Bindmans LLP

Criminal Defence and Extradition.

Associate, Criminal Defence and Extradition.

Jude has a strong reputation for outstanding work in a case range including: murder, firearms, drugs supply and importation, money-laundering and large-scale confiscation, fraud, white-collar/ business crime, perverting course of justice, immigration offences, large-scale protest/public disorder and serious youth crime.

Jude is particularly regarded for her tactical skills and her skill and experience in dealing with controversial and difficult clients and cases involving young people. She inspires huge client confidence and is known as an assertive, dedicated and fearless lawyer, with very considerable ability to negotiate the complexities of criminal litigation and practice. She works on both legally-aided and privately-funded cases.

Jude has also been involved in a number of media-related projects arising from the disturbances of August 2011 and regularly assists TV researchers on criminal justice matters. She has also carried out consultancy work for Kids Company and is involved in research relating to the position of young people in other criminal jurisdictions.

Jude qualified as a solicitor after a career in community-based work. For a number of years, she worked with the young people on the North London Broadwater Farm Estate who were charged after the 1985 riot. She subsequently established and ran a community project in Islington for former prisoners. Jude has maintained her connections with the North London communities where she previously worked and is involved on a voluntary basis with a number of organisations. She has also presented training courses in youth justice, has run sessions with young people in schools and exclusion projects and provided legal advice to drugs organisations.

Jude trained at Bindmans LLP, qualifiying in 1994. Following this, she did freelance work before joining Hodge Jones and Allen in 1995. Jude returned to Bindmans in 1999.

LCCSA.