Tana Adkin
Year of Call: 1992 BA (Hons) GDL
Specialist Areas: Serious Crime, Homicide, Serious Violent Offences, Firearms, Large Drugs Related Offences, Sexual Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, Money Laundering, Local Government Crime & Enforcement, Social Security Offences
BiographyAs a criminal advocate of 15 years’ standing, Tana Adkin is an experienced Sexual Offences specialist. She acts as Leading Counsel in serious Rape trials, including those involving multiple complainants, multiple defendants and “stranger rape”. She lectures on Rape with particular reference to intoxication and consent.
Tana has vast experience of cases concerning vulnerable defendants and witnesses, in particular, children, the elderly and those suffering from mental illness or learning difficulties and all types of case involving “special measures”. She conducts cases of “shaken baby syndrome” and ritual child cruelty and is experienced in cross-examining paediatric and medical experts concerning serious head or genital injury. She also conducts cases involving internet paedophile crime.
A Level 3 Prosecutor on the CPS specialist Rape list, Tana prosecutes in certain London Boroughs. She prosecutes high profile cases including prosecution of a Church Minister, gang rape of a prostitute and historic rape. She was also recently instructed in a case involving the mummified remains of a girl.
Other areas of case experience include:
Serious Violence (Murder, Attempted Murder and Section 18)
Serious Drugs Offences (Including large-scale drugs importation)
Post-trial Proceedings (Involving confiscation and asset recovery)
Fraud (Particularly with respect to cross-border money transfers)
Established as a leading expert on matters concerning sexual offences, Tana appeared on the news last year being interviewed with respect to government proposals on prostitution and on Radio 4 Women’s Hour in June 2010 opposite Harriet Harman on the issue of anonymity in rape cases.