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 four 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 three years.

In 2008 he led for the defence in an eight-week, £2 million 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. In 2009 he defended in a £6 million Ponzi-style investment fraud and represented a defendant indicted for importing automatic weapons and hollow-point ammunition. Last year he led for the defence in a multi-handed immigration fraud lasting for twelve weeks. 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. An example is his role in the prosecution of 3 companies, a prominent publishers, a window cleaning cradle maintenance firm and a large insurance company, for a number of offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, arising out of an accident at the offices of the publishers, when the pins attaching a window cleaning cradle to the roof of the building failed, resulting in the death of a man.

He is a CPS London Grade 3 Prosecutor, a List B advocate on the Attorney 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?' [2003] Crim. L.R. 446.

Julian is registered to accept direct access instructions.