Charlotte prosecutes and defends serious and organised crime, often with an international element, for which she has received commendations from Europol and the Metropolitan Police. Charlotte was appointed Treasury Counsel Monitoree in April 2024.
She quickly earns the trust of vulnerable clients and scared or reluctant witnesses, as well as the confidence of instructing lawyers and police officers, including those from other jurisdictions, and has been praised by the National Crime Agency for her guidance offered to case teams, particularly those including less-experienced officers.
Charlotte has expertise in the management of complex disclosure across paper-heavy frauds and sensitive matters, and has delivered training to the CPS on “Prosecuting International and Organised Crime: Pitfalls and Protocols in Disclosure”.
Recently she has specialised in ‘romance’ frauds, involving the use of false identities on dating apps to target vulnerable victims, who are often reluctant to support a prosecution due to shame or embarrassment, and the laundering of significant sums of money in multiple countries.
Charlotte has a particular interest in cases involving complex scientific evidence, holding a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences.
Current instructions include: investigations by the Flying Squad and the NCA, and cases prosecuted by the CPS Complex Casework Unit, Homicide Unit, and Serious Economic, Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID), as well as private instructions to defend in cases of sexual assault and stalking.
Charlotte's Privacy Policy can be downloaded here.
Memberships
The Criminal Bar Association
The South Eastern Circuit
Appointments
Treasury Counsel Monitoree
CPS Advocate Panel for General Crime at Grade 4
CPS Specialist Panel - Fraud Level 3
CPS Specialist Panel - Serious Crime Level 4
Pupil Supervisor
Education
Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences (forensic medicine, forensic science, and the law as applicable to the forensic sciences), Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (2019). Dissertation: “The medico-legal investigation of the death of persons deprived of their liberty by the state”.
Bar Vocational Course, City University (2009); British Academy of Forensic Sciences Prize
Graduate Diploma in Law (2007)
BA Literae Humaniores, University of Oxford (2004, MA (Oxon) 2009)
News
Family OCG Guilty of 1 Tonne Cocaine Conspiracy
28 April 2025
Charlotte Hole and Sam Willis prosecuted a family of drug traffickers responsible...
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Appointments to Treasury Counsel Monitoree
12 March 2024
Chambers is delighted to announce that Charlotte Hole and Frederick Hookway have...
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OCG who Acquired a Gun to Protect their Class A Drug Dealing Business Convicted
19 February 2024
Charlotte Hole, leading Anna Dutka, secured convictions against all 5 defendants...
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Containers filled with 270kg of cocaine, 2,500kg of cannabis and 18.6m cigarettes
15 December 2023
Charlotte Hole and Sam Willis prosecuted two importers for bringing into the UK...
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OCG prosecuted for spree of commercial burglaries
22 June 2023
Following an eight-week trial at Croydon Crown Court, eight members of an...
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Leading Dominic Hockley, 2HB – prosecution of an organised crime group identified through Operation Venetic, involving Encrochat and SkyECC material. The group had conspired to supply wholesale quantities of Class A drugs, and weapons including a Skorpion machine pistol and handguns.
Defence of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who attempted to stab a police officer whilst intoxicated and during an acute psychotic episode. Junior alone.
£384k confiscated from drug dealers following convictions for conspiracy to supply drugs with a street value of over £10m, after 951kg of cannabis was found in a lorry load of rabbit hay. Junior alone. (R v Seabrook & ors [Woolwich] 2018)
Prosecution of twelve defendants in relation to a string of high value commercial burglaries involving the theft of rare and precious books. Led by Catherine Farrelly.
Charlotte Hole defended a 25 year old with autism and learning difficulties, charged with malicious communications offences relating to threatening calls he made to the police. He was found unfit to plead, acquitted of one of the counts, and admitted to the National Autism Unit, a course the Probation Service had been unsuccessfully recommending for a number of years.
Charlotte Hole, instructed by the CPS Complex Casework Unit, prosecuted a serving police officer charged with assaulting two teenagers when called to a domestic dispute.
Charlotte Hole defended an 84 year old man with Alzheimer’s disease who was charged with assaulting his elderly partner, causing her significant facial injuries. The complainant was unable to attend Court, raising issues of hearsay, and the defendant was unfit to plead.
Charlotte Hole defended a 21 year old social worker in an Operation Trident case, after live ammunition was found in her bedroom. The defendant faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years, but was acquitted after trial.
Successfully defended a prosecution appeal against a decision to stay proceedings involving a vulnerable defendant where special measures were essential for a fair trial, but had not been put in place by the Court.
