Gilly Bradbury
Gilly is currently a Senior Knowledge Lawyer of Commercial Disputes at Addleshaw Goddard. Previously, Gilly was a Knowledge Development Lawyer in BCLP’s Financial Services Disputes & Investigations and White Collar Crime practices, based in London.
Gilly is an experienced professional support lawyer with extensive individual criminal defence expertise. She joined BCLP from Lexis Nexis, where she had developed their suite of practical guidance content on their LexisPSL Corporate Crime module.
Before becoming a knowledge lawyer, Gilly was a defence litigator and represented individuals in a range of white collar crime and asset recovery matters brought by prosecutors such as the FCA, NCA, CPS and SFO.
Prior to this, Gilly worked in the public prosecutor's asset recovery unit, where she was responsible for enforcing multi-million pound restraint and confiscation orders.
Practice Areas
Panels
- Consulting Editorial Board
- Specialist Panel
Qualified Year
- 2011
Experience
- LexisNexis (2016 - 2021)
- Byrne and Partners LLP (2011 - 2016)
- CPS/RCPO (2007 - 2011)
Qualification
- LLB, LLM (2000-2004)
Education
- University of Southampton (2000-2004)
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PRACTICE NOTES
POCA 2002 civil (non-conviction) recovery of cryptoassets (ECCTA 2023): search, seizure, wallet freezing, detention, forfeiture/destruction and conversion in the magistrates' courts (England and Wales)
Following a series of court decisions and influential commentary, it is now widely accepted that, under English law, cryptoassets are neither things in possession nor things in action; instead, they comprise a distinct third form of property as data objects. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002) establishes, in broad terms, two routes for the realisation of criminal proceeds:
a conviction-based restraint and confiscation regime under POCA 2002, Pt 2, criminal in character and largely managed by the criminal courts under the Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 (CrimPR 2025), SI 2025/909; and
a non-conviction based asset recovery regime under POCA 2002, Pt 5, operating within the civil jurisdiction.
In England and Wales, at a high level, this results in:
proceedings before the magistrates’ court, in its civil jurisdiction, for the freezing and forfeiture of (i) cash, (ii) high value personal property, and (iii) money in accounts held with financial institutions (FIs); and
proceedings before the High Court for a civil recovery order (CRO).
Although certain powers within these frameworks have been used to recover cryptoassets (see...
Corporate Crime
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