Aska Fujita

Practice Profile

Aska excels in cases requiring complex legal and / or extensive factual analysis. Her meticulous preparation enables her to identify and distil crucial evidence from voluminous material. She is adept in presenting expert / technical evidence clearly and succinctly to a jury.

Aska has been instructed as LPP and disclosure counsel by the Serious Fraud Office on a number of different cases and is on the SFO Prosecution counsel list. She has expertise in bribery and corruption, corporate crime, financial crime and proceeds of crime. Current instructions include acting for the first defendant in a prosecution brought by the FCA in relation to CFD pension trading fraud (press release here).

Aska is a native Japanese speaker and has given seminars on UK constitutional and criminal law to Japanese lawyers, judges, prosecutors and MPs.

Aska is a member of the CBA Education & Training Committee.

Aska's Privacy Policy can be downloaded here.

Memberships & Publications

• South Eastern Circuit
• Criminal Bar Association
• Bar Human Rights Committee
• Young Fraud Lawyers Association
• Turkey Indictment Project: Cumhuriyet trial, BHRC report, available here

Appointments

• CPS Advocate Panel Level 3 [2020-2026]
• CPS Specialist Panel – Fraud (Level 3) [2018-2022]
• CPS Specialist Panel – Serious Crime (Level 3) [2018-2022]
• SFO Prosecution Panel B List [2020-2024]

Education & Awards

• Harmsworth Scholarship, Middle Temple (2011)
• BPTC (2011)
• MA, UCL (2007)
• LLB, Waseda University, Japan (2005)

• Operation Wheelstep [Central Criminal Court] 2023

  Halloween Party Murder

  Aska, led by Tony Badenoch of 6KBW, was instructed to prosecute six defendants charged with murder.

  News report here.

• Operation Uvrou [Central Criminal Court] 2023

  Fake Bomb Attack

  As led junior, Aska represented the second defendant who was charged with conspiring to place fake bombs in Gray’s Inn. Instructed by Freemans.

  News report here.

• Operation Brightley [Isleworth Crown Court] 2023

  International Cash Couriers

  Aska, led by Ben Temple, was instructed to represent one of five defendants in the first of a series of trials which alleged that a large number of couriers made / attempted to make a total of 85 flights from LHR to Dubai carrying suitcases containing over £100m in cash. Instructed by Brooklyn Law.

  News report here.

• Inquest into the death of WS [Maidstone Crown Court] 2020

  Inquest into Police Shooting

  Aska, led by Chris Sutton-Mattocks, was instructed as Counsel to the Inquest in this 5-week inquest into the death of WS who was shot by the police on 1st May 2016. Report here.

• Operation Atoll [Kingston Crown Court] 2020

  Armed Robbery

  Aska was instructed as led junior counsel to prosecute seven defendants charged with armed robbery. The defendants targeted cash-in-transit deliveries and threatened security staff with loaded firearms, crowbars and other weapons. Through extensive analysis of cell-site and vehicle tracking data, their movements following cash-in-transit vans in the days prior to the robberies as they reconnoitred the routes were revealed. Instructed by the CPS Complex Casework Division.

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