Martine Taube

Martine qualified as a Solicitor in 1989. Since qualification she has specialised in criminal defence.

In her career Martine has handled a wide range of serious and complex criminal cases first as a litigator and later as an advocate including murder, robbery, large-scale drug supply, modern slavery and human trafficking. She has defended in high profile anti-terrorism prosecutions involving planned attacks on the UK mainland and cases involving support for international armed conflict. She was also instructed by the US Federal Defender’s office to undertake factual research in the UK and provide legal advice in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, said to have participated in the ‘9/11’ attack on New York.

She has conducted highly complex fraud cases many of which have had an international dimension. She was instructed by BAE Systems to assist an employee during a major bribery investigation conducted by the SFO. She also successfully defended two defendants in a multi-handed, high value tax investigation by HMRC involving the ‘Residency’ regulations and the admissibility of documents supplied by Swiss banks pursuant to the Schengen Agreement.

Martine has successfully employed experts to compliment the defence team in a wide range of different areas including ballistics, DNA and blood analysis, pathology, psychiatry, neurosurgery and forensic accounting.