Call: 2001

As a busy practitioner in her field, Priya Khanna is an experienced litigator. She specialises in general criminal work and has done so since 2001 when she was called to the Bar. She undertakes both defence and prosecution cases. Her areas of practice include financial crime, violence, general dishonesty, fraud and fraud-related proceedings such as asset restraint and forfeiture, and money laundering. Priya Khanna is fully conversant in the recent, complex developments in the law of confiscation. She is often instructed in such proceedings, which frequently concern assets of considerable value. She also has substantial experience of cases involving violent crime, drug trafficking, firearms and sexual offences. Priya Khanna is alert to the particular requirements of trials involving vulnerable witnesses, whether by virtue of their age or other special needs. She has examined such witnesses in the context of a variety of offences, including sexual offences.

Before and while studying for the Bar, Priya Khanna worked as a caseworker for the Crown Court Trials Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service, Chichester. During pupillage, she worked on a number of formal responses to Government reports and draft bills, including the Response to Chapter 11 (Hearsay) of the Auld Report (with Anthony Jennings QC for the Criminal Bar Association), Response to Draft Codes of Practice (A, B, C & D) under PACE 1984 (with Anthony Jennings QC, Jeremy Dein QC, John Dodd and Alan Kent for the Criminal Bar Association), the Response to the Law Commission's Provisional Proposals for Reform of the Rule in Lane (Non-Accidental Injury to or Death of Children) (with Anthony Jennings QC for Justice).

She is a member of the Criminal Bar Association.
 
Notable Cases:

• R v Frolovs, Sanina & Rudzitis (2008): Large scale cigarette importation and money laundering trial.
• R v Royffe (2008): junior counsel in grievous bodily harm and child neglect case
• R v McDermott & Osr (2008): junior counsel in firearms trial
• R v Israel Harriott (2006): junior counsel for the prosecution at trial and in the Court of Appeal: Operation Trident (Firearms)
• R v Finch & Flynn (2006): Child cruelty and neglect where defendants' were the natural parents of their young complainant child
• R v Alobaydi & Al-Ansari (2005): rape trial where the defendants' were mini-cab drivers
• R v Wilkes & Wilkes (2005): junior counsel for the Defence: Charity Fraud
• R v Patel & Hofferor (2004): Conspiracy to defraud Camden Council where one of the defendant's was an employee of the Council.