Phoebe Bragg

Practice Profile

Phoebe is a specialist advocate with experience of serious and complex cases, both defending and prosecuting.

Her practice is concentrated upon all forms of serious offending with experience of cases involving multi-national fraud, sexual assault, robbery, drugs and violence.

Phoebe has experience dealing with confiscation proceedings and costs applications following acquittal. She has also assisted in review work including the Grenfell Inquiry, the Post Office “Horizon” case and in multiple multi-jurisdictional financial fraud matters of a sensitive nature including the “Wirecard” fraud.

Phoebe is regularly instructed as led junior both prosecuting and defending in large complex investigations often involving including expert telephone, cell site and banking evidence. 

Phoebe is known for her early and thorough case preparation, attention to detail and excellent rapport with her clients.

Phoebe is public access qualified and can accept instructions on that basis.

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Memberships & Awards:

• CPS Advocate Panel for General Crime at Grade 2
• CPS Specialist Panel - Fraud Level 2
• CPS Specialist Panel - Serious Crime Level 2
• South Eastern Circuit
• Criminal Bar Association and European Criminal Bar Association
• Fraud Lawyers Association
• Ann Goddard Scholarship- Gray’s Inn

 

Education & Prior Experience

• Trinity College, University of Oxford (BA Law)
• City Law School (BPTC)
• Criminal Law and Terrorism Division, Council of Europe
• Capital defence cases in the United States: Phillips Black Law Project 

• Operation Edge [Woolwich] 2020

  Multi-handed class A & B drugs conspiracy involving “Encro chat” devices

  James Martin led Phoebe Bragg in this 4 week case involving surveillance evidence and evidence of “encro chat” devices. The defendant was accused of being the head of an organised criminal network trafficking large quantities of class A & B drugs and involved expert evidence regarding the use of “encro chat” as well as significant legal argument regarding bad character evidence. 

• Operation Tennyson [Southwark] 2020

  International 'Phishing' Fraud

  Jeffery Israel led Phoebe Bragg in this 5 month case involving over 250,000 pages of evidence.  Defendants accused of international ‘phishing’ fraud and subsequent money laundering. Vast quantities of banking and telephone evidence as the monies were layered from the UK, onto Nigeria via China, giving rise to multi-jurisdictional issues and disclosure requests.

• R v IH & Ors [Kingston] 2019

  Multi-handed conspiracy to defraud the immigration authorities

  Phoebe Bragg defended in a 17-handed conspiracy by Bangladeshi nationals to defraud the immigration authorities and obtain visas using fake documents. The multi-layered fraud involved both the UK and US immigration authorities.

• R v [VD] [Isleworth] 2019

  Fraud involving the sale of a Lucien Freud painting of Francis Bacon

  Phoebe Bragg successfully prosecuted in a fraud involving the Defendant purporting to be in possession of a genuine Lucien Freud painting of Francis Bacon, stolen in the 1980’s from a Berlin Gallery, and offering it for sale. 

• R v [Youth] 2019

  Numerous sexual assaults involving children under the age of 15

  Phoebe successfully sought a referral order in a case involving multiple sexual assaults. Instructed by BCL Solicitors.  

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