Georgina Wolfe

Georgina specialises in inquests, inquiries, police and public law, human rights, civil liberties and malfeasance.

Georgina is on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel.

She is instructed in high-profile inquiries including the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Dawn Sturgess Inquiry and Undercover Policing Inquiry. She acts as Counsel to the Inquest and for individuals, police forces, political parties, government agencies, the IOPC and prisons to healthcare providers, social services and families.

Georgina appeared as junior counsel for the Rt Hon Boris Johnson in Cabinet Office v Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry [2023] EWHC 1702 (Admin), which considered the disclosure of WhatsApp messages to a public inquiry. Since then, she has appeared in some of the most significant cases for police and public authorities, including Chief Constable of Sussex Police & CPS v XGY and R (L1T FM Holdings and LetterOne Core Investments) v Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office in the Court of Appeal.

Before joining chambers, Georgina was a Middle Temple Queen Elizabeth Scholar and the Middle Temple Fox Scholar in 2007 when she worked at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto.

Co-editor of 5 Essex Chambers' police law newsletter The Beat.

Co-author of:

- two chapters in OUP’s National Security Law (civil actions and the National Security and Investment Act 2021)

- The Path to Pupillage

Georgina co-presented Middle Temple’s The Pupillage Podcast.

She was the First 100 Years Project’s inaugural Inspirational Women in Law runner up, 2016.

View Georgina's full profile on the 5 Essex Chambers website.