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Alice Trotter

Kingsley Napley
I am an associate in the criminal litigation team and act on a wide range of white collar, international and general crime cases. I joined Kingsley Napley in 2018 and qualified as a solicitor in 2023.

I currently act for suspects and witness in respect of internal investigations, as well as investigation brought by the SFO and the NCA. I have undertaken advisory work in relation legal professional privilege and LPP reviews.

I have a particular interest in the international dimension of criminal cases and advise individuals in respect of cross-border investigations.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2023

Experience

  • Kingsley Napley (01/09/2023 - Present)
  • Paralegal (Family team) at Kingsley Napley (May 2018 - 31/08/2021)

Membership

  • YFLA
  • DELF

Qualifications

  • Licence French, English and American Law (2014)
  • MA Comparative Law (2016)
  • LLM International Law and International Relations (2016)

Education

  • University Paris Nanterre (Paris X) (2014, 2016)
  • University of Kent (2016)

1 Contributions by Alice Trotter

Privilege against self-incrimination in UK law: scope, limits and statutory carve‑outs across criminal, civil, regulatory, investigatory, inquest and cross‑border proceedings
PRACTICE NOTES
Privilege against self-incrimination in UK law: scope, limits and statutory carve‑outs across criminal, civil, regulatory, investigatory, inquest and cross‑border proceedings
Background The idea of the privilege against self-incrimination, often treated as a single safeguard, in truth stems from several distinct common law protections for defendants and witnesses, each aimed at shielding citizens from misuse of powers by those who investigate crime. Each reflects concern for the protection of citizens against abuse of powers by those investigating crimes in law. Those varied protections can be broadly grouped as: a privilege against self-incrimination for witnesses in criminal, civil, or other non-judicial investigative proceedings (including coroners' inquests) the entitlement of a defendant not to give evidence at trial; and a suspect’s right to remain silent during a pre-trial criminal inquiry As outlined below, the privilege is not absolute, and statute has intruded upon these protections in several ways. The privilege against self-incrimination at common law The privilege against self-incrimination is a long-established common law protection. The principle developed at common law as a reaction to prisoners being tortured into providing self-incriminating answers that would result in their conviction in the Star Chamber. It was summarised in 1942 in Blunt v Park Lane Hotel Ltd: 'The rule is that no one is bound to answer any question if the answer thereto would, in the opinion'...
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