• R v X (2020) Representing a youth client charged with false imprisonment and ABH (ongoing)
• R v X (2019) Client acquitted of two counts of ill treatment of persons who lack capacity – allegations related to two different people in a care home and the case included submissions on the sufficiency of the expert evidence as well as non-defendant bad character issues arising out of defence applications for disclosure
• R v X (2019) Represented client in serious ABH that followed a motorway road rage incident, successful submissions on dangerousness
• R v X (2018) Following successful written representations, prosecution offered no evidence on an alleged benefit fraud totalling over £10k
• R v X (2018) Represented client in a sentencing hearing for production of Class B drugs, successfully achieving a sentence outside of the sentencing guidelines, despite initially being categorised by the prosecution as playing a “significant role”.
• R v X (a child) (2018) Despite crossing the custody threshold, 15-year-old client given a referral order following a two-day multi-handed youth robbery Newton hearing.
• R v X (2018) Represented client in a sentencing hearing for a multi-handed violent disorder
• R v X (2017) Client acquitted of two charges of assaulting two police officers and possession of a bladed article.
• R v X (2017) Client acquitted of burglary on the basis that he was a genuine squatter.
• R v X (2017) Prosecution discontinued following successful legal argument about whether client’s alleged offence was committed in a “public place”.

Aimee also prosecutes on behalf of the CPS, National Probation Service and local authorities. She is a Grade 2 prosecutor.

Junior Counsel in the Dame Linda Dobbs Review (ongoing)

First Junior to Counsel to the Chair of the Dobbs Review. Assisting Dame Linda Dobbs in considering whether issues relating to HBOS Reading were investigated and appropriately reported to authorities following Lloyds Banking Group’s acquisition of HBOS.

Advising a central government department on issues relating to Brexit, human rights and international law

Aimee has also previously also been instructed in advisory matters for a number of government departments, with experience in advising on legal professional privilege and Parliamentary privilege.

Counsel team to the Undercover Policing Inquiry (2018)

A member of the inquiry counsel team to the public inquiry into undercover policing.

Junior Counsel to the Inquest touching upon the death of Ellie Butler (2018)

This was an Article 2 inquest. As junior counsel to the inquest, Aimee prepared the core material, had responsibility over disclosure issues, drafted written legal advice to the Assistant Coroner on issues relating to Article 2 and public interest immunity, and questioned key witnesses.

Aimee will accept instructions to represent bereaved families, recognising the challenges of legal aid in this area.

Commissioner for the Police of the Metropolis v X (2018)

Successfully resisted a police application for a sexual harm prevention order against a particularly vulnerable client. This included advising on multiple expert reports, working with an intermediary and legal argument on hearsay evidence.

Aimee also has experience in defending closure orders and in making successful applications for immigration bail in the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum).

Co-author: RPC report on the topical issue of whether it is now time for a failure to prevent fraud offence to be introduced – Is the law on corporate criminal liability about to take a new turn [LAW GAZETTE] [Download PDF]

Assisted in editing Archbold 2018 Chapter 8 Witnesses and Chapter 19 Offences Against the Person