Wendy presently teaches the following topics:
- Court skills
- Criminal justice (including building a criminal case, post charge bail, charging standards and sentencing)
- Evidence led prosecutions
- Legislation, including assaults, hate crime, youth crime and homicide
- Disclosure in criminal cases
- Bail and remands
- Professional Standards and Ethics
- Domestic Abuse
Wendy qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and spent two years in private practice. This was prior to joining the Crown Prosecution Service, where she remained in a variety of roles until her retirement in March of 2021. She gained considerable experience as an advocate and as a reviewing lawyer, with particular expertise in the prosecution of homicides, hate crime, domestic abuse, youth crime, wildlife offences, fatal road traffic cases and high value fraud.
Wendy is media trained and has given live steps of court interviews, following the conclusion of several high-profile cases. She qualified as a Higher Courts' Advocate in 2008.
In 2015, she was appointed as a Legally Qualified Chair for Police Misconduct Panels and now chairs for several regions. She has gained significant knowledge in the field of Professional Standards and Ethics.
In 2021, she was appointed Judge of the First Tier Tribunal and sits on a part time basis. Wendy also joined our Law and Policing Team that same year.
