Natalie Matranga
Solicitor
Switchboard: 01782 205000
24Hr Emergency No: 07699 726180
Practice areas
Natalie studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University before completing her legal training with the College of Law. Natalie joined the Criminal Department at Beswicks in 2009 having previously worked in Oxford and Plymouth.
Natalie specialises in Criminal Defence and represents clients on a daily basis at police stations and Magistrates’ Courts, including Youth Courts. She has extensive experience in representing clients in relation to offences ranging from road traffic matters through to serious sexual offences, drugs offences and murder.
Natalie also specialises in Prison Law, assisting clients in making applications to the Parole Board and Lifer Boards, as well as representing clients at prison disciplinary hearings. She has written for Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners.
Specialisms
- Magistrates’ Court advocacy
- Crown Court bail applications
- Representing suspects at the police station
- Drugs offences
- Serious sexual offences
- Motoring law, including offences of speeding, excess alcohol and cases involving accidents resulting in injury and death
- ‘Totting up’ cases where motorists are at risk of being disqualified from driving
- Prison law, including parole applications, lifer review hearings, recategorisation, judicial reviews and human rights issues.
Notable cases
- Acted for a defendant accused of murder in a complex case involving ‘shaken baby syndrome’ where the defendant was acquitted of murder at trial.
- Represented a number of clients arrested in connection with ‘Operation Orr’, an international police investigation targeting on-line child sex abuse.
- Acted for a defendant accused of a series of high value armed robberies.
- Represented a client in connection with the large scale organised supply of Class A drugs and offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act involving the transfer of large sums of money from the UK to Jamaica.
- Successfully challenged numerous motoring offences.
Personal
- Listening to music and watching live bands
- Walking
- Theatre and literature
