Hannah Willcocks practises in all areas of crime, including money laundering, drugs, firearms, robberies, serious assaults, child neglect, kidnap and sexual offences and over the last 18 months in particular, she has been instructed in several long fraud cases. She prosecutes as a Grade 3 advocate for the CPS and is on the Attorney General’s C List. She also defends.

Regularly briefed as junior counsel for the Crown in large, multi-handed and often complex cases, she is not only used to dealing with the demands of case management that such junior work involves but also, she has gained significant experience both in dealing with issues of disclosure and public immunity interest (including matters raised by the use of various types of surveillance techniques) and in analysing and reducing voluminous papers into manageable ‘jury-friendly’ formats.

As a junior in her own right, Hannah also has considerable experience in the Crown Court and has appeared in many trials involving young defendants, vulnerable witnesses and special measures.

In 2005 she was seconded to the Asset Forfeiture Division at the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office for a month where she gained a grounding in asset forfeiture work. Since then she has sought to develop her expertise in both this area and that of confiscation and has been briefed in various cases involving restraint proceedings (under the CJA 1988 and POCA 2002) and the enforcement of confiscation orders. Through both her general Prosecution work and her confiscation work, Hannah has also dealt with Letters of Request.

Books and Articles

Co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Road Traffic Law and Practice 

R v ***** and others: junior disclosure counsel in a multi-handed MTIC and money-laundering prosecution. Led by John Black QC, Shane Collery and Rebecca Chalkley.

Instructed by DEFRA both as 2nd junior prosecution counsel and as disclosure counsel in a prosecution involving the illegal importation and supply of veterinary medicines. Led by Andrew Marshall and Tom Payne.

 

Op. Stirling [2008-2009]: disclosure counsel in a multi-handed tax evasion, money laundering and mortgage fraud case. Probe material comprised part of the evidence in this case. Led by John Black QC, Cairns Nelson and James Norman.

 

R v Islam and others [2008-2009}: Junior prosecution counsel (led by Carey Johnston QC) in an 11 handed banking fraud.

 

Op. Nutant [2007 -2008]: junior prosecution counsel (led by Shane Collery) in case involving the importation of 36.72 kilos of heroin.

 

R v Reilly [2007]: junior counsel for the prosecution (led by Carey Johnston QC) in a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and possession of firearms case.

 

R v ******* [2007]: originally sole counsel for the defence but later led by Simon Spence (now QC) in rape case (oral) involving 16 year old defendant and 15 year old complainant.

 

R v Lazarus [2007]: sole defence counsel in complicated child pornography committal for sentence.

 

R v Yanie (Nii Ampan) [2007] EWCA Crim 1175 2007 WL 1472062 (Court of Appeal - Criminal Division): Defence counsel in successful appeal against sentence regarding offences of supplying Class A drugs.

 

R v Baljit Bhandal and others [2006]: junior counsel for the prosecution (led by Sally-Ann Hales) in 6 handed case involving two conspiracies to kidnap. This case involved one defendant giving Queen’s Evidence for the Crown. In addition, there was a significant amount of cell site evidence which Hannah called and cross-examined the experts upon.

 

R v Mohammed Faruq and others [2005-2006]: Second junior counsel for the prosecution in a 16 handed £611,000 benefit and immigration fraud (split into 3 trials, led by John Black QC and Jane Bewsey).

1998 - BA Joint Hons Modern Languages (Bristol) 2:1

2000 - GDL (BPP Law School), Distinction

2001 - BVC (BPP Law School), Very Competent

 

Blackstone Prize for top GDL student at BPP Law School (2000)

BPP Law School Academic Bursary for Diploma in Law

Middle Temple Harmsworth Scholarship for BVC