Jennifer Brenton

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Bribery and Corruption Civil Confiscation Crime Defence Drugs Employment Financial Crime & Fraud Housing Insurance Landlord & Tenant Licensing Personal Injury Professional Negligence Property Prosecution Road Traffic & Motoring Sexual Offences Violent Crime

Introduction

Jennifer is a committed junior barrister with significant experience in fraud and white collar crime, regulatory offences and licensing law. She accepts instructions for both Prosecution and Defence work. She regularly provides written advice and is recognised for her concise analysis and pragmatism. As an advocate, she is clear and direct.

Expertise: contract; property; wills and probate; insolvency; partnerships; negligence – including personal injury, employers’ liability and occupiers’ liability – general crime. Jennifer joined Thomas Bingham Chambers as a Third Six Pupil in September 2014, before being taken on as a tenant in December 2014. She continues to develop her core practice areas within Chambers as well as expanding into other civil fields. She believes in thorough preparation and takes a meticulous approach to all her cases, whether civil or criminal. She has the benefit of substantial advocacy experience, developed through criminal work, and strong legal research and case preparation skills, derived from her civil work which has been consistently recognised as far exceeding her level of experience. Civil: Jennifer went directly from the Bar course into pupillage at a highly ranked common-law set. She trained under a senior civil practitioner (now full-time district judge) in the above civil practice areas. She undertook substantial devilling work as well as pro bono work from the outset, with particular emphasis on unfair dismissal and employment discrimination claims, sale of goods disputes, partnership agreements, insolvency proceedings and estate agency contracts. She was also heavily involved with the property group, working on multi-track trust disputes and applications before the Land Registration division of the Property Chamber. Since getting onto her feet in April 2014, she has appeared in the county courts in a wide variety of civil claims as well as providing written advice and pleadings in contractual and tortious disputes. Criminal: Jennifer spent a large proportion of her second six prosecuting across the Magistrates’ Courts. She was in court every day running back-to-back trials as well as presenting legal applications across the spectrum of criminal law. Since coming to Thomas Bingham Chambers, she now exclusively defends. She is regularly instructed to appear in both Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. She has covered a broad range of criminal offences; from private road traffic matters and common assaults to burglary and high-level drugs offences. She has already received Crown Court trial instructions in her own name.

University of Edinburgh: MA (hons) 2.1; College of Law: GDL – Distinction; City Law School: BPTC – Outstanding (8th in year of 400+ students).

  Awards & Prizes

Inner Temple BPTC Exhibition Award

City Law School – Stephen Seabrooke Memorial Prize (for highest marks in year in Advocacy and Criminal Litigation)

Inter-Inn Mooting Competition (2013) – Winner, Inner Temple 

Qualifications

University of Edinburgh: MA (hons) 

College of Law: GDL – Distinction

City Law School: BPTC – Outstanding