JUNIOR PROFILE
Georgina Hirsch

Georgina Hirsch

UK Bar 2026

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Ranked in 3 practice areas

About

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Practice Areas

Georgina is ranked for both employment law and telecommunications regulation. She also has a growing tax practice, as well as a wider civil litigation practice, including re director’s duties.

Georgina is also an experienced mediator, and has a developing practice doing Investigations for corporate clients.

She covers the full range of employment and industrial law, and offers a particularly unique insight on trade union related issues, having acted for both sides and at a particularly senior and strategic level for a major trade union, and been counsel on UKSC collective bargaining case of Kostal v Dunkley.

Her telecoms work ranges from wayleaves cases to challenges to regulatory decisions, and competition law compliance.

Career

Her pre-Bar experience as a solicitor working in industry, and then as Legal Director of Unite the Union, as well as in private practice, gives her a unique insight for her advice and advocacy work.

Georgina is a calm and confident advocate who provides proactive and practical support.

She is also:

· an accredited advocacy and ethics trainer for Gray’s Inn

· a member of the Government Legal Department B panel

· and is currently a member of the Institute of Directors’ Commission to establish a Code of Conduct for Directors.

Professional Memberships

ELA, ILS, ELBA, ALBA, RBA.

Publications

She regularly writes for ELA and other publications.

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Telecommunications - London (Bar)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Georgina Hirsch is a highly capable barrister who regularly appears in cases before the Court of Appeal and CAT regarding telecommunications regulatory matters. She provides expert advice on the new Electronic Communications Code.

Employment - London (Bar)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Georgina Hirsch is frequently called upon by both claimants and respondents to handle a broad range of employment disputes. Her past experience as an in-house solicitor at a union contributes significantly to her expertise in industrial relations matters.

Industrial Relations - All Circuits

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Georgina Hirsch is an experienced barrister who leverages her previous career as a solicitor to assist trade unions in complex industrial relations work in all manner of courts, including the Supreme Court. She is a member of the Attorney General's A Panel.

Strengths

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  • Georgina Hirsch gives a detailed legal analysis but with a commercial edge, no doubt informed by her time working as a solicitor in private practice and at a union.

    EmploymentUK Bar
  • Georgina is responsive, very thorough and client-friendly.

    EmploymentUK Bar
  • Georgina Hirsch is pragmatic and with a real flair in cross-examination. She is incredibly helpful behind the scenes and impressive on her feet.

    EmploymentUK Bar

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All Circuits

London (Bar)

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