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Provided by Jessica Tate
Crime
Financial Crime
Jessica Tate’s practice encompasses wide-ranging white-collar crime, including high-value/large-scale company fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions and corruption. She regularly prosecutes for the Insolvency Services, Companies House and CPS and acts in private prosecutions of high-value complex cases often involving tensions between ongoing civil and criminal proceedings.
She is instructed in cases involving restraint, forfeiture and confiscation, advising on discharging or varying restraint orders at early stages in proceedings. She has acted in cases flowing from ‘Operation Car Wash’, the biggest corruption scandal in Latin American history.
Many of her cases involve multiple jurisdictions, including Latin and Central America, USA, Switzerland and Africa, requiring a ‘cross-border’ understanding of global asset tracing and markets, particularly in countries that predominantly remain ‘cash’ economies.
She regularly acts for clients subjected to politically motivated prosecutions, advising on how the overlap between political bias or regime change can affect a decision to prosecute, or how new legislation can adversely affect an individual’s personal or business interests.
Further specialises in the niche area of cryptocurrency: cases where the prosecution has misunderstood how those currencies operate and how market fluctuations resulting in clients’ assets being unfairly restrained and incorrect allegations of criminality charged against them.
Jessica has experience in the use of multiple Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and International Letters of Request (ILORs) having given a talk at a UN conference on the subject.
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Young Fraud Lawyers Association
The Lord Denning Society
Criminal Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit
Provided by Chambers
Jessica Tate is a criminal barrister experienced in the handling of complex cases involving allegations of fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption. Her cases regularly involve multiple jurisdictions.
Provided by Chambers
She has an impressive ability to master detail and to pick out the tiny details.
Jessica is an incredibly hard worker with great judgement and is very good on her feet. She has gravitas beyond her call. Judges like her and she has a nice way with clients. She ticks all the boxes.
She is a hard-working junior and a compelling advocate. She supports her leaders and is a fine advocate in her own right.
Jessica is personable with clients and knows her subject area really well and she is a safe pair of hands.
She has an impressive ability to master detail and to pick out the tiny details.
Jessica is an incredibly hard worker with great judgement and is very good on her feet. She has gravitas beyond her call. Judges like her and she has a nice way with clients. She ticks all the boxes.
She is a hard-working junior and a compelling advocate. She supports her leaders and is a fine advocate in her own right.
Jessica is personable with clients and knows her subject area really well and she is a safe pair of hands.
