Chambers welcomes Georgina Pein as a new tenant - Mar 2026
Georgina joined Chambers as a tenant in March 2026. She is developing a broad-based practice across the spectrum of Chambers’ areas, encompassing public law, civil liberties and human rights, tax, employment and discrimination, education, healthcare and inquests. She is on the Government’s ‘Junior Junior’ scheme and has appeared unled in the High Court, the County Court and the Magistrates’ Court.
Before coming to the Bar, Georgina worked as a professional chef in a Michelin-starred London kitchen. During her legal studies she interned at a non-profit law firm in Philadelphia where she assisted with appeals on behalf of incarcerated individuals. She has also volunteered with a range of organisations, including Refuge and Citizens Advice.
Georgina read History of Art at Cambridge University, obtaining a Starred First and ranking top of her cohort. For her GDL she ranked third in her year. She was awarded both an Astbury Scholarship and the Queen Mother Scholarship by Middle Temple during her legal studies.
Public Law & Human RightsGeorgina accepts instructions in all aspects of public law and human rights, including judicial review proceedings and claims under the Human Rights Act 1998. Georgina previously trained as a pupil at a set specialising in public and employment law, where she worked on several high-profile cases. She is a member of the Attorney General’s ‘Junior Junior’ Panel.
Recent highlights in this field include:
- Successfully resisting an application for an interim injunction in the High Court in relation to a breach of confidence claim. Georgina appeared on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (unled).
- Advice on the approach to bereavement damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 in an Article 2 claim (as a pupil).
- Drafting grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court in a claim concerning disability discrimination in the context of entitlement to bereavement support payment. The case also raised complex issues relating to the proper approach of the Court of Appeal when considering decisions of the Northern Irish Court of Appeal (as a pupil).
- Drafting summary grounds of defence in relation to judicial review proceedings challenging the lawfulness of isolation rooms and sanction policies in schools (as a pupil).
- Drafting summary grounds of defence in relation to judicial review proceedings challenging HMRC’s decision to disclose taxpayer information to foreign authorities (as a pupil).
- Drafting a defence in an Article 3 prison claim. The case raised public law rationality arguments in the context of alleged duties on NHS bodies to co-operate with the prison service (as a pupil).
- Advice on various matters of statutory interpretation, including in relation to a potential reference on a devolution issue from the Attorney General for Northern Ireland to the Supreme Court (as a pupil).
Georgina welcomes instructions across all areas of revenue and customs law. During pupillage she was supervised by Edward Waldegrave and gained exposure to a wide variety of tax matters in the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Georgina is currently undertaking a three-month part-time secondment with HMRC.
Recent highlights in this field include (as a pupil):
- Drafting a statement of reasons to the Court of Appeal resisting a challenge by the taxpayer to a case-management decision of the High Court. The High Court had ordered a stay of the judicial review proceedings due to concurrent proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal with overlapping legitimate expectation arguments.
- Advice on the application of section 36 of the Taxes Management Act 1970.
- Research and notes on evidence in relation to DOTAS litigation in the First-tier Tribunal (Property 118 and Cotswold Barristers Limited v HMRC).
- Drafting summary grounds of defence in relation to judicial review proceedings challenging HMRC’s decision to disclose taxpayer information to foreign authorities.
Georgina practises across all areas of employment law. She has wide experience in this area, having previously trained at a set specialising in public and employment law. Georgina has worked on several cases involving complex legal issues relating to unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, discrimination, harassment and bullying, victimisation, holiday pay, protected disclosures, jurisdiction and worker status.
Georgina also provides pro bono representation in this area. She is currently representing a client bringing a constructive dismissal and whistleblowing claim in the Employment Tribunal through Advocate.
Georgina accepts instructions in a wide range of education-related matters, including judicial review proceedings and discrimination claims.
Recent highlights include:
- Acting (unled) for a teacher in a five-day Teaching Regulation Agency disciplinary hearing.
- Assisting the Claimant in Court of Appeal proceedings in a case relating to battery, false imprisonment and negligence in a residential special school.
- Drafting summary grounds of defence in relation to judicial review proceedings challenging the lawfulness of isolation rooms and sanction policies in schools (as a pupil).
Georgina accepts instructions in all areas of coronial law.
Recent highlights in this field include (assisting, as a pupil):
- A three-day Article 2 inquest where numerous failings on the part of mental health services were identified by the Coroner (pro bono, acting for the family).
- Advice for a regulator concerning the potential engagement of Article 2 arising out of the death of a child in a nursery setting.
Georgina welcomes instructions in clinical negligence. During pupillage she was supervised by Richard Smith. She assisted and worked on a wide range of high-value clinical negligence matters for both claimants and defendants. This included pleadings, schedules and advices on liability and quantum in birth injury and brain damage cases.
Georgina welcomes instructions in personal injury and has experience drafting pleadings and advising in a number of personal injury claims, including in those relating to road traffic accidents, product liability, health and safety breaches and employers’ liability.
Georgina accepts instructions in this area. She was recently instructed (unled) in a five-day Teaching Regulation Agency disciplinary hearing.
