises in criminal defence, professional discipline cases, inquests and licensing law.

She has successfully represented clients accused of a wide spectrum of criminal offences. This includes a range of fraudulent offending (money laundering, fraud, forgery, bribery and corruption, theft) in her own right and as a led junior, in addition to various matters concerning the proceeds of crime. She has considerable experience representing those accused of sexual misconduct (rape, sexual assault, historic child sex offences, exposure/outraging public decency, voyeurism), and has developed particular expertise in defending cases of making/possessing indecent images of children. Her criminal practice also encompasses offences of serious violence, in particular in a domestic context, as well as matters relating to stalking, harassment and coercive and controlling behaviour. She has successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) on a number of occasions, including most recently in Hackett [2019] EWCA Crim 983.

Heather has a particular specialism in representing police officers, both in criminal trials and professional misconduct hearings throughout the country. She has also represented officers at numerous inquests across London.

Career

Career: Oxford (Univ.) (1st class, BA Hons), City (GDL, Distinction), Call 2010.