Elisabeth Bussey-Jones
CALLED TO BAR: 1992
INN OF COURT: Inner Temple
EDUCATION: B Jurisprudence (1989), LLB (1990)
PRACTICE AREAS: Criminal Law

• Criminal Bar Association
• Western Circuit
• Direct Public Access: authorised to accept direct access work directly from a member of the public or organisation

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Profile

Elisabeth began her career in Western Australia where she worked for a city firm in commercial litigation, insolvency, personal injuries law as well as conducting some criminal cases. She moved to the United Kingdom and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors. During this period, she began to specialise in criminal work. She gained useful experience in conducting numerous cases from the stage of police station interview through to trial and appearing regularly in the Magistrates’ Courts, as well as preparing several substantial cases such a VAT fraud and murder case.

Elisabeth was admitted to the Bar in 1997. Since joining the Bar, she has worked exclusively in the area of Criminal Law. She has a busy Crown Court practice balanced between prosecution and defence work and is a Grade 4 Prosecutor.

She has acted in all types of criminal cases, ranging from serious sexual offences and child abuse cases through to all types of violent offences, offences of dishonesty and trafficking cases and offences relating to drugs. She is regularly instructed in cases involving vulnerable/child witnesses and cases involving multiple Defendants and the use of interpreters. 

Elisabeth has been instructed to conduct a number of cases and operations by the Serious Crime Division of the CPS Casework Directorate and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Those cases have involved conspiracies relating to sham marriages and immigration fraud (joint prosecutions with the Border Agency, one of the first and largest operation of its kind in the UK), mortgage frauds, international money laundering, and large scale drug importation and distribution. 

She has appeared many times in the Court of Appeal, the most notable perhaps being the case of R v Considine and Another which involved a leading Judgment on indeterminate sentences.

Elisabeth lives in Hampshire with her family and spends all spare time watching her sons play cricket!

She speaks Spanish and Swedish.

Recent cases include:

• R v Timothy, Turner, Bouma and De Geus: Prosecuting. Lewes Crown Court sitting at Hove: Importation of £10 million pounds worth of cannabis resin. Caught by Customs Officers to the south of the Isle of Wight. Drugs concealed in hidden compartments on a 56ft yacht. Defendants recieved total sentence of 33 1/2 years.
• R v Daniel Bell. Defending one defendant in relation to allegations of sexual offences. Cases involved other Defendant who were found to be connected to or part of International Paedophile Ring. One of the most significant cases of its kind. Defendant represented was acquitted of all of the most serious cases he faced. Appeal and sentence pending.
• Operation Troy: Defending 10 individuals all charged with involvement in an operation involving the supply of class A drugs to undercover police officers.