Caroline Day

Caroline has significant experience in complex fraud and business crime litigation. She has acted in cases of serious fraud, money laundering, corruption and cartels and has advised companies and individuals subject of investigations and prosecutions by various agencies including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Caroline has a particular interest in cases with an international dimension and cross border investigations and prosecutions. Her experience includes requests for mutual legal assistance and extradition. She also advises in corporate internal investigations and is currently conducting an internal investigation on behalf of a UK company in connection with allegations of foreign corruption and fraud.

Caroline also has extensive experience representing individuals facing a very broad range of criminal allegations, from driving offences to internet crime, violence, sex offences and other serious matters. She specialises in representing clients at police interviews, often leading to successful outcomes for her clients at the early stages of a case.

Alongside her fraud and general crime practice Caroline represents members of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association facing internal disciplinary inquiries. She recently assisted John Harding in representing the Chief Constable of North Yorkshire in relation to a misconduct hearing, and acting for the Chief Constable of Cleveland in relation to allegations of corruption and misconduct in a public office.   

Additionally Caroline has public law experience having represented a number of military witnesses in the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry which investigated the circumstances of the death of an Iraqi hotel receptionist held in British custody in 2003.

What client’s have said

• “I am most grateful for your care and professionalism. You made me feel so much better than I have been feeling lately, and I do thank you for that”
• “Many thanks again for your expert advice and interventions”
• “Thank you for doing a great job regarding my case”
• “Professional, solicitous, honest, firm and kind”

Published articles and presentations

• Speaks at conferences and seminars both in the UK and abroad.
• Contributor to consultations and papers on behalf of the LCCSA and Kingsley Napley.
• Solicitors Journal, Update: Police, September 2011 
• Solicitors Journal, Update: Police, May 2011 
• Solicitors Journal, Update: Police, November 2010
• Solicitors Journal, Update: Police and Criminal Evidence, 12 July 2010
• Solicitors Journal, Update: Police, 9 March 2010

Professional societies

• The Law Society
• European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)
• London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA)
• Extradition Lawyers Association (ELA)