Allison Clare KC
Call: 1992 | Silk: 2020
Call: 1992 | Silk: 2020
Allison is Head of the Business Crime & Fraud Practice Group in Chambers. She specialises in all aspects of corporate and individual white collar crime, acting in criminal cases and advising major corporate clients.
Silks Band 1 in Financial Crime: Corporates and Silks Band 2 Financial Crime Individuals (2023 Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide).
She graduated from Oxford University with a BA in Law and a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law. Shortlisted for ‘Barrister of the Year’ at The Lawyer Awards 2020.
― Legal 500 (2024)Allison is reliable, well-organised and always on top of the detail of a case. She has well-developed client handling skills and an easy manner with her team. She is a true expert in financial crime cases, understated and effective.
2023 Chambers UK: Leading Fraud Silk for both corporates (Band 1) and individuals (Band 2)
Legal 500: Leading Silk in Fraud and Business & Regulatory Crime (including global investigations)
― Chambers UK (2023)Allison is very pragmatic in terms of her advice.
― Chambers UK (2023)She is absolutely first-rate.
― Chambers UK 2022She is absolutely first-class and a very bright fraud specialist.
― Chambers UK 2022Absolutely outstanding.
― Chambers UK 2022She is tremendously impressive, and commands respect.
― Chambers UK 2022Very careful and thoughtful."
― Chambers UK 2021She is really easy going but remarkably hard-working.
― Chambers UK 2021She is a very good tactician and can spot the points that others do not. She has a keen attention to detail and is very meticulous. She injects into litigation a high level of integrity and discipline because of her breadth of knowledge.
― Legal 500 2022 and 2021She has an incisive mind and authoritative approach to cases.
― Legal 500 2022 and 2021Allison is fabulous. Her advice is always of the highest quality. She is down to earth and a pleasure to instruct.
― Chambers UK 2020Brings a degree of clarity and circumspection to a case and is really able to sense-test what you do. If a matter goes to trial her technical ability is second to none, and she is excellent for those who want to properly challenge on an evidential basis.
― Chambers UK 2020She has a first-class mind and a lot of experience.
― Chambers UK 2019She is clever, commercial and pragmatic, and she understands the client’s needs.
― Chambers UK 2019Has total mastery of the factual elements of her brief. Her rigorous legal analysis results in clear and practical advice on matters which have no precedent.
― Legal 500 2019Clever, commercial and pragmatic – she understands clients’ commercial needs while staying legally robust.
― Chambers UK 2018Has a very strong claim to be simply the best junior Fraud lawyer in the market. She has an extraordinary eye for detail and an immense work ethic.
― Chambers UK 2017Really strong intellectually and the master of her brief.
― Legal 500 2017She has a very impressive eye for detail.
― Legal 500 2017Her legal analysis is second to none and her attention to detail faultless.
― Chambers UK 2015-2016She is incredibly thorough, really hard-working and an all-round excellent lawyer and advocate.
― Legal 500 2015-2016She takes a sound commercial attitude.
― Legal 500 2015-2016A top choice for both prosecution and defence work.
― Chambers UK 2013-2014Sought after by major corporate clients to advise on criminal law issues.
― Chambers UK 2013-2014One of the go-to juniors for heavyweight Fraud cases.
― Legal 500 2012-2013Able to reduce the complex to easily understood propositions of fact or law.
― Chambers UK 2012-2013An excellent all round junior with an extensive Fraud practice.
― Chambers UK 2011-2012An accomplished senior junior… cerebral yet user friendly… great at translating complex facts into digestible plain English.
― Chambers UK 2010-2011Committed to producing work of the highest standard.
Allison specialises in defending allegations of Fraud, corruption, Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime and corporate Crime. She also advises in related pre-contentious or non-contentious matters. Allison is reported as having a first-class mind and being a great tactician who can spot the points others do not. She is described as clever, commercial and pragmatic. Her wealth of experience combined with her judgement on business and client personal needs, makes for a dynamic barrister, well placed to represent on all white collar crimes.
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Expertise in deferred prosecution agreements and international corruption cases
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Particular expertise in defending complex market frauds.
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Allison has acted for a number of prominent UK corporates in respect of international corruption, Fraud & Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime allegations and Investigations. She also advises on LPP issues.
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Allison has an in-depth knowledge of POCA and regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious issues in this area. She has also acted in contested confiscation proceedings. Allison is on the Bar Council’s Money Laundering Working Group.
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Allison has advised and acted for a number of regulatory bodies, including the GMC and OFGEM.
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