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Year of Call 2000

Abbe Arnold

abbearnold@millenniumchambers.com

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Expertise

Abbe Arnold is a highly experienced barrister with a reputation for meticulous case preparation and presentation. She is a specialist trial advocate; acting as both Leading counsel and senior Junior counsel. She is exceptionally articulate with a strong court presence. Approachable in manner, she is quick to gain the trust of her clients and engages the court effectively. Abbe understands the importance of an overall strategy. At the outset of each case, she forensically identifies the issues and builds a roadmap to achieve the optimal outcome for her professional client.

Abbe’s practice consists of serious and complex criminal cases; with a focus on fraud, money laundering, drugs conspiracies and serious violence.

Areas of Practice

  • Conspiracy and Serious Organised Crime:
    • Firearms offences,
    • Internet crime
    • Conspiracy to Money launder
    • Excise and tax fraud
    • Intellectual property crime (including counterfeit goods)
    • Armed robbery and cash-in-transit attacks
    • Conspiracy to Supply and Import Class A drugs
    • Counterfeit currency
    • Human trafficking
  • White-Collar Crime:
    • Money Laundering: Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA); concealing the origins of illegally obtained money
    • False accounting
    • Tax evasion
    • Bribery and Corruption
  • Crimes Against the Person:
    • Murder (homicide), manslaughter, infanticide
    • Common assault and Battery: Physical harm or threat of harm, harassment, offensive weapon, wounding/ABH/GBH
    • Sexual Offences: Rape, sexual assault, assault by penetration, sexual exploitation, child sex abuse and trafficking, extreme pornography, disclosing private sexual images without consent (‘revenge pornography’), indecent images of children
    • Human trafficking: Modern slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour
    • Kidnap: False imprisonment, child abduction
  • Drug Offences:
    • Trafficking
    • Supply and distribution of illegal substances
    • Importation
    • Possession
  • Firearms Offences:
    • Possession of Firearms and shotguns without a certificate
    • Manufacture, sale, transfer of firearms, conversion
    • Possession of articles for conversion of imitation firearms
    • Possession of prohibited weapons
    • Criminal use of firearms, acquisition and possession of firearms and air weapons by children and young people
  • Crimes Against Property:
    • Embezzlement fraud: Deception for personal gain
    • Aggravated Burglary
    • Arson or arson with intent to endanger life
    • Burglary: Unlawful entry with intent to commit a crime
    • Theft: stealing, robbery
  • Fraud:
    • Benefit Fraud
    • Credit Card Fraud
    • Investment Fraud
    • Money Laundering
    • Mortgage Fraud
  • Traffic Offences:
    • All driving offences, violations of traffic laws and regulations.

Recent Notable Cases:

Fraud and Money laundering

R v D, 2025 – Leading Counsel for multi handed Money Laundering and Drugs Conspiracy, prosecution case was the defendant was the book keeper of an Organised Crime Group involved in 140 Kilos of Class A drugs.

R v A, 2024 – Leading Counsel in a Multi Handed 10’s millions Money laundering highly sophisticated, huge and international money laundering enterprise. Case involved a criminal network, laundering money for OCG operating at international.

R v H, 2025 – Fraud involving allegations of misappropriation of funds from an estate when defendant had Power of Attorney.

R v A & Others, 2023 – Prosecution Counsel in a 6 defendant sophisticated confidence fraud.

R v B, 2024 – Counsel defending in a multi defendant Money laundering and drug case.

Drugs

R v G & Others, 2023-4 – Junior Counsel in a 6 months, multi-handed, Drugs’ Conspiracy, involving a sophisticated Organised Crime Network. Represented a high-profile Premier League Football player alleged to have been responsible for multiple kilos of class A drugs.

R v P & Others, 2023 – Defence counsel in multi-handed drugs’ conspiracy involving multiple kilos of Class A.

R v A & Others, 2023 – Defence Counsel in a sophisticated street-dealing operation for an Organised Crime network.

R v R, 2024 – Defendant faced multiple counts of drug importation.

R v B, 2024 – Represented a wife implicated in a multi kilo organisation. Through legal arguments, pivotal evidence was excluded. She remained on money laundering but was acquitted by the jury.
R v DS & Others, 2024 – Multi-handed, multiple kilo drugs’ conspiracy. By exposing failures in disclosure, the prosecution was compelled to offered no evidence mid-way through trial.

Serious Violence

R v K & Others, 2023 – Kidnap and torture case of a vulnerable male by London Gang members. Represented the only Defendant to be acquitted.

R v P, 2024 – Armed robbery, in which a successful argument to exclude identification evidence led to the prosecution offering no evidence.

R v C-W, 2024 – Multi-handed armed robbery, involving a targeted and planned attack on a casino and nightclub.

R v T, 2024 – Arson with intent to endanger life.

R v G, 2025 – Violent Disorder and wounding case, in which the complainant was stabbed with a zombie knife.

Professional Memberships:

  • Criminal Bar association

Grade 3 CPS Prosecution Advocate and on the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel.

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