Julian Winship

Year of Call: 1995

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Regulation/Compliance, Health & Safety, Inquests & Public Inquiries

Julian Winship handles a wide range of criminal work, with a recent emphasis on violent crime, the possession of firearms, the importation and supply of controlled drugs, sexual offences, including controlling prostitution, and people trafficking.  He has appeared for the defence or prosecution in seven murder trials during the last three years, including two trials at the Central Criminal Court arising out of Operation Trident.

Other case highlights include instruction in a series of three, linked multi-handed murder trials at the Central Criminal Court, together with prosecuting, as led junior counsel, the first murder committed in the Republic of Ireland to be tried in the U.K.

Fraud also forms a significant portion of Julian’s current workload, and here his experience includes prosecuting two multi-handed tax credit frauds on behalf of the RCPO within the last two years.  Last year he led for the defence in an eight-week, £2m Tax Credit fraud, defended in a four-week multi-assailant rape trial and represented one of six defendants in a high profile sex trafficking trial at Southwark Crown Court.  He has recent experience representing mentally disordered defendants charged with grave crimes and those receiving orders under the Mental Health Act. Environmental Protection and Health and Safety prosecutions form the core of his regulatory practice

He is a CPS London Grade 3 Prosecutor, a List B advocate on the Attorney’s General’s unified panel, an approved pupil supervisor and a member of the South Eastern Circuit, Criminal Bar Association, Gray’s Inn Sponsorship Scheme and Amnesty International Lawyers’ Network.  He is co-author of ‘Cross-Contamination: Time to Extend the Abuse of Process Doctrine?’ Crim. L.R. 446.