Georgina Jenkins

A wealth of experience beyond her call, Georgina is the junior of choice for leaders and solicitors alike.

Overview 

Georgina has experience in a broad range of serious criminal offences, including offences against the person, drugs offences, firearms offences and sexual offences. She has also represented defendants in terrorism related matters. Georgina has a busy general crime practice and is regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in the Crown Court, Youth Court and Magistrates’ Court.

Experience

Georgina was involved in the defence of an individual charged with murder, when the trial collapsed after a key witness was found to have provided false evidence. Georgina was also involved in the defence of a man accused of murder, along with 13 other defendants, resulting from a conspiracy to steal cannabis plants. Georgina has also acted as noting junior for the prosecution during multiple murder trials at the Central Criminal Court. 

Georgina has prosecuted and defended individuals for serious sexual assaults, as sole counsel and junior counsel. Georgina has also been involved in a number of high-profile rape and serious sexual assault cases, and represented individuals across the full gamut of sexual offences. Georgina has also dealt with ancillary matters such as Sexual Harm Prevention Orders. 

Georgina regularly appears in the Crown Court in serious and general crime matters. Recently, Georgina represented a man who was acquitted after trial, after Georgina successfully applied to exclude the CCTV evidence because the prosecution had failed to disclosure the underlying CCTV footage to the defence. 

Georgina regularly represents individuals charged with weapons offences. Recently, Georgina made a successful application of no case to answer in a case where she represented a man accused of possession of a bladed article. The application was based on the prosecution’s failure to prove the defendant had in fact possessed the bladed article.  Georgina also made a successful application to dismiss a case on behalf of a defendant who was charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear and possession of a prohibited weapon. Georgina successfully argued that the prosecution failed to prove that the item in question was designed or adapted in a way required by the statute. 

In another case, Georgina successfully made a submission of no case to answer whilst representing a man charged with having possession of an offensive weapon. Georgina persuaded the judge that the prosecution had failed to prove an essential element of the offence, as the article was not an offensive weapon per se, and they had failed to prove that the defendant carried it with an intention to cause injury.

Georgina regularly represents vulnerable individuals who have little experience of the criminal justice system. Georgina represented a woman who was charged with an offence of threatening with a bladed article in a private place and threats to kill of her daughter, in circumstances where the offences were recorded. Following a guilty plea, Georgina successfully persuaded the judge to impose a conditional discharge, by addressing him on the nature of the offence, and the former good character of the defendant.  In another case, Georgina represented a man who had pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. Georgina made submissions on the defendant’s elements of limited culpability and significant mitigation and was able to persuade the judge to reduce the sentence from a starting point of 4.5 years to a 24-month suspended sentence. 

Georgina also has experience of organised crime included issues that have engaged the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act.