Julian Winship

Year of Call: 1995

Julian Winship handles a wide range of criminal work, with a recent emphasis on violent crime, the possession of firearms, the importation and supply of controlled drugs, sexual offences and people trafficking. He has appeared for the defence or prosecution in seven murder trials during the last two years, including two trials at the Central Criminal Court arising out of Operation Trident.

Other case highlights include instruction in a series of three, linked multi-handed murder trials at the Central Criminal Court, together with prosecuting, as led junior counsel, the first murder committed in the Republic of Ireland to be tried in the U.K.

Fraud also forms a significant portion of Julian’s current workload, and here his experience includes prosecuting two multi-handed tax credit frauds on behalf of the RCPO within the last two years. He has experience of defending a wide range of financial or acquisitive offences. He has recent experience representing mentally disordered defendants charged with grave crimes and those receiving orders under the Mental Health Act.

He is a CPS London, Grade 3 Prosecutor, an approved pupil supervisor and a member of the South Eastern Circuit, Criminal Bar Association, Gray’s Inn Sponsorship Scheme and Amnesty International Lawyers’ Network. He is co-author of ‘Cross-Contamination: Time to Extend the Abuse of Process Doctrine?’ Crim. L.R. 446.