Chloé Barton
Year of Call: 2006
Affiliations: Howard League for Penal Reform
Specialist Areas: General Crime, Local Government Crime & Enforcement, Extradition
Biography
Chloé Barton joined Chambers after completion of her pupillage in February 2008 and is primarily a criminal defence practitioner. She is also a Grade 1 prosecutor and prosecutes for Westminster City Council, represents appellants at the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel and has undertaken two short secondments with the RCPO as well as a secondment with the SFO.
She has a particular interest in prisons, their history, and how they operate today and she is also a partner in campaigning for the NSPCC.
Areas in which she has particularly wide experience include:
General Crime
Local Government Crime & Enforcement
Extradition
She has worked as contract counsel with the RCPO. In this capacity Chloé has been involved in drafting a report for the Attorney-General regarding the release of third-party data and has also been part of the Chambers Review team – reviewing tobacco smuggling cases where the wrong legislation may have been relied upon and confiscation orders wrongly made. More recently she was instructed by the Serious Fraud Office for a disclosure exercise which involved reviewing over one million pages of material, many which were subject to legal professional privilege.
Chloé has acted for appellants at the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel where she represents those who wish to challenge decisions made by CICA in relation to financial awards made to those who have suffered injury as a result of a criminal act.