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Victoria Curtis
Victoria has over a decade’s experience in litigation with particular expertise in commercial crimes, civil fraud litigation, proceeds of crime, regulatory and professional disciplinary proceedings.
Areas of practice
- Complex Investigations
Victoria represents clients in both criminal and civil proceedings before courts at all levels in Germany. She is equally skilled and experienced acting as sole or lead counsel, or in collaboration with senior legal professionals from leading chambers across Germany.
Victoria has appeared as counsel representing the German Bar Association and the German Lawyers’ Association in high-profile cases. She has also been appointed to assist both the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) and the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht). Additionally, she serves as a senior prosecutor on the prosecution panel for the German Federal Public Prosecutor General in serious financial crime matters.
Victoria holds a double degree in Law and Commerce (Finance) from the University of Auckland and a Master of Public and International Law with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. She completed an Arthur Watts Fellowship internship at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London and was awarded an Inner Temple Pegasus Scholarship.
Victoria is co-chair of the Advocacy Committee and a member of the Diversity Committee of the German Bar Association. She also serves on the board of the German Asian Lawyers Association and is co-chair of its Litigation Committee.
News & Insights
What is the difference between aiding and abetting?
REGULATORY PROCEEDINGS & LITIGATION
So what is the difference between aiding and abetting? Aiding, as the names suggests, is helping. To abet means to urge on, instigate, or encourage. In any criminal case a defendant can either be charged as a principal or as a party to the offence.
Rae v Commissioner of Police [2023] NZSC 156
CASE SUMMARY
Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision to decline to recall a judgment in a civil proceeding? The Supreme Court addressed this issue, among others, in an “unusual, combined leave-and-appeal hearing”.
