Areas of Expertise

• Personal Injury

  Georgina’s career began and for several years continued in London and her personal injury practice has been built up over 19 years of experience across the spectrum of personal injury claims, ranging from industrial accidents to public liability and everything in between.

  Georgina is frequently successful in achieving findings of lack of credibility and fraud and was at the forefront of the emerging fundamental dishonesty case law (Menary v Darnton, Unreported, HHJ Hughes QC at Portsmouth County Court, (cited in  London Organising Committee of the Olympic And Paralympic Games (LOCOG) v Sinfield [2018] EWHC 51 (QB)).

• Animals & Equine

  Georgina is a ‘go to’ junior for equine claims engaging the Animals Act, negligence, and occupier’s/employer’s liability.  Georgina was brought up in a rural environment and equestrianism and country pursuits are her passion. She is a keen and competent horsewoman and brings personal knowledge and experience to equine claims.  She has dealt with all manner of claims ranging from every day riding school accidents, to accidents at international events.  She frequently deals with very high value and complex claims involving life changing injuries.

  She also deals very regularly with other animal-related accidents such as disfiguring dog bites and livestock related crushing accidents.

  Georgina also deals with contractual disputes, for example those arising from the buying and selling of horses and livestock, involving issues of consumer rights and misrepresentation.

  Georgina also deals with professional claims involving allegations of farriery and veterinary negligence etc.

  Georgina was appointed to the British Equestrian Federation in 2016 as a judicial panel member, a role in which she determines appeals on anti-doping and competition selection decisions.

• Clinical Negligence

  Georgina has extensive experience of fatal and catastrophic life changing claims.

  She has acted for protected parties in brain injury claims, children in negligent delivery claims, patients in negligent surgery actions, delayed diagnosis claims and the victims of failed cosmetic and reversal procedures etc.

  Georgina is valued for putting her lay clients at ease in difficult circumstances.

• Disease

  Georgina represents both claimants and defendants on a broad range of disease claims such as HAVS, asbestosis and mesothelioma, occupational asthma, dust exposure, chlorine exposure, leptospirosis and work-related upper limb disorders. She is currently junior to Jayne Adams KC in various occupational asthma claims.

• Professional Negligence

  Georgina has contributed to Atkin’s Court Forms on professional negligence and is experienced in defending disciplinary actions and both defending and acting for the claimant in a wide variety of professional negligence actions ranging from legal to farriery malpractice.

• Inquests

  Over the years, Georgina has been instructed in many inquests both as counsel for the bereaved family and from a protective position representing interested parties.

  Her experience covers fatal road traffic collisions, drug-related deaths, clinical care related deaths, fatal falls in care homes, suicide, fatal accidents at work and more.

  She has met with challenges over the years in this fraught environment and has successfully cross-examined forensic road traffic collision experts, pathologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists and the like.

About

• Appointments

  • Deputy District Judge
  • Direct Access
  • Judicial panel member, British Equestrian Federation

• Professional Memberships

  • Personal Injuries Bar Association
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers

• Qualifications

  • London Faculty of Laws
  • LLB Law (First Class Hons), University College, London
  • BVC (Very Competent), University College, London