Vast experience in large-scale historical abuse trials and inquiries.
Brigid Baillie is a defence advocate experienced in the most serious types of criminal cases and appeals including murder, serious sexual offences (such as paedophile rings and historical sex allegations), drug importation and terrorism. She is recommended as a leading junior in crime in The Legal 500 2016 for her "vast experience in large-scale historical abuse trials and inquiries".
Brigid has a particular interest in vulnerable defendants and those with mental health conditions and is skilled at dealing sensitively with demanding clients in those circumstances. Brigid also undertakes judicial review and case stated challenges arising from her criminal defence and mental health practice, along with challenges to anti-social behaviour injunctions, Gangbos and sexual harm prevention orders.
In 2024 members of the Bangladeshi judiciary and senior lawyers from Bangladesh consulted Brigid on sentencing guidelines as part of the process of devising sentencing guidelines in Bangladesh. Brigid explained the system in England and Wales and how it works in practice.
Previously a tenant at Cobden House Chambers in Manchester, Brigid was admitted as a solicitor in 1998 and worked for a number of years as a solicitor and partner in a criminal firm in Manchester and gained higher rights in 2005. Brigid was the solicitor in R v Omar Altimimi, the first case involving charges under section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to be tried outside London in 2007.
Brigid has comprehensive criminal defence experience and undertakes a full range of work in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal. She has been instructed in a number of serious crime cases and appeals including murder, sex offences and drug importation. Brigid is regularly instructed in cases involving violence and offences against the person, firearms offences, fraud, arson, public order, immigration identity fraud and challenging anti social behaviour orders and sexual harm prevention orders. Brigid also has experience of defending gang injunctions (“Gangbos”).
Brigid is regularly instructed to provide written advices and representation in appeals against sentence and conviction, particularly in relation to sexual offences.
Brigid has comprehensive criminal defence experience and undertakes a full range of work in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal. She has been instructed in a number of serious crime cases and appeals including murder, sex offences and drug importation. Brigid is regularly instructed in cases involving violence and offences against the person, firearms offences, fraud, arson, public order, immigration identity fraud and challenging anti social behaviour orders and sexual harm prevention orders. Brigid also has experience of defending gang injunctions (“Gangbos”).
Brigid is regularly instructed to provide written advices and representation in appeals against sentence and conviction, particularly in relation to sexual offences.
Brigid has a longstanding interest in cases with a human rights or cases with a civil liberties dimension which includes all areas of prison law. She has a particular interest in cases involving mental health aspects.
Brigid is an experienced criminal law practitioner skilled at dealing sensitively with vulnerable clients particularly in difficult circumstances, and has built up a strong practice of cases involving people with mental health difficulties. She is keen to develop her practice in the direction of inquests and is actively interested in developments in the inquest and prison system and in rights of detainees.
Brigid also undertakes judicial review and case stated challenges arising from her criminal defence and mental health practice, along with challenges to anti-social behaviour injunctions, Gangbos and sexual harm prevention orders.
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