Joanna Warwick

Called to the Bar:2004

  • Overview

    An exceptionally bright and focused junior with experience across the full gamut of Chambers' expertise, Joanna Warwick is a credit to any case.  She returned to practice in 2020 after a career break.

    Crime (including Corporate & Financial Crime)

    Joanna has had a strong criminal practice, both prosecuting and defending, in a wide spectrum of offences.  She has appeared in Magistrates’ Courts, Crown Courts and the Court of Appeal with experience in all aspects of trial preparation, advice and trial presentation.  Joanna prides herself on her attention to detail and her thorough approach to her cases.   

    Defending, she has been instructed alone and as a led junior in cases of complex fact and law including murder, serious sexual assault and perverting the course of justice.  She has also acted in complex, multiple count conspiracies to defraud and money laundering cases, where issues of confiscation arose.  Joanna also has experience defending in the financial regulatory forum 

    Joanna has prosecuted a wide variety of criminal offences and, prior to a career break, was a Grade 2 listed Prosecutor. As a led junior, she has been involved in a number of substantial cases including murder, serious violent crime and drug trafficking offences.  She was also instructed as part of the prosecution team in two significant Counter Terrorism prosecutions. 

    Regulatory

    Following on from her Criminal practice, Joanna developed her regulatory practice and appeared in a number of Professional Tribunals.  Having defended in the General Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the General Dental Council and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Joanna’s practice developed predominantly in the preparation and presentation of cases on behalf of Regulatory bodies, most notably the NMC and GDC. 

    Joanna furthered her regulatory experience working closely with FieldFisher on a project where she acted as part of a team devoted to advising on charges, evidence and legal issues that arose in existing NMC investigations and prosecutions.

    Joanna was also regularly instructed to advise and prosecute for the Security Industry Authority in the private prosecution of individuals and companies for breaches of the Security Industry Act.

    Private Prosecution

    Joanna has an abundance of experience prosecuting various charges including those relating to intellectual property, for various Trading Standards.

    She was regularly instructed by the Security Industry Authority in the private prosecution of individuals and companies for breaches of the Security Industry Act. 

    Public Law

    Joanna is building upon her criminal and regulatory practice and progressing within the area of Public Law, namely Inquiries and Inquests.  She continues to be interested in the interface that the public law has with criminal and regulatory proceedings. She has the skillset to manage all strands of parallel proceedings.

    She was instructed to assist Anne Whyte KC in the conduct of The Whyte Review, a review commissioned to consider culture, welfare, safeguarding and complaint handling within British Gymnastics following allegations of mistreatment raised by gymnasts in 2020.

    Recently Joanna has supported teams in respect of the Forbury Gardens Reading Terrorist Attack, and the Infected Blood Inquiry.

    Education & Awards

    - 1st class LLB Hons UEA (2002)

    - BPP Law School (2004) Outstanding

    - Mills & Reeve award for highest academic achievement (2002)

    - Lincolns Inn Thomas More Scholar

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