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Brigid Baillie

0161 817 6377 bbaillie@gcnchambers.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Criminal defence and appeals
Injunctions and breaches of injunction
Prison law
Public law (judicial review)

Position

Brigid is a defence advocate experienced in the most serious types of criminal cases and appeals including murder, serious sexual offences (such as paedophile rings and historical sex allegations), drug importation and terrorism.
Brigid has a particular interest in vulnerable defendants and those with mental health conditions and is skilled at dealing sensitively with demanding clients in those circumstances.

Career

Brigid undertakes judicial review and case stated challenges arising from her criminal defence and mental health practice, along with challenges to anti-social behaviour injunctions, Gangbos and sexual harm prevention orders. Brigid has a longstanding interest in cases with a human rights or cases with a civil liberties dimension which includes all areas of prison law.

Previously a tenant at Cobden House Chambers in Manchester, Brigid was admitted as a solicitor in 1998 and worked for a number of years as a solicitor and partner in a criminal firm in Manchester and gained higher rights in 2005. Brigid was the solicitor in R v Omar Altimimi, the first case involving charges under section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to be tried outside London in 2007.

Languages

English

Memberships

Education

BA, MA