Fiona Jackson’s Profile

  	
    					
			
							
									
			

		
			

            
				






Fiona Jackson practises in proceeds of crime, asset recovery and fraud work for the prosecution, defence and third parties. She has represented a wide range of prominent defence and prosecution clients, including prosecuting authorities, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Assets Recovery Agency, the former National Crime Squad, and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), as well as a variety of police forces, foreign governments and receivers, in proceeds of crime matters before the House of Lords, Court of Appeal, High Court, Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court.


Her experience ranges from hearings involving restraint, receivership, confiscation, cash seizure and asset forfeiture, to major fraud, money laundering and economic crime trials. In the area of general crime, Fiona has been instructed as counsel for the prosecution and defence in cases spanning the entire criminal spectrum from murder and violent crime, to dishonesty, burglary and firearms offences, along with medicines, drugs and mental health cases. She has been appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Prosecuting Advocates (B list), the SFO’s List of Counsel (B panel) and is a Grade 3 prosecutor on CPS London’s External Advocates Scheme.


Fiona is often instructed because of her ability to offer “cradle-to-grave” advice and representation on a case, from defending and prosecuting pre-charge restraint proceedings at the outset to dealing with confiscation issues and linked civil recovery proceedings at the conclusion of a case.


A regular lecturer on proceeds of crime issues and contributor to the leading textbook “Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime”, Fiona is an elected member of the Bar Council, the Criminal Bar Association Committee and the South Eastern Circuit Bar Mess Committee, where she was the elected Recorder of the Circuit (2006-2007) and Circuit Junior (2003). Fiona is also a committee member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers’ Association, a Vice-Chairwoman of the Association of Women Barristers, and was the Chairwoman of the 2009 Bar Conference.


Notable Cases


    

  • Serious Fraud Office v King ([2009] 1 WLR 718; [2008] 1 WLR 2634) Instructed (as led junior) for the SFO in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords appeal in a case concerning a Letter of Request by a foreign prosecutor in connection with criminal investigations/proceedings. The House of Lords held that the crown court’s jurisdiction to make a restraint and disclosure order following a request by a foreign prosecutor under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order (SI 2005 No 3181) was restricted to property located within England and Wales.
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  • R v Hussain and others (2007-2010) Prosecuting (as led junior) multi-handed trial, appeal and confiscation of international steroids and counterfeit drugs enterprise
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  •  R v Halai, Haywood, Patino and others (2006-2009) Prosecuting (as led junior) multi-handed trial, confiscation and appeals of multi-million pound global medicines counterfeiting ring.  Two separate appeals led to reported decisions of principle: the first, R v Haywood and others ([2009] 2 Cr App R (S) 62) reaffirmed sentencing principles for significant quantities of counterfeit drugs; the second, R v Patel and another (The Times, 19th November 2009), clarified that where medicinal products were intended for sale to end users outside the European Community, Sch. 3(1) of the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations (SI 1994 No 3144) had no application.
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  • De La Rue International Ltd v Loch Defending (as led junior) civil claim against former employee involving over half a million pounds
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  • ARA v Djavaheri and others Acting for ARA in claim of over £600,000 in civil recovery proceedings
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  • ARA v Devereaux and Devereaux Acting for ARA in claim of nearly £100,000 in civil recovery proceedings
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  • ARA v Henry Defending civil recovery claim following linked criminal proceedings
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  • R v Morris and others  Defending extensive restraint proceedings in High Court, linked to major money laundering trial
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  • R v Gill  Defending substantial confiscation proceedings relating to conspiracy to defraud a building society
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  • R v Johnson and others  Prosecuting (as led junior) drugs and money laundering conspiracy
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  • R v Keenan and others Prosecuting (as led junior) multi-handed trial and confiscation of counterfeit Viagra/Kamagra conspiracy
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  • R v Green and others Prosecuting (as led junior) multi-handed global money laundering conspiracy
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  • R v Birks and others Defending significant application for confiscation following trial on corruption charges (aka “Donnygate”)
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  • Re Pujalte and others Acting for National Crime Squad in application to forfeit almost half a million pounds in cash
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  • R v Hughes, Anderson and others Acting for Customs in High Court and Court of Appeal on powers of management receivers to sell assets to pay costs
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