Alison Pople KC

Call 1993

Silk 2015

"Alison Pople KC is frankly outstanding. She is incredibly bright and a formidable advocate."
Chambers UK Bar Guide 2025 Financial Crime

"Alison is one of the best at the bar. She has great experience, is tactical and down to earth. She is my first choice always ."
Chambers & Partners 2026 Financial Crime

"Alison is a class act, she has an easy but confidence - instilling manner and exceptional legal and strategic knowledge."
Legal 500 2026 Business & Regulatory crime

"Alison is an absolute pleasure to work with. Her meticulous preparation and advocacy style put her up there with the very best. She is a great tactician and leads the team in a very collegiate way. She commands the utmost trust from clients."
Legal 500 2025 Business and Regulatory Crime (Including Global Investigations)

"Alison is one of a kind – a hugely able and intelligent silk who works incredibly hard, yet has a wonderfully witty, unflappable and approachable manner that makes her a true pleasure to work with and joy to watch in court. Her tactical nous and feel for what will land well with a tribunal is remarkably astute and her cross-examination skills are adroit."
Legal 500 2025 Fraud: Crime

"Alison Pople KC is fantastic and clients love her. She is clear, emotionally alert to what clients need and a delight to work with."
Chambers High Net Worth UK Bar Guide 2025

"Alison is an absolute class act, really clear-headed and calm."
Chambers & Partners 2025 Financial Crime

"She is very clear in her advice, willing to evolve in the case as it develops, as well as being a team player and a joy to work with."
Chambers & Partners 2025 Financial Crime

Alison represents individuals and corporates across a full range of financial misconduct investigations undertaken by SFO, HMRC, FCA, CMA and other specialist investigation bodies and in proceedings brought by SFO, CPS, FCA, CMA, and Insolvency Service. Alison regularly advises corporate and individual clients facing investigation or proceedings overseas where there is a UK nexus. She has a wealth of experience in conducting internal investigations on behalf of a corporate client.

Her specialist subject matters include fraud, bribery, insider dealing, criminal and civil cartel investigations, tax evasion, corporate ‘failure to prevent’ offences, Proceeds of Crime Act offences, and breaches of Money Laundering Regulations.

She is also experienced in addressing niche regulatory issues raised by a particular business sector; examples of her prior advisory work include the regulation of medicines and healthcare products and the regulation of assessment of varying rates of landfill tax.

Alison is currently representing a defendant charged in the Entain proceedings, arising from the investigation into the provision of gambling services in Turkey. She is acting for a HNW individual facing criminal proceedings following a seven-year HMRC investigation into an alleged VAT fraud.

Alison advises banking and other corporate clients subject to investigation for criminal or regulatory offences and has had multiple successes in recent years in which those investigations were closed without criminal charges or regulatory enforcement action being taken.

Alison advised a senior individual in the long-running ENRC investigation into alleged foreign bribery and corruption culminating in the successful closure of SFO investigation without charge.

Alison represented one of three successful Respondents in the first successful challenge to an Unexplained Wealth Order since the introduction of legislation in 2018 via the Criminal Finances Act 2017.

Alison represented a corporate client in the shortest (1 year) Deferred Prosecution Agreement approved to date between the SFO and an airline services company in respect of three offences of failure to prevent bribery.

Alison successfully represented an individual charged with the criminal cartel offence by the OFT (now CMA) under the Enterprise Act 2002, as well as successfully avoiding prosecution for the cartel offence in two other separate cases.

Alison has over 30 years’ experience in the field and has been involved in the most high-profile or complex criminal cases throughout her career, including representing a defendant in the nine month “phone hacking” trial at the Central Criminal Court.

In 2024, Alison was awarded ‘Crime Silk of the Year’ at the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards. This year, Alison has been nominated in the Legal 500 Bar Awards in the category of Corporate Crime Silk of the Year (2026).