Hannah Pye

Year of Call: 2007

Education / Qualifications

LLB (Hons) (Reading)

Bar Vocational Course (Inns of Court School of Law) 
 

Specialist practice areas

Financial crime
Crime
Extradition

Profile

Following successful completion of pupillage in 2009, Hannah accepted an invitation to join Chambers and has developed a strong practice in both crime and common law. 

Hannah is regularly instructed to both prosecute and defend in magistrates’ courts and Crown Courts throughout London and the south-eastern circuit.  She has particular experience in youth court trials and in dealing with vulnerable witnesses.  As a defence advocate Hannah has successfully represented defendants charged with a variety of offences, including supply of Class A drugs, public order charges and theft. 

Hannah undertakes prosecution cases on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions, local authorities, Probation service and is a Grade 1 CPS Prosecutor.   

Hannah also regularly accepts instructions to represent requested persons at extradition hearing and on appeal to the High Court and serving prisoners at adjudication hearings.

Professional Memberships

Grays Inn

Extradition Lawyers Association

Young Fraud Lawyers Association 

Cases of note

R v B (Magistrates' Court) (Tribunal)
Case involved the imposition of a hospital order.

Operation Southend (Crown Court)
Represented defendants in large scale drugs supply operation.

Poland v S (Magistrates' Court) (Tribunal)
Contested extradition hearing on the grounds of Article 8 of the ECHR.