Jacinta Stringer
Called: 1999 Areas of Law: Crime
Jacinta grew up in Liverpool where she attended Merchant Taylors’ school before heading down to London and university. She was called to the Bar in 1999 after achieving a Very Competent grading in her Bar finals. She completed her pupillage at 23 Essex Street and became a tenant at the chambers of Helen Grinrod QC. She has now moved to join Cobden House in Manchester, while remaining a door tenant in London.
She practises primarily in Crime and has gained extensive experience of prosecuting and defending during numerous trials in the Crown Court, dealing with offences such as attempted murder, rape, indecent assault, sexual activity with a child, robbery, deception, fraud, s.18 and s.20, serious racially aggravated cases and conspiracy to supply of class A drugs. She has also appeared successfully in the Court of Appeal R v OLAWO [2008] EWCA Crim 528.
Most recently she has appeared as sole counsel for the first defendant at the Old Bailey in an attempted murder trial, where the allegations related to extreme gang violence in south east London.