Kate Chidgey > 25 Bedford Row > London, England > Barrister Profile
25 Bedford Row Offices
LONDON
WC1R 4HD
England
- Set Profile
- Go to...
Kate Chidgey
Position
Kate practices in serious crime and public law. She is an intelligent and tenacious advocate who is renowned for her disarming and personable approach.
Career
Called 2006.
Kate is entirely committed to the defence of all those she represents, which has resulted in success at every level, including at the High Court and Court of Appeal. Her calm and assured manner ensures that she inspires confidence in all who work with her; from those encountering the criminal justice system for the first time, to the most experienced of professional clients.
She is well-equipped to deal with both complex legal challenges and difficult witnesses. Her experience in dealing with cases involving vulnerable witnesses and defendants have led to her frequent instruction in high-profile cases involving serious sexual and human trafficking offences.
Kate is instructed alone, as a led junior and as a leading junior.
Kate is currently instructed as Junior Counsel to the Grenfell Inquiry.
Memberships
- Inner Temple
- Criminal Bar Association
- Member of the Female Fraud Forum (FFF)
- British Association for Sport and Law (BASL)
Education
Qualifications
- Philosophy and Theology MA (Oxon)
- CPE
- BVC
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Kate Chidgey – 25 Bedford Row ‘Kate is an exceptional advocate with a careful and understated manner which belies a real tenacity. She is fiercely intelligent and unafraid of raising difficult points of law. She is outstanding in her ability to cross-examine young and vulnerable witnesses and her speeches are carefully presented and delivered reasonably. She has a great future ahead of her.’
25 Bedford Row is a powerhouse criminal defence set with ‘talented barristers at every level of call’. George Carter-Stephenson KC has recently acted in several high-profile cases, including R v McSweeney, with the defendant sentenced in December 2022 to life imprisonment with a minimum of 38 years for the sexual assault and murder of Zara Aleena. Paul Mendelle KC represented a man acquitted of both murder and manslaughter of a man who featured in a BBC Panorama documentary on gang violence in 2007 – two other defendants were convicted. Matthew Radstone is involved in the first prosecution brought under the Political Parties, Elections, and Referendums Act 2000, following alleged electoral offences by a former Conservative MP said to have received illegitimate political donations from the defendant, against a backdrop of the disappearance of money said to be a loan for the redevelopment of Northampton Town’s stadium Sixfields. Kate Chidgey successfully represented a female nurse working at the high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, who was acquitted on five counts of causing or inciting a person with a mental disorder impeding choice to engage in sexual activity – the defence case was that the male resident had planted her blood in his underwear with a used sanitary product extracted from a bin.