Nasra Butt

Year of Call: 2002

Education / Qualifications

LLB (Hons) First Class, Leeds

Appointments

Grade 2 Prosecutor

List C on Attorney General's List of Advocates

Specialist practice areas

Financial crime
Serious & organised crime
Asset Forfeiture & Confiscation
Crime
Regulatory

Profile

GENERAL CRIMINAL PRACTICE

Nasra is an experienced and accomplished Crown Court Advocate.

Most recently she has been instructed as junior for the Crown in a multi-handed Prosecution on behalf of RCPO and the SOCA for a £25 million pound money laundering operation, importation of cocaine with street value of £1.4 million, multiple tax credit fraud trials where the total losses were over £30,000, 5 counts of Fraudulently obtaining £20,000 in benefits by the use of false identities.

Nasra's defence practice has been equally successful to date.   Amongst a varied and experienced Crown Court practice most notably she has achieved an acquittal for an offence of knife point robbery and armed robbery.   She has defended to trial for an offence of Conspiracy to Burgle£40,000 from a nightclub and in confiscation proceedings; indecency with a child under age of 16 where the complainant suffered from cerebral-palsy; indecent assaults on females aged 8 and 9 years by a 17 year old defendant who suffered from a personality disorder and was made subject to a hospital order.

Nasra is also experienced in representing the Crown and the Defence in confiscation proceedings, restraint orders, cash detention and forfeiture in the Magistrates, Crown and High Court applications for certificates of inadequacy.

SERIOUS AND COMPLEX CRIME

Nasra is regularly instructed as a junior defence Counsel in serious and complex criminal trials e.g.

• R -v- Wilkinson and Others: 13 handed Conspiracy to handle stolen goods.   The defendant was part of a large scale operation to handle motor vehicles stolen in Hanoi burglaries
• R -v- Amran Ali and Others: 5 handed Conspiracy to defraud financial institutions of over £500,000, by using false details to obtain credit cards and secondary cards which were then used to obtain goods, services and cash.                                    
• R -v- Charles Drury and Others: 13 handed conspiracy to supply class A and C drugs

FAMILY

Nasra is also an accomplished family practitioner, regularly appearing in Magistrates, County and High Court private and public law proceedings, namely contact and residence, injunctive relief, committal and care proceedings (including non accidental injury findings of fact and wardship)

 

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

Family Law Association

North Eastern Circuit