Jane Bewsey KC

Call 1986
Silk 2010
Door Tenant

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  • Recommendations

    “Jane is a brilliant jury advocate in complex fraud cases. She is able to simplify the most complex issues in a manner the jury understands. Her cross-examination is outstanding.” ― Legal 500 (2025)

    “Jane is thorough, clear and very experienced.” ― Chambers UK (2025)

    “She is brilliant in simplifying the most complex of fraud cases for juries and her cross-examination skills are second-to-none in this area.” ― Legal 500 (2024)

    “Even when dealing with the fine details she does not lose sight of the bigger picture.” ― Chambers UK (2023)

    “Jane has a very strong practice.” ― Chambers UK (2023)

    “She shows a very firm grip on her cases.”― Chambers UK (2023)

    “Jane can break difficult concepts down into simple principles for a jury.”― Chambers UK (2023)

    “No one in financial crime cross-examines better than Jane.” ― Legal 500 (2023)

    “She is totally unflappable, a fair prosecutor and a formidable opponent.” ― Chambers UK (2022)

    “She never takes a bad point and is a very effective and efficient advocate.” ― Chambers UK (2022)

    “An eminently sensible silk, who is very good at handling the fine details of a case without losing sight of the bigger picture.” ― Legal 500 (2022)

    “Excellent and very hard-working, with the detail of the case at her fingertips.” ― Chambers UK (2021)

    “A formidable opponent who gets the best results.” ― Chambers UK (2021)

    “Very thorough, fair and effective.” ― Chambers UK (2021)

    “A consummate prosecutor, fair, thorough and in cross-examination often the undoing of even the cleverest witness.”― Legal 500 (2021)

    “Very fair in her approach. She’s utterly persistent in cross-examination but able to step back and gain the confidence of the judge as well as the jury.” ― Chambers UK (2020)

    “She sets things out with absolute calm and clarity.” ― Chambers UK (2020)

    “Formidable yet personable, and a thorough cross-examiner.” ― Legal 500 (2020)

  • Education

    MA, Cambridge University

  • Memberships

    CBA

    South Eastern Circuit

    Inner Temple

  • Publications

    Arlidge and Parry on Fraud, sixth edition, Sweet and Maxwell, contributing author

  • News

Fraud

Jane is instructed in cases involving Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime, tax evasion, corporate fraud, mortgage fraud, fraud targeting the NHS and in cases arising from the collapse of companies including allegations of fraudulent trading, insolvency offences, and breaches of company law and in immigration Fraud cases including issues relating to diplomatic immunity.

Additionally, she has been instructed in cases arising from the collapse of companies including allegations of fraudulent trading, insolvency offences and breaches of company law.

Cases

  • Instructed by the SFO to prosecute offences of conspiracy to defraud and fraudulent trading following the collapse of the Balli Group of companies in 2013 with losses exceeding $300m.
  • Operation Manningtree – An HMRC investigation into tax and duty evasion relating to the trans-shipping of solar panels manufactured in China to the UK. Includes a significant international element and close cooperation with EU regulators and investigators.
  • Operation Slipstream (2018-2019) – A Home Office investigation into alleged abuses of the Tier 4 student visa system, with linked fraud and dishonesty offences.
  • Operation Twilight (2017-2018) – Six defendants were charged with cheating the Revenue by manipulating film schemes. The defendants included a former EY partner, a former police officer, a former city trader, a dentist, the former CEO of a high street travel company and a financial advisor. [Press Report]
  • Operation Tarlac (2016-2019) – Instructed to prosecute a series of trials involving 15 defendants alleging counts of conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to money launder, money laundering and perverting the course of justice. It involved an international organised crime group which targeted NHS trusts, councils, educational institutions etc by fraudulently diverting £12.6m from legitimate construction projects through a complex web of bank accounts, principally in the UK and Dubai. Confiscation proceedings in 2018-2019 have recovered significant sums from convicted defendants which will be used to compensate the defrauded organisations. [Press Report]
  • Operation Vista (2016) – Instructed to prosecute seven defendants, including those responsible for organising the laundering of funds from a European VAT fraud. Reporting: Operation Vista (2017) EWCA Crim 308; R v Aslam (2017) EWCA Crim 277.
  • Operation Bamburgh (2015) – Conspiracy to defraud by a number of corrupt professionals in NE England acting in breach of their professional obligations arising out of a £110m mortgage fraud.
  • Operation Twilight (2014) – Instructed to prosecute seven people, including four Gambian diplomats, for conspiracy to cheat the Revenue of £4.8m duty and tax evaded through a systematic abuse of the duty free scheme enjoyed by diplomatic missions in the UK.
  • Following a Home Office investigation (2014) – Prosecution of company directors involved in an immigration scam, based upon the fraudulent obtaining of Sponsorship Licences to sponsor non EEA migrant workers under Tier 2 Points Based System and the laundering of the proceeds of the sale of so-called “Work Permits” through a substantial series of complex financial movements.
  • Operation Inertia (2007-2012) – Instructed as one of the prosecution team in one of the largest and most complex MTIC frauds to date. This involved 17 defendants and five trials, with estimated losses of £170m over a five-month period.
  • Operation Rosary (2012-2014) – MTIC prosecution of Midlands based businessmen linked to Operation Inertia.