Jessie Mond Wedd

Jessie Mond Wedd is an experienced advocate with a broad practice encompassing serious crime, financial regulation and family law. She has extensive experience prosecuting and defending in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts and has been regularly instructed by government departments and prosecuting authorities. Her criminal practice has included complex, multi-handed fraud, serious violence, conspiracy, drug offences and cases involving vulnerable witnesses and sensitive expert evidence. She has also appeared in the Court of Appeal. Alongside her criminal work, Jessie has had a family practice, representing parties in public and private Children Act proceedings.

In recent years, Jessie has developed a particular focus on regulatory and financial enforcement work, drawing on her combined experience of complex disclosure, market-based evidence and serious financial investigations. She brings rigorous analytical skills, sound judgment and measured advocacy to cases involving financial and regulatory crime.

Jessie has significant experience in large-scale financial crime and regulatory investigations. At the Serious Fraud Office (2015-2016) she was instructed as disclosure counsel in a complex, multi-handed conspiracy to defraud investigation at the pre-charge stage, advising on and managing substantial volumes of material in a legally and factually intricate case.

Jessie was on secondment to Kingsley Napley LLP (August 2016 – February 2017, and following maternity leave, March 2018 – August 2019) as an advocate on behalf of the Health and Care Professions Council. She prepared and presented cases before Fitness to Practise Panels, drafting charges and written advice and delivering opening and closing submissions in hearings concerning a wide range of allegations, including sexual misconduct, dishonesty and violence. This work required careful handling of professional regulation, reputational risk and vulnerable witnesses.

Jessie has been instructed by the Financial Conduct Authority since 2020 in a complex multi-handed fraudulent trading case. Initially as disclosure counsel and then promoted to third junior counsel in she has been involved in a long-running investigation and a six-month jury trial. Her work has involved strategic oversight of disclosure in a document-heavy case, detailed analysis of trading data and financial evidence, and close collaboration with investigators and leading counsel on issues of case theory, disclosure compliance and trial preparation.

Jessie is also a committed environmentalist. She completed an LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at SOAS (part-time, 2019–2022), receiving the Specialism Prize in her year. She is a Director of Lawyers for Nature, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the Rights of Nature.