An experienced criminal practitioner, Sarah is well-known for her specialist expertise in both white collar crime and serious crime. She is regularly involved in cases prosecuted by the CPS Fraud Prosecution Service and the SFO and so has invaluable experience of lengthy and complex fraud, money laundering and confiscation cases. She also has considerable experience of murder and drugs importation cases.
Sarah's practice also includes regulatory work where she has experience in representing pharmacists at regulatory hearings and in the Crown Court.
Sarah writes on her areas of legal speciality and is the author of the chapter "Fraudulent Trading and other frauds on creditors" in Butterworths' "Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure".
Key Cases
- R v Cushnie & Ors: acting for one of the defendants in the Serious Fraud Office prosecution arising out of the multi-million pound collapse of the Versailles group
- Prosecution junior in an ongoing series of nationwide fraud cases prosecuted by the CPS Fraud Prosecution Service and concerning the Individual Learning Accounts Scheme operated by DfES.
Contact Sarah Wood
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk