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

Proceeds of Crime and Confiscation

Jane has extensive experience of prosecuting offences under the Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime regime. She was instructed in one of the first prosecutions for money laundering offences where no predicate offence was charged R v El-Kurd (2001) Crim L.R.234.

Jane was Special Advisor to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Proceeds of Crime matters.

She is familiar with the confiscation regime under POCA and has been instructed to act in POCA cases in the Crown Court, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Cases

  • R v Fulton [2019] EWCA Crim 163: Appeal against confiscation order concerning what constituted a power of disposition and control over a bank account for the purposes of calculating benefit from criminal conduct.
  • R v El-Kurd (2001) Crim L.R.234 – This case remains a leading authority in conspiracy for the proposition that it may not be necessary to prove that the carrying out of an agreement will necessarily result in the commission of a specific offence, provided that it can be shown that it would, or was intended to result in the commission of at least one or two identified offences.