Fiona Jackson

Year of Call: 1998

Fiona Jackson practises in crime for both the prosecution and defence, and has a particular interest in financial crime and confiscation issues. She has represented a wide range of prominent defence and prosecution clients, including prosecuting authorities, the Assets Recovery Agency, the National Crime Squad (now SOCA), 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 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 and money laundering 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).

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 is currently the Recorder of the Circuit.