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Jocelyn Gibbs (1972)

Team

Crime

Education

LL.B. (Hons.) University of London

Practice

Jocelyn practises in the area of criminal defence. She represents defendants charged with all serious offences, including murder, heavy fraud, money laundering, rape and other sexual offences, importation and supply of drugs, and confiscation proceedings. She is regularly instructed as a leading junior.

Profile

Jocelyn has represented defendants in a number of high profile cases, including the Cardiff 3 murder trial. That case led to the requirement for accreditation of all solicitors.

Jocelyn also has considerable experience of inquiries. She was counsel in the Scarman Inquiry into the Brixton riots. Jocelyn also chaired a panel inquiry into allegations of abuse at the Nye Bevan Residential Home for the Elderly in Southwark. She was instructed by the London Borough of Southwark in 2001. Jocelyn chaired an inquiry into allegation of racism and harassment surrounding the death of a 10 year old boy. She was instructed by London Borough of Lewisham.

Jocelyn was the joint head of chambers at 1 Grays Inn Square from 1990-97 before joining chambers. She was an Assistant Recorder on the Midlands and Oxford circuit from 1989-96.

Jocelyn has chaired numerous conferences on race and the criminal justice system in London and Birmingham organised by the Bar council, the commission for Racial Equality, the Society of Black Lawyers and Birmingham counsel.

Her interests include family, friends and cookery.

Memberships

Jocelyn has been very much involved with the Bar Council over the years. She has sat on the General Management Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee, and was vice-chair of the Race Relations Committee.

Jocelyn sits on the management committee of the Citizens Advice Bureau based in the Royal Courts of Justice. She is an advisory member, and former director and trustee, of the Caldecott Foundation, and sits on the Legal Services Commission’s Funding Review Committee.

Jocelyn is a former member of the City and East London Family Practitioner’s Committee (dealing with disciplinary hearings) and was closely involved with legal advice centres providing free advice to ethnic minority communities in London, Coventry and Birmingham.

Jocelyn is a founder member of the Society of Black Lawyers and member of the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago.

Example of recent work

R v A - 2 week DWP fraud at Wood Green Crown Court

R v K & Others - 2 month high profile murder known as the faith healer trial at Luton Crown Court

R v P & Others - Multi handed GBH at Wood Green

R v G & Others - 4 week multi handed murder at Blackfriars Crown Court

R v E - GBH at Reading Crown Court

R v A - Armed robbery at Central Criminal Court

R v C - Money Laundering at Snaresbrook Crown Court

R v T - Sexaul Assault at Croydon Crown Court

R v HM & Others - 2 week multi handed robbery at Wood Green Crown Court

R v S - Sexaul Assault at Woolwich Crown Court

R v B & Others multi handed violent disorder at Croydon Crown Court

R v H & 3 Others - Multi handed robbery at Wood Green Crown Court

R v Yan & Others - Leading counsel gets an acquittal in a 4 week high profile people trafficking conspiracy at Croydon Crown Court