About
Rachel specialises in regulatory and financial crime. She acts for clients investigated or prosecuted by regulators such as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Trading Standards, Local Authorities; Fire Authorities and the Environment Agency. She also acts for professionals and individuals under investigation or prosecuted for financial crime such as fraud, and has longstanding expertise in professional discipline and Coroners’ Inquests.
Rachel is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Acting for a construction company and its director at trial in the Crown Court. Both were prosecuted by the HSE for breaches of the CDM Regulations 2015 and other health and safety offences
- Advising a principal contractor in the immediate aftermath following a death on a construction site
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Acting for a manufacturer in inquest proceedings following an electrocution in the workplace
- Acting for a freeholder in an appeal against enforcement notices served by the Fire and Rescue Authority
- Acting for a national care business prosecuted for waste offences
- Acting for a company prosecuted by Thames Water for pollution offences
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Acting for a national online business prosecuted by Trading Standards for offences relating to health and nutrition claims
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Acting for the Director of a business subject to contempt of court proceedings brought by Trading Standards
- Acting for the owner and director of a healthcare company prosecuted for NHS fraud, resulting in an acquittal
- Acting for a former managing director accused of fraud. No charges were brought
- Acting for a professional subject to a private prosecution for fraud offences
