Victoria Kaye

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Call: 2022

Victoria is instructed across all of Chambers’ core specialisms, including civil law, crime, regulatory, environmental and public law. She regularly appears in the Magistrates’, Crown and civil courts. She has a particular interest in the intersection between civil and criminal law. Further details of her work and recent cases can be found using the links on the left.

Victoria joined Chambers in October 2025, following successful completion of her pupillage under the supervision of Ben Irwin, Christopher Badger and Mark Davies.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Victoria worked as a paralegal in the financial crime and regulatory department at a leading defence firm. Victoria’s work included defending in SFO and FCA prosecutions and in high profile corporate manslaughter and health and safety cases. She also volunteered as a trade union representative and for the Schools Consent Project, delivering workshops on the definition of consent within schools.

Victoria welcomes instructions in all areas of planning law; she is currently instructed in planning enforcement matters.

She gained experience during pupillage assisting members of chambers with work including:

Assisting Megan Thomas KC with an advice as to a local authority’s refusal to grant a Certificate of Proposed Lawful Use pursuant to s.192 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Assisted Mark Davies in a planning enforcement matter concerning a well-known supermarket chain.

Victoria appears regularly in the Crown and Magistrates’ Courts, conducting criminal cases for both prosecution and defence across first appearances, summary trials, and sentencing hearings. Judges have remarked on her “focused, persuasive and fearless” advocacy.

R v W – Assault by Beating | Magistrates’ Court | May 2025

Victoria represented the defendant, who had been recorded on CCTV in a confrontation with a security guard and other staff, and was alleged to have made threats to kill. Through cross-examination of two prosecution witnesses, she established that neither had held a genuine apprehension of immediate unlawful violence and that the defendant had been acting in defence of another. The bench acquitted him.

The defendant was also to be sentenced for further offences to which he had pleaded guilty, whilst subject to an existing 18-month suspended sentence order. Victoria successfully resisted activation of the suspended sentence notwithstanding the number of further offences, securing a non-custodial outcome.

R v M – Racially Aggravated Harassment | Magistrates’ Court | July 2025

Victoria represented the defendant at trial on two charges of racially aggravated harassment. Her detailed cross-examination of the complainant and supporting prosecution witnesses exposed a credible motivation to fabricate and revealed significant inconsistencies across their accounts. The bench found both prosecution witnesses unreliable and returned not guilty verdicts on both charges.

R v P – Assault by Beating (Prosecution) | Magistrates’ Court | June 2025

Victoria successfully prosecuted an assault arising from a confrontation at a “Let Women Speak” event. The defendant had attended in support of the event; the complainant attended in support of transgender rights. Victoria conducted a sustained cross-examination of the defendant and a number of associates from a reportedly far-right group who gave evidence on his behalf. The bench found the defendant guilty. (Case reported in the Brighton & Hove News, June 2025: https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/06/19/conspiracy-theorist-guilty-of-shoving-trans-activist/).

Victoria has a broad civil practice and is regularly instructed for both claimants and defendants in disputes in small claims and the fast track in the County Court and in insurance disputes. She has a particular interest in environmental nuisance and is currently instructed in a tree root nuisance matter which has been allocated to the fast track.

Victoria welcomes instructions in regulatory and professional disciplinary law. She developed a strong grasp of these areas while working as a paralegal in the regulatory department at a leading defence firm, defending in SFO and FCA prosecutions. Examples of work include acting for applicants and appellants in licensing appeals.

She is regularly instructed on behalf of the police in the Magistrates’ Court and the Crown Court in civil applications for Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, Sexual Risk Orders, Stalking Protection Orders as well as Closure Orders.

Bar Professional Training Course, City University of London (2022)

Graduate Diploma in Law, City University of London (Distinction) (2021)

BA (Hons.) History, University of Birmingham (First Class ‘Cum Laude’) (2019)

Exhibition Award, Inner Temple (2022)

Scholarship for Academic Excellence, City University of London (2021-2022)

Inner Temple

YFLA

10th November 2025

Financial Crime & Regulatory Specialist and Former Paralegal at Hickman & Rose

Victoria Kaye, instructed by Bedfordshire Police, successfully applied to dismiss an appeal pursuant to s.297 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (“POCA”), securing...

15th September 2025