Victoria Kaye

Planning, Public and Environmental

Victoria is developing expertise in planning work. Examples of her recent work include advising a local community group in a proposed judicial review relating to Environmental Impact Assessments. She is regularly instructed in planning enforcement matters, including for a well-known supermarket chain. She recently dissuaded a council from continuing a prosecution, notwithstanding the fact that an enforcement notice had been issued and criminal proceedings started.

She has previously advised on challenges to refusals of lawful development certificates and has assisted in planning enforcement matters concerning a well-known supermarket chain.

She regularly contributes to Chambers’ environmental blog,  commenting on recent developments in environmental law: https://6pumpcourt.co.uk/category/environmental-blog/.

Inquests & Inquiries

Victoria welcomes instructions in inquests and inquiries. She is currently instructed in an inquest touching upon the death of a woman who was found deceased having recently been released from section under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Crime & Police Law

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
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. She has particular interest in proceeds of crime, and is frequently instructed to advise and represent police forces in cash forfeiture, AFO and POCA hearings.

Victoria is a Grade 1 CPS Prosecutor and conducts criminal cases for both prosecution and defence. Judges have remarked on her “focused, persuasive and fearless” advocacy.

R v W – Assault by Beating
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
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 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
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 defendant was found guilty. (Case reported in the Brighton & Hove News, June 2025: https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/06/19/conspiracy-theorist-guilty-of-shoving-trans-activist/).

Civil

Victoria is developing a broad civil practice. She is regularly instructed for both claimants and defendants in disputes in small claims and the fast track. 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.

She is regularly instructed by police forces, local authorities and private clients in licensing matters, including taxi and firearms licensing revocations.

Education

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)

Awards

Exhibition Award, Inner Temple (2022)

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

Memberships

Inner Temple

YFLA

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