Charlotte Kenny
Practice
Charlotte is an accomplished advocate - a leading junior for the defence with comprehensive and wide-ranging experience of serious and complex criminal cases.
A Category 4 prosecutor selected for the Attorney General’s Unified List, Charlotte is also regularly instructed in heavyweight cases by the Crown Prosecution Service and HM Revenue and Customs.
Charlotte’s specialist areas of practice are:
- Fraud
- Large-scale national and international drug conspiracies
- Money laundering
- Proceeds of crime
- Regulatory work
- Homicide
- Firearms
- Armed robbery
- Serious sexual offences
- Child neglect and cruelty
- Appellate work
Recent notable cases for the Defence include the following:
Large–Scale Drug Supply and Importation Conspiracies
Operation Tennyson - Liverpool Crown Court 2009/10
Operation Cirrate - leading junior - Liverpool Crown Court 2009/10
Operation Subito - Liverpool Crown Court 2008/2009
Operation Montrose – leading junior - Liverpool Crown Court 2007/2009
Large-scale conspiracy to supply class A drugs; instructed at the Appeal stage and for the complex proceeds of crime application.
Operation Lima – Liverpool Crown Court 2006/2008 - A large-scale international drugs conspiracy with complex proceeds of crime application.
Large-Scale Excise Evasion
Operation Buckeye (R v Hussain and others) – Manchester Crown Court 2010
R v Smith and others - Manchester Crown Court (2009) - A million pound evasion of duty payable on imported tobacco.
Fraud
Operation Abraid (R v Tierney and others)- Liverpool Crown Court (2007/8) - Junior for one of two main defendants in large-scale multi-million pound money laundering and mortgage fraud conspiracy with international connections and alleged employment of corrupt solicitors.
R v O’Toole and others -Preston Crown Court (2007/8) - A conspiracy to obtain property by deception and to launder the proceeds of crime; the case involved the provision by associated companies of damp-proofing alleged to be unnecessary and worthless.
Operation Scalpel (R v Jennings and others) - Manchester Crown Court (2005/7) - A half a million pound fraud involving finance company advertising unsecured loans to the adverse credit market for payment of up-front administration fees.
Murder
R v Gardner – Liverpool Crown Court (2009) - High profile murder: cyclist pursued by defendant in car and fatally stabbed.
Child Cruelty
R v Bond – Liverpool Crown Court (2008) - A high–profile and unique child abandonment case: mother of two babies abandoned on two separate occasions traced through DNA. The case involved research into “late discovery” pregnancies.
Charlotte is currently instructed for the Prosecution in the following frauds:
Operation Colon - A large-scale and complex fraud involving the submission of hundreds of purported personal injury claims by a fraudulent claims management company with the purpose of defrauding firms of solicitors of referral fees.
Operation Cloudlet - A complex multi-handed cheat on the Revenue, involving the submission of numerous false applications for the repayment of VAT, by a business group purportedly operating a series of bona fides companies.
Operation Anfield - Leading junior in a complex multi-million pound proceeds of crime application made after the defendants’ conviction for cheating the revenue and money laundering.
Operation Compost - Led by Brian Cummings QC, a large-scale multi-million pound oil fraud involving the laundering and onward distribution of rebated fuel. The case also includes prosecution for a major pollution incident following the leak of red diesel into the Grand Union Canal.
Operation Lillywhite - A large-scale and multi-handed conspiracy to fraudulently obtain tax- credits.
Other recent notable cases for the Prosecution include:
R v Bennett – Liverpool Crown Court (2009) - Prosecution for attempted murder of two police officers; the case involved a novel ballistic issue calling for detailed and forensic cross-examination of an expert.
Personal
BA (Hons) Philosophy (Hull) (1st Class); Diploma in Law (City University London); Bar Vocational Course (London).
Member of Criminal Bar Association.
