Lara Maroof
Year of Call: 2001 LLB (Hons)
Affiliations: Lawyers for Liberty, Liberty, Prisoner's Advisory Service, CAMPACC
Specialist Areas: General Crime, Serious Crime, Sexual Offences, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, Commercial Crime, Money Laundering, Local Government Crime & Enforcement, Parole Hearings
Biography
Lara Maroof is a criminal defence practitioner with experience of a broad spectrum of criminal offences as sole junior counsel and led junior counsel. Major areas of expertise include:
Robberies
Sexual Offences
Drug Trafficking
Fraud
Money Laundering
Confiscation Proceedings
Lara has a particular interest in cases involving young offenders and has significant experience in representing young people in the Crown Court. She also has significant experience and expertise regarding:
Offences under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
Immigration-related crime due to background in immigration and asylum work
Courts Martial work, representing soldiers both in the UK and abroad
Another area within which Lara is considered an expert is that of prisoners’ rights. She has notable experience in all areas of prison law, including:
Parole board hearings for lifers and those sentenced to IPP’s
Recall hearings
Prison disciplinary adjudications
Written appeals against punishments of adjudicators
Judicial review of all decisions relating to prisoners rights