Jonathan Woodcock is a senior leading junior whose practice is exclusively defence based.

Jonathan has accrued extensive experience as a specialist defence counsel and is instructed to act for clients across a wide spectrum of serious criminal offences. He has a noteworthy reputation for being both sympathetic and straight talking in his representation of clients.

 When not preparing cases or appearing in court, Jonathan enjoys playing tennis and is a keen road cyclist. As a man who enjoys a challenge, he recently cycled London-Paris to raise funds on behalf of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Jonathan is a rugby fan and a season ticket holder at Saracens.

Notable cases include:

R v Fannon -  Hove Crown Court - Leading junior in a large scale Class A supply case.

R v Marshall & Ors - Ipswich Crown Court - Acting for principle defendant in huge customs duty evasion and only one of the few major defendants to be aquitted.

R v Lalovic - Winchester Crown Court - Leading junior in importation of hundreds of kilos of cannabis.

R v Kingdom - Central Criminal Court  - Leading junior in attempted murder - defendant upset at garage mechanic so shot him!

R v Smith - Bristol Crown Court - Leading junior. Professional dealer of colossal  amounts of cocaine and heroin.

R v Masaki - Harrow Crown Court - Leading junior. Kidnap and gang rape