Georgina Gibbs

Practice
Specialising in all areas of heavy crime in London and across the South Eastern Circuit, Georgina Gibbs is instructed to both defend and prosecute in cases involving sexual abuse, serious violence, death by dangerous driving, child abuse/neglect, large scale violent disorder and fraudulent offences.

Georgina has particular expertise in dealing with vulnerable or juvenile witnesses and defendants, and always endeavors to apply herself to every case with meticulous preparation.

Over the past decade in practice, she has been regularly instructed as junior counsel, both defending and prosecuting, in the following types of cases: fraud, murder, manslaughter, historical sexual abuse, abuse of residents in care home, conspiracy to commit armed robbery & organized football violent disorder.

Notable cases

R v W
2011 Cambridge Crown Court
Successfully defended a juvenile at trial charged with arson of a village post office causing damage in excess of £500,000.

1. BBC
2. The Cambridge Evening News

R v M
2011 Cambridge Crown Court
Prosecuted trial involving the rarely advanced defence of ‘sexsomnia,’ involving the commission of sexual acts by the sleeping perpetrator upon a bed partner. Called and cross-examined experts in the field, and subsequently wrote an article about the condition. Click here to view.

R v B
2011 Ipswich Crown Court - Led by Joanne Eley
Successfully defended a step-father accused of sexually abusing his young step-daughter through her childhood and into adulthood.  He accepted before the jury that they had had a consensual sexual relationship for nearly a decade, even throughout her own marriage, once she became an adult but denied any sexual activity with her when she was a child.  He was also acquitted of abusing his step-daughter’s own daughter, when she was a young child, during the same trial. 

R –v-.M
2010 Derby Crown Court
The Defendant care worker of 20 years in practice was unanimously acquitted of alleged assault on her disabled patient after a trial in which two prosecution witnesses, who were themselves professional carers, stated that they had clearly observed the assault.

R -v- James Cameron - Led by William Carter
2010 Norwich Crown Court
6 week murder & conspiracy to commit s.18 trial, in which the prosecution asserted that the defendant we represented had put his son up to committing the latter offence, which in the event, went beyond s.18 & led to murder. 

1. BBC

R –v- Alex Brader
2010 Luton Crown Court
Obtained Suspended Sentence Order for a Police Community Support Worker, upon his conviction for perverting the course of justice. It was alleged that he drunk-drove his car off the road, set it alight, and thereafter claimed he was not responsible and that someone had stolen his car.

R –v- V
2010 Croydon Crown Court.
Achieved a police caution for the father defendant, post P.C.M.H. in the Crown Court, who was initially charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. It was alleged that he had broken his young child’s fingers with an implement during the course of admonishing him for not doing his homework.

R –v- Deborah Atkinson
2010 Cambridge Crown Court - Led by Stephen Spence
Instructed as counsel (before applying for leading counsel) to defend the main care worker, in a fraud approaching one million pounds, in which the Defendant and the other carer co-defendants had stolen money from the elderly, very wealthy victim’s bank accounts, changed her will in their favour and sought to buy her flat at a significant undervalue. 

1. Daily Mail

R –v- B
2009 Cambridge Crown Court
Defended a mother accused of over 22 counts of cruelty and abuse of her own children during a 4 week trial.
Involved cross-examining children as young as 7 through an intermediary.

1. Daily Mail
2. The Sun

R –v- Day
2009 Norwich Crown Court - Led by Andrew Shaw.
Successful prosecution of a series of serious sexual offences against children spanning three decades.

1. BBC
2. The Daily Mirror

R –v- Terence Smith
2008 Nottingham Crown Court - Led by John Farmer
Defendant was unanimously acquitted of a drug-related murder.

1. Northampton Chronicle

R –v- Kerr
2008 Peterborough Crown Court
Successfully defended juvenile defendant charged with offence of intending to endanger the safety of railway passengers contrary to s.32 Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (maximum sentence life imprisonment), during a trial in which the Defendant denied he was responsible for lifting a 60kg slab of concrete across a railway line.  The defendant had already pleaded guilty to the considerably less serious offence of endangering the safety of passengers, without intent, in respect of which the maximum sentence was only 2 years’ imprisonment.

1. The Sun
2. Daily Mail

R –v- B
2008 – 2009
Cambridge & Norwich Crown Courts, Court of Appeal - Led by Roger Harrison
Defendant charged with very serious sexual abuse of natural daughter, step-son & cousin spanning recent & historical periods of time.  Convicted following 1st trial, but convictions quashed following appeal against conviction following complicated submissions on the admission of bad character & how the statutory provisions of the CJA 2003 were to be interpreted.  Jury hung following 2nd trial & Not Guilty verdicts formally entered following a jury not being able to reach a verdict following a 3rd trial.

R v L
2007 Wood Green Crown Court
Instructed to represent juvenile client (was only counsel instructed for defendant before application for silk, alone, was granted), who was charged with adult defendants with charges arising out of incident in which the victim’s anus was forcibly penetrated by a dog set upon him by the defendants & thereafter abused, during the course of which his hair was set alight.  The defendant was particularly highly suggestible, as was his mother, who had been his appropriate adult in interview, in which he made significant admissions.  The experts reports obtained at a very early stage were the basis upon which Alastair Malcolm Q.C. successfully argued the exclusion of the interviews at trial & then further successfully resisted a prosecution terminating appeal in the Court of Appeal.

R -v- Afonso
2004 Court of Appeal
Successfully appeared for the appellant Afonso [2004] EWCA Crim23A2.  Guideline sentencing authority for the proposition that an immediate custodial sentence was not inevitable & the disposal of D.T.T.O. may be appropriate for vulnerable addict offenders, convicted upon a guilty plea, of the supply of Class A drugs to undercover police officers, supplying only to fund their own drug habit, when not heavily convicted.

1. Web case compendium (PDF)

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