Geoffrey Birch is one of the senior members of Chambers and has many years experience defending in all areas of Criminal Law. He regulalry appears as Leading Junior and has conducted numerous  trials in that capacity in the areas of child abuse, sexual offences, fraud and offences against the person etc.

He also appeared in 2006 in one of the largest and most complex cases involving sexual child abuse that has ever been tried.

He has regularly and successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal and has appeared in the House of Lords in a case involving the law in relation to confiscation proceedings ( R v Alan Pope).

He has additionally appeared in many Courts-Martial cases both in the UK and abroad and was instructed to represent a British soldier (successfully) in one of the much-publicised Iraqi War Crimes trials.

Geoffrey Birch also successfully represented over a period of time the notorious Charles Bronson.

More recently Mr Birch has  represented Jennifer Smith-Dennis at a murder trial in Luton Crown Court, known in the press as 'The headless body in the blue lagoon' case. Please follow the link for further details:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8588274.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/26/family-jailed-blue-lagoon-murder-michael-gilbert

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/04/24/family-of-thugs-convicted-of-blue-lagoon-murder-115875-22208065/