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18 RED LION COURT
LONDON
EC4A 3EB
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Jennifer Dempster KC
Position
Jenni Dempster KC is a very experienced and extremely able advocate whose practice primarily involves defending in cases involving Murder & Manslaughter, serious Sexual Offences, Road Traffic Offences, Drug Offences and Fraud.
She is instructed regularly in high-profile and sensitive cases and has, over nearly 30 years, built up a loyal following of solicitors. She is known as a remarkably tenacious, diligent and extremely hard-working advocate. She deals regularly with difficult, unusual and complex cases and is currently holding instructions in a number of serious cases due for trial in 2022.
Jenni has a special interest in cases involving young defendants and witnesses.
She is very well respected within the profession and often represents members of the legal profession in various proceedings.
She is committed to providing representation under public funding and frequently appears pro bono in the Court of Appeal.
Career
Call: 1993
Silk: 2018
Recorder of the Crown Court: 2018
Memberships
South East Circuit
CBA
Education
Edinburgh and London School of Economics LLB (Hons).
Certificate of Attendance – Diploma in Forensic Medicine and Science course (2001)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jennifer Dempster KC – Red Lion Chambers ‘Jenni is an eloquent and tenacious advocate. She is meticulous with her preparation of cases and knows them inside-out. Jenni also has an excellent bedside manner with lay clients and is able to immediately put them at ease with her legal knowledge and knowledge of the case.’
Red Lion Chambers is one of the strongest criminal sets in London, with an ‘enormous breadth of talent from top to bottom’. Gillian Jones KC, ‘one of the finest barristers practicing in criminal law‘, recently acted as defence counsel in a case involving significant evidential complexity, including in relation to the potential mental health issues of the defendant, who was convicted of murder having stabbed to death a lone woman at a bus stop. Jennifer Dempster KC, ‘an eloquent and tenacious advocate‘, represented a man who was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility in the first televised sentencing in England and Wales. Turning to the set’s juniors, Edward Renvoize prosecuted two men, who recieved prison sentences of twelve and fifteen years imprisonment for a home invasion robbery of two-time Tour de France green jersey winner Mark Cavendish, in which two Richard Mille watches with a combined value of £700,000 were stolen.