Education
- Sheffield Hallam University. LLB Hons Law
- Inns of Court School of Law - BVC
Appointments
- CPS Advocates Panel - Cat 4 (R)
- Appointed Crown Counsel for the Falklands
- Assistant Coroner for North Manchester 2018
- Assistant Coroner for Manchester West 2018
Professional Associations
- Health and Safety Lawyers Association
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
- United Kingdom Environmental Lawyers Association
- CoPPA
- Women in the Law UK
- Criminal Bar Association
Profile
Lisa Judge fearlessly defends her clients. She is nationally recognised as being one of the leading barristers in the field of defence health and safety law and regulatory work in this country appearing on behalf of both corporate and individual defendants. She regularly undertakes inquest work on behalf of companies, individuals and organisations. Inquests potentially leave interested parties and witnesses vulnerable to criminal or regulatory investigations.
Her expertise in the overlapping areas of health and safety, crime and professional discipline enables her to protect client’s interests during the inquest as well as provide continuity of representation in any subsequent criminal or regulatory proceedings. She combines her regulatory practice with a heavyweight criminal practice and has an astonishingly high success rate in defending rape and sexual assault allegations. She has represented a number of high-profile companies and individual clients and is recognised particularly for her client care and ability to prepare cases diligently and present them in a manner which is jury friendly.
Notable Cases
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Health and Safety
Lisa Judge represented a company charged with s2 HSWA involving the fatality of an employee. The Prosecution pursued the case on the basis of the failure to undertake a Risk Assessment, the failure to recognise a danger zone and the failure to implement any effective control measures. The Company was medium sized with an £18 million turnover with a previous conviction for a breach of the HSWA. As a consequence of her participation in the inquest, detailed discussions with the client and the preparation of a compelling plea in mitigation the financial penalty imposed was £120k with two years for the company to pay. Instructing solicitors have commented that the result was remarkable in all the circumstances and particularly where the sentence imposed was less than that imposed for the previous non-fatal breach.
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Health and Safety
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Multiple fatalities. Representing the Trust. Guilty Pleas Tendered. The systemic breaches were directly causative of the deaths;
The breaches were symptomatic of a general malaise as to culture, standards and priorities which existed at Stafford Hospital.
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Health and Safety
Hi Quality Steel
Fatality involving employee being injured when a Stihl saw blade exploded. Issues as regards safe systems of work. Inquest and Criminal Proceedings. Guilty Plea. Represented Company. Turnover; Medium
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Health and Safety
Bilfinger
Fatality. Inquest and Criminal Proceedings. Guilty Plea. Contested 4 day Newton hearing. Defence successful. Representing Company. Turnover: Large
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Health and Safety
Bellway Homes
Injuries: Level A/High. Systemic Failings alleged. Represented Company. Guilty Plea. Contested Newton Successful.
s2 HSWA 74
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Health and Safety
Nylacast
Representing Company. Employee fatally injured by engineering process. Safe systems of work and risk assessment issues.
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Health and Safety
Warwick Estates
Fatality. Inquest and Criminal proceedings. Guilty Plea. Tenant fell to death down lift shaft. Systemic failings. Representing Company.Turnover: Medium
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Health and Safety
MH
Elderly pedestrian fatally injured by delivery van. Pedestrian segregation and traffic management issues.
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Health and Safety
R -v- Henry
Health and Safety fatality. Individual Health and Safety Manager prosecuted. Work at Height and Safe systems of work. Acquitted.
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Health and Safety
R -v- CMB
Individual Director Prosecuted for Health and Safety Offences resulting in the death of two contractors. Acquitted of the manslaughter offence. Guilty plea to health and safety breaches.
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Health and Safety
Heap
Fall from height, fatality. Individual prosecuted for pervert the course of justice.
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Health and Safety
Foxhill Equestrian Services
Fatality. Representing the director. Employee crushed when large equestrian jump fell and crushed employee.
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Health and Safety
Little Champs Nursery
Representing company in relation to numerous health and safety offences in regards to the safety of the Nursery environment further to a crush injury having been suffered by one of the children within the Nursery.
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Health and Safety
Icon Process systems
Representing the company, fabricator of water vessels. Work at Height and safe systems of work in issue. Serious injuries.
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Health and Safety
OSS
Work at height. Representing Company as regards failings in relation to the planning of a work at height project. Serious injuries sustained by employee.
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Inquest
Davek
Represented Care Home.
Death in nursing home. Hypoglycemic episode. Question as to care provided by Home and the systems as regards service user reception and acquisition of relevant material. Safe issuing of medication etc.
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Inquest
Andrews
Represented Company.
Death at work. Bale fall onto employee crushing him fatally. Risk assessment and safe systems of work in issue.
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Inquest
Palmer-Hoy
Representing GeoAmey. System failure as regards the care afforded to prisoners suffering from mental-health issues.
Death in custody. Article 2
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Inquest
C Jones
Represented Company.
Represented property management company in regards to tenant falling to his death down a lift shaft.
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Inquest
McManus
Representing Local Authority in regards to the suicide of a young girl released from a psychiatric unit. Multiple agencies involved. Article 2.
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Inquest
Victor
Representing Company.
Death of an employee at work undertaking demolition works. Safe systems of work, Risk Assessments and Method statements in issue. Extremely sensitive due to the nature of the injuries sustained and the very obvious impact upon the family.
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Inquest
Campion
Representing Utilities Company.
Death of a motorcyclist. Utilities company responsible for repairing the road. Historical documentation required to analyse the maintenance in place.
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Inquest
Faulkner
Representing Care Home.
Death in a care Home. Full investigation into the systems in place at the Care Home to investigate legionella bacteria and the resident's exposure to it.
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Inquest
T Singh
Representing Company.
Death at work. Fatal injury caused when pressurised equipment caused high velocity expulsion onto chest of deceased.
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Inquest
P Andrews
Representing Company. Employee crushed to death subsequent to a bale collapse.
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Inquest
Jimmy Palmer-Hayes
Representing GeoAmey.
Death in custody. Management of psychiatric ill-health within the custodial setting. Article 2.
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Inquest
S Hethrington
Representing Individual.
Tractor involved in the crushing to death of a farm worker. Traffic/pedestrian segregation.
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Inquest
E Mitchinson
Representing Individual General Practitioner.
In relation to his involvement in the clinical care of the deceased.
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Inquest
Kurylowicz
Representing the Coroner.
s13 Coroners Act Application to reopen inquest.
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Inquest
T Jones
Representing GeoAmey.
Death in Custody. Psychiatric treatment provided to prisoner and whether appropriate review of medical records undertaken. Article 2
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Inquest
C Hunt
Representing GeoAmey.
Death in Custody. Article 2
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Inquest
PC Bill Parker
Representing Utilities Company.
Death of serving police officer after bridge collapsed during Cumbrian floods.
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Advisory Work
Greater Manchester Police Instructed Lisa Judge in relation to a High-profile prisoner (now deceased) who had refused to disclose the whereabouts of the body of a child murdered a number of decades ago.
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Advisory Work
Lisa Judge is instructed by the Home Office to undertake a review of seized material to determine whether privilege attaches to material gathered during the execution of search warrants.
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Advisory Work
A high-profile solicitor arrested for an offence of perverting the Course of Public Justice. Represented at the police station. No charges pursued.
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Trading Standards
R v Ward
Largest trading standards prosecution in the UK. Defence Counsel for individual Director. Acquitted
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Trading Standards
Moguland
Represented prosecuting authority. Importation of dangerous Hoverboards from China. Guilty pleas tendered.
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Trading Standards
Zenith Staybright Ltd (ENTU PLC)
Representing individual director in regards to numerous trading standards and fraud offences. Acquitted. Sale of windows to vulnerable members of the public. Multi million pound fraud alleged.
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Fire Safety
Britannia
Represented Company and Director.
Criminal Proceedings. Listed for Trial. Resolved by way of acceptable plea. Turnover: Small.
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Food Safety
FoodCo Ltd
Representing the company in regards to enforcement proceedings brought as a result of animal excrement and general food safety offences within the restaurant unit at Birmingham New Street.
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Environmental
United Utilities
Numerous cases of environmental offending to include fresh and waste water. Evidence requiring tidal modelling and contested expert evidence. Newton Hearing. Turnover: Very Large
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Environmental
EA v R Davies
Major fire of waste recycling plant. Representing Director. Satisfactory negotiation of limited plea. No sentence of imprisonment imposed.
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Environmental
Holt
Individual Director prosecuted for numerous large-scale fires at Plastic Recycling facility. Suspended sentence imposed.
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Environmental
Williams
Individual Director prosecuted for numerous large-scale fires at a waste treatment facility. Ongoing.
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Murder
R v Wilson
Mother and Two brothers indicted for murder. Junior Counsel for sole defendant acquitted of murder and all other charges
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Murder
R v Powell
Junior Defence counsel. Multi-handed Conspiracy to murder. Acquitted.
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Rape
Lisa Judge represented Royal Northern College of Music student charged with rape of a fellow student but who was acquitted after trial. The Prosecution case was heavily reliant upon apparent confessions made over social networking between the Defendant and the complainant. The Defendant asserted that all sexual activity between them was consensual.
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Rape
Young
Defence counsel Rape. Acquitted
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Rape
Operation Advance
Defence counsel First Cold Case Review case acquittal. rape.
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Rape
Knott
Rape. Defence counsel Client request. Aquitted.
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Rape
Knight
Rape - Client request. Acquitted after trial
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Private Client
C Evans - Rape
Acted on appeal.
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Private Client
A Johnson
Sexual activity with a child.
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Private Client
C Killen.
Sexual activity. Successfully negotiated reduced plea such that suspended sentence imposed
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Private Client
D Ward
Assault. Successful in efforts to ensure that the complainant, another high-profile celebrity, was fundamentally undermined when giving evidence such that no costs were ordered and sentence imposed was minimal.
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Private Client
J McEachran Assault
Professional sportsman. Acquitted.
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Private Client
A Tinkler
Assault. Acquitted.
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Private Client
M Ferrucci
Rape. Acquitted.
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Private Client
A Keyte
Police Officer. Assault. Acquitted.
What the directories say
Regularly defends individuals and companies in major health and safety cases brought by various regulatory bodies. Her health and safety practice benefits from her criminal law work. "An experienced, pragmatic practitioner." "She has a commercially minded approach."
Chambers and Partners, 2019
Capable practitioner with a strong reputation in the health and safety space as part of her thriving criminal and regulatory practice. She is regularly instructed on behalf of both large companies and individuals. She is known for her experience of handling cases involving sexual offences. "Very sound judgement."
Chambers and Partners, 2019
'A very effective communicator who quickly gets to grips with a case.’
Legal 500, 2018
Regularly defends individuals and companies in major health and safety cases brought by various regulatory bodies. Her health and safety practice benefits from her criminal law work. "Very efficient and very good at handling witnesses."
Chambers and Partners, 2018
Capable practitioner with a strong reputation in the health and safety space alongside her thriving criminal and regulatory practice. She is regularly instructed on behalf of both large companies and individuals. She is particularly known for her experience of handling cases involving sexual offences. "She is sharp and focused with a straight-talking, no-nonsense approach."
Chambers and Partners, 2018
‘Recommended for sexual offences cases.’
Legal 500, 2017
Regularly defends individuals and companies in major health and safety cases brought by various regulatory bodies. "She's a practical operator and a good tactician." "Lisa Judge does quite a bit of health and safety work and I highly rate her."
Chambers UK, 2017
Capable practitioner with a strong reputation in the health and safety space alongside her thriving criminal and regulatory practice. She is particularly known for her experience of handling cases involving sexual offences. "She really fights hard for her clients." "She's highly persuasive and a good person to have on your side."
Chambers UK, 2017
She has a strong track record in representing defendants in serious sexual offences cases'
Legal 500, 2015
One of the leading health and safety advocates on the Northern Circuit. She combines her regulatory work with a heavyweight criminal practice, and is noted by instructing solicitors for her highly skilled advocacy. "She is one of the best jury advocates around." "She has a no-nonsense approach and gets down to the heart of the matter."
Chambers UK, 2015
Handles a wide range of criminal law matters. She specialises in rape and sexual offences. "She is an excellent advocate; she is down to earth and very approachable, and has good client care skills."
Chambers UK, 2015
‘Prepares cases meticulously.’
Legal 500, 2014
"is focused, gets to the heart of a case and does a good job for her clients."
Chambers UK, 2013
'good manner with clients.'
Chambers UK 2012
' has an excellent reputation and is recommended'
Legal 500, 2011
'a QC-level jury advocate at half the price of a silk'
Legal 500. 2010
'continues to show herself to be an outstanding performer....admired for her "commanding respect of the court'
Chambers UK 2010
'has a strong junior practice in health, safety and regulation.'
Legal 500, 2009
‘Wins praise.’
Chambers UK, 2009
‘Very competent’
Legal 500, 2008
‘An excellent client manner....Diligent and well respected’
Chambers UK, 2008
