Isabella Crowdy

Firearms Law

Isabella is regularly instructed in the field of firearms licensing, dealing with each of her cases robustly and pragmatically. A selection of her cases from the past year (2024 / 2025) is as follows:

• S v Chief Constable of Kent Police: Appeal against the revocation of a firearms certificate, shotgun certificate, explosives certificate and registration as a firearms dealer. The Appellant had, for some years, operated a firearms business from his home address. However, a change in his domestic circumstances led the police to conclude that this could not continue without there being a danger to the public.
• S v Chief Constable of Kent Police – Appeal against the refusal of an application for a shotgun certificate. The application under appeal was the Appellant’s fourth application for a shotgun certificate. The refusal was based on domestic abuse committed by the Appellant in his previous relationship. The matter involved detail consideration of psychiatric reports that the Appellant had obtained.
• M v Chief Constable of Kent Police – Appeal against the refusal of an application for a shotgun certificate. The application had been refused due to the Appellant’s offending history and his non-disclosure of the same.
• B v Chief Constable of Kent Police – Appeal against the refusal of an application for a shotgun certificate. The Appellant had sought to present himself as highly experienced in the use of firearms, but his application was refused after he showed a lack of knowledge and regard for the legal responsibilities placed on licence holders during the application process.

Civil Protection Orders

Isabella is highly experienced in applications by the police for civil protection orders and routinely deals with the following:

• Sexual Risk and Sexual Harm Prevention Orders
• Stalking Protection Orders
• Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders
• Domestic Violence Protection Orders
• Closure Orders
• Anti-Social Behaviour Orders / Gang Injunctions

A selection of her cases from the past year is as follows:

• Chief Constable of Kent Police v S – Application for a sexual risk order. The Defendant came to police attention after employing the services of sex workers and expressing to several of them highly disturbing fantasies of a sexual nature. The Defendant did not deny expressing these fantasies but denied that he would ever act on them or that he posed any risk to the public at all. The Defendant relied upon expert psychiatric evidence at trial.
• Chief Constable of Kent Police v V – Application for a sexual risk order against a Defendant who had sexually assaulted a number of his young, female co-workers in the workplace.
• Chief Constable of Kent Police v S – Application for a stalking protection order. After separating from his partner, the Defendant exhibited a range of stalking type behaviours towards her, culminating in him breaking into her property where he was subsequently located by the police in possession of a bag containing items such as a hammer, Stanley knife and duct tape.

Inquests

Isabella has a growing practice in the field of inquest work, providing representation to families and other interested persons. Cases she has been instructed on include:

Inquest into the death of a young child who drowned in the sea during a day trip to the seaside with friends.

Inquest into the death of a young man who drowned at Chatham Historic Dockyard during a day out with his family.

Inquest (Article 2) into the death of a man who committed suicide having travelled some distance from home and who had had contact with a number of individual persons and state bodies along the way.

Family

Isabella practised in family law for a number of years and continues to accept instructions from police forces concerning issues of disclosure between the family and criminal jurisdictions.

Education

• BVC (Very Competent), Nottingham Law School (2007)
• GDL (Distinction), Nottingham Law School (2006)
• BA (Hons) (Upper Second Class), Ancient History and Latin, University of Nottingham (2004)
  

Awards

Middle Temple Chrystal MacMillan Prize (2007) – awarded for achieving results in the top 5% of that year’s BVC cohort.

Memberships

• South Eastern Circuit

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