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Georgina Blower

Work Department

36 Crime

Position

Georgina specialises in criminal justice and public inquiries and routinely advises on sensitive, high-profile cases. She is a diligent and effective
advocate who combines sound judgement with meticulous preparation.

Georgina is an accredited advocacy trainer for Lincoln’s Inn. She has been
elected twice by members of Lincoln’s Inn to the Bar Representation Committee between 2017-2022.

She currently sits on the editorial and policy board for the monthly journal of the Bar, Counsel Magazine.

Georgina has been commissioned by the Bar Standards Board to write and mark examination questions for the Bar Professional Training Course. She has
previously acted as an examination marker for King’s College London.

Georgina graduated from the University of Keele with a first class law degree and continued this success on the LL.M. at the University of Cambridge, where she was assistant editor of the Cambridge Student Law Review. Georgina has
received awards for academic and legal excellence, including the Professor
Michael Akehurst Award, granted to one academically outstanding student a
year. She was awarded the Sir Thomas More Bursary and Sir Walter Wigglesworth Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn.

While at Cambridge University, Georgina was a researcher for the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, assisting UN Special Rapporteur, Professor Heyns, on his first thematic report for the UN Human Rights Council concerning the right to
life in the context of policing assemblies. Georgina was a member of the Texas
Defender Service panel at Cambridge University and conducted constitutional
law research for several death row appeals, including in the US Supreme Court.
During the summer of 2011, she undertook an internship with the Texas Defender Service in Austin, Texas, assisting attorneys defending capital cases.

Prior to commencing pupillage, Georgina worked as a research assistant in the
criminal law team at the Law Commission of England and Wales, assisting on
reform to the law on insanity and automatism and contempt of court. She also
gained in-house commercial experience whilst working as a legal assistant for
Porsche Cars Great Britain Limited.

Georgina has volunteered for Big Voice London, Liberty, Free Representation
Unit and Toynbee Hall. Before coming to the Bar, Georgina participated extensively in mooting competitions nationally and internationally, culminating in her winning the Inter-Inn Mooting Competition 2009 (for Lincoln’s
Inn) and coaching the Lincoln’s Inn team to the World Championships of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2010 in Washington DC, USA. She has been invited to judge the UK national rounds of the Jessup Competition on many occasions.

Work undertaken:

General Crime: Georgina prosecutes and defends in serious criminal cases, ranging from white collar crime to violent and sexual offences. She is a Grade 3 CPS prosecutor. Georgina has particular experience dealing with vulnerable defendants and witnesses and those with mental health issues, including with the assistance of an intermediary, and has undertaken specialist vulnerable witness training.

Financial Crime: She has been instructed in a number of Serious Fraud Office investigations, including as disclosure counsel in a multi-handed multimillion-pound conspiracy to defraud investigation and as legal professional privilege counsel, jointly selected and instructed by Rolls-Royce, in an international bribery investigation.

Public Inquiries: Georgina has significant experience acting in sensitive and complex public inquiries, where there is a great deal of public scrutiny, having been instructed as junior junior in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, as junior counsel for a key core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry and as senior junior counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. She is experienced in advising on high-profile and voluminous disclosure and redaction exercises, including concerning sensitive and secret documents. Georgina is fully trained in the disclosure software Relativity and Autonomy.

Other Work: Georgina is instructed in parole board and adjudication hearings. She has assisted on various advisory projects internationally, including advising on a multimillion-pound breach of contract case in Gibraltar; advising the Gibraltarian government on the investigation of child abuse allegations and providing guidance for use in the training of police officers, social workers and lawyers; and advising on plea, evidence and sentence for a high-profile false accounting case in Gibraltar.

Georgina accepts instructions on behalf of the government, public bodies and individuals.

Career

Call: 2009.

Grade 3 CPS Prosecutor.

Security vetted.

Memberships

Appointments:

CPS Advocate Panel General Crime (Grade 3)
Accredited advocacy trainer, Lincoln’s Inn
Elected member, Lincoln’s Inn Bar Representation Committee
Member, Policy and Editorial Board, Counsel Magazine

Memberships:

Criminal Bar Association
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Education

Education:

University of Cambridge, LL.M. (2011)
BPP Law School, Bar Vocational Course (2009)
University of Keele, LL.B. Law with Criminology (First Class) (2008)

Scholarships and awards:

Sir Walter Wigglesworth Pupillage Scholarship 2012, Lincoln’s Inn
Continuing Education Fund Award 2010 and 2011, Lincoln’s Inn
Winner, Inter-Inn Mooting Competition 2009 (for Lincoln’s Inn)
UK semi-finalist, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2009 (for Lincoln’s Inn)
Quarter-finalist, Peters & Peters Mooting Competition 2009
Quarter-finalist, Inter-BVC Provider Mooting Competition 2009 (for BPP Law School)
Sir Thomas More Bursary 2008, Lincoln’s Inn
Professor Michael Akehurst Memorial Prize 2008, Keele University
International Human Rights Award 2008, Keele University