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Marie-Elizabeth Bailey

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About

Marie-Elizabeth is an associate within the Dispute Resolution team. Her practice straddles regulatory enforcement, corporate crime, and public inquiries.

She specialises in crisis management, incident and emergency response, internal investigations, corporate and director liability, regulatory investigations and criminal prosecutions, coroner’s inquests, and public inquiries. Her practice covers regulatory crime, including health and safety investigations, and financial crime such as bribery and corruption, serious fraud, and money laundering.

She has front line experience of advising clients on large scale and sensitive safety incidents and corporate crime investigations and prosecutions, including those by the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency the Police and Local Authorities. Marie-Elizabeth also advises on Coroner’s inquests where she advises companies on their role as interested persons.

Marie-Elizabeth also has experience as part of the Solicitor to the Inquiry team on the UK Covid-19 Inquiry chaired by Baroness Heather Hallet, as a solicitor on multiple modules of the Inquiry.

Experience

  • UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry: Solicitor on multiple modules as part of the Solicitor to the Inquiry team on the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry.
  • Energy sector client: Providing incident response and on-going advice to an energy sector client in relation to a corporate manslaughter investigation by the Police and a health and safety investigation by the HSE following a multi-fatality incident.
  • Corporate clients: Advising corporate clients in relation to multi-fatality accidents, including conducting internal investigations and advising on engagement with investigators and regulators.
  • Private client: Advising a company and two directors on a criminal investigation by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, including two interviews under caution and advising on compliance and enforcement measures imposed by the GLAA.
  • Various companies: Advising various companies on Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Health and Safety policy, governance and compliance.
  • Manufacturing client: Advising a major manufacturing client in response to a criminal investigation by the Health and Safety Executive.

Credentials

  • Admitted as solicitor: England & Wales (2020)

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