Bianca Brasoveanu

Prior to her call to the Bar, Miss Brasoveanu has been working at The Johnson Partnership solicitors for ten years, she started as a case worker and police station representative where she accrued extensive first-hand experience dealing with complex cases. In that role, she developed an approachable and reassuring mannerism with clients with whom she builds an excellent rapport. She then qualified as a solicitor and then duty solicitor in 2020 when she also obtained Higher Rights of Audience.

As a Crown Court Advocate, she has accrued substantial trial experience predominantly as junior counsel but also being led in serious and complex cases including murders. She routinely deals with all kinds of offences: large drugs conspiracies, multi-handed fraud trials, serious violence and firearms. She regularly attends the Court of Appeal and appeared in several cited cases, most recently in the case of Rex v Roderick [2024] where she acted for the defendant who was said to be head of a large multi-million class A drug conspiracy. The sentence obtained on his behalf was then reviewed by the Attorney General.

She has recently defended in the case of Rex v Haythorne[2025] which gained significant attention from the media (BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian and others) as the first case of its kind to be heard in Sheffield Crown Court. The matter concerned the August 2024 riots and the widespread violence reported in Rotherham.

Whilst her expertise and primary focus remain in criminal law, she is now seeking to develop a complementary practice in regulatory and inquiry work following her transfer to the Bar.

Expertise

Notable Crime cases

Rex v Kennerdale [2025] Nottingham Crown Court

Defendant was indicted with aggravated burglary, domestic burglary and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was forensically linked to the property in question. Following a number of legal arguments including bad character, hearsay, res gestae, section 8 and a PII hearing arising out of unused evidence in the form of police intelligence, the evidence in question was disclosed and put before the jury. The defendant was acquitted of all counts.

Rex v Rahman [2024] Sheffield Crown Court

Defendant pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Supply Class A. Having been sentenced to a term of immediate imprisonment, the sentence was successfully appealed and substituted with a term of suspended imprisonment.

Rex v Daubney [2024] Nottingham Crown Court

Defendant pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a girl 13 to 15 to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity, engaging in sexual communication with a child and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child between 2018 and 2022. Submission regarding culpability based on psychological evidence were accepted and a suspended sentence imposed.

Rex v Cox [2024] Nottingham Crown Court

Possession with intent to supply class A, on a starting point of 5 years, the defendant was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment suspended.

Rex v Eremenko & Others [2023] Nottingham Crown Court

Instructed as junior counsel in a large fraud conspiracy prosecuted by trading standards which was tried for a number of months.

Rex v Linul [2023] Lincoln Crown Court

Importation of 25 kg of heroin: sentenced to six years imprisonment.

Rex v Farrell [2023] Nottingham Crown Court

Exceptional Circumstances found on a possession of prohibited firearm, sentenced to suspended sentence.

Rex v Gillies [2023] Nottingham Crown Court

Basis of plea on numerous counts of supply class A and B drugs in large quantities accepted as short of duress based on the psychological evidence obtained. Sentenced to suspended sentence.

R v Johnson [2023] Nottingham Crown Court

Defendant acquitted of blackmail.

R v Thompson [2022] Nottingham Crown Court

Defendant acquitted of section 18 wounding.

R v Ellis [2022] Nottingham Crown Court

Exceptional Circumstances found on a possession of prohibited firearm, sentenced to suspended sentence.

R v Shehu [2022] Nottingham Crown Court

Defendant found not dangerous having been indicted with sexual assault and kidnap.

R v Middleton [2021] Nottingham Crown Court

7 years minimum sentence for supply of Class A not imposed, exceptional circumstances found.

Nottingham Trent University, International Law With Hons, First Class (2016)

LLM and Legal Practice Course (2019)

Winner of the Nottinghamshire Law Society Memorial Essay Competition 2021.

Third place of the Nottingham Law School’s 50^th Anniversary Student Essay Competition about the development of the European Law on free movement of people from 1964 to 2014.