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Madeleine Wolfe
Position
Madeleine Wolfe is a specialist in defending and prosecuting complex and highly sensitive criminal offences. She is instructed in serious high profile matters including murder, child rape, gang rape, child sexual exploitation and human slavery and trafficking.
She is a CPS grade 4, Rape and Serious Sexual Offences prosecutor.
Career
Year of call 1998
Memberships
- CPS Advocates Panel, Grade 4 (Rape & Serious Sexual Offences prosecutor)
- Criminal Bar Association
- South Eastern Circuit
- Midlands Circuit
Education
- BVC: Very Competent
- CPS: Pass
- Birmingham University: II.I
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Madeleine Wolfe –2 Hare Court ‘Madeleine is a tenacious advocate. Her ability to adhere to the restrictions of s28 cross-examination but at the same time fully advance crucial elements of a client’s defence as well as highlight limitations or contradictions in the prosecution case is remarkable.’
2 Hare Court is widely praised as one of the ‘premier sets for serious and general crime’ with ‘superb barristers from pupils to silks’. Gudrun Young KC, ‘brilliant with strategy and with detail‘, recently defended , a woman with no previous convictions due to start an MA in theology in Cambridge, charged with murdering her fiance after running him over in her car following an argument between the pair at a party in Cheshire; she was convicted and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 18 years. Madeleine Wolfe is a sexual offences specialist with particular expertise in cases involving children and vulnerable adults, while Sarah Przybylska is a standout prosecutor with recent experience handling high-profile murder and sex trafficking cases, including several at the Old Bailey. Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC is widely known as ‘one of the most gifted barristers at the Bar’ – her broad practice covers complex sexual offences cases – she recently defended a counsellor accused by a patient of sexual assault, with the trial turning on detailed analysis of certain therapeutic methods and whether these can reasonably be considered sexual assault.