Eva Niculiu

Eva is a barrister at Three Raymond Buildings, specialising in crime and associated areas including extradition, licensing, and regulatory law.

She represents defendants across the full range of criminal offences, and has experience representing young people and dealing with young and vulnerable witnesses. She has acted as led junior counsel for the defence in complex fraud trials, and in a murder appeal against conviction. She also prosecutes on behalf of the CPS and a range of other agencies including Transport for London and the Security Industry Authority.

In extradition cases, Eva appears on behalf of requested persons both at first instance and on appeal in the High Court.

She acts for the Metropolitan Police Service in applications for civil preventative orders such as sexual harm prevention orders, sexual risk orders, and closure orders. Accordingly she is also well placed to advise and represent defendants facing such applications.

Eva's other work includes legal professional privilege reviews for HMRC and the Metropolitan Police.

Before coming to the Bar, Eva gained an MPhil from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. Her dissertation examined the principles of moral and criminal responsibility and their application to psychopaths.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2013

Membership

  • Criminal Bar Association
  • Young Fraud Lawyers' Association
  • Defence Extradition Lawyers' Forum

Education

  • MPhil (Cantab)'Criminology
  • MA (Cantab)'Law

2 Contributions by Eva Niculiu

Interlocutory prosecution appeals under CJA 2003 Part 9: adverse Crown Court rulings—conditions precedent, procedure and appellate tests (England and Wales)
PRACTICE NOTES
Interlocutory prosecution appeals under CJA 2003 Part 9: adverse Crown Court rulings—conditions precedent, procedure and appellate tests (England and Wales)
Prosecutor’s appeal against adverse rulings This Practice Note addresses the prosecution’s entitlement, under Part 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003), to challenge unfavourable rulings made by the Crown Court in trials on indictment. By virtue of CJA 2003, ss 57–74 (Part 9), the prosecution may appeal an adverse ruling of a Crown Court judge relating to a trial on indictment. The appeal is to the Court of Appeal and may proceed only with leave from the trial judge or the Court of Appeal. Such appeals fall into two principal categories: the general right to appeal a Crown Court ruling, and the right to appeal evidential rulings that materially weaken the prosecution case—the relevant provisions are not yet in force This Practice Note concerns only the first category of appeal. The prosecution has no right to appeal a defendant’s acquittal in the Crown Court. The purpose of enabling appeals against Crown Court rulings is to provide the prosecution with an interlocutory remedy where a trial judge’s decision would prejudice its case and, if the ruling is shown to be erroneous and the defendant...
Corporate Crime
Termination and disposal of criminal cases: from investigation outcomes to discontinuance, stays, acquittals, convictions and special bars (England and Wales)
PRACTICE NOTES
Termination and disposal of criminal cases: from investigation outcomes to discontinuance, stays, acquittals, convictions and special bars (England and Wales)
What amounts to the conclusion of criminal proceedings? Most criminal matters conclude either with an acquittal after trial, or with conviction and sentence following a trial or a guilty plea. There are, however, several other ways proceedings can end. They sit in the following categories: Without charge, at the end of a criminal investigation a no further action decision an alternative out-of-court disposal, for example a simple or conditional caution Without a verdict, after proceedings have begun discontinuance of proceedings by the DPP (magistrates’ court and Crown Court) or by another public prosecutor (Crown Court) — available before a summary trial begins (magistrates’ court), or before the indictment is preferred (Crown Court) withdrawal of a charge or summons by the prosecution (magistrates’ court only) — available any time before adjudication with the court’s leave dismissal of the information for the prosecutor’s non-appearance (magistrates’ court only) — available at trial dismissal of charges (Crown Court) — available before arraignment the quashing of an indictment (in the Crown...
Corporate Crime
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