Blinne is developing a diverse practice in criminal, public and human rights law. Her practice encompasses most areas of criminal defence and criminal justice work, including prison law, actions against the police and judicial reviews of decisions not to prosecute. She also practices in discrimination law, particularly disability discrimination, and public law, including education and immigration.

Blinne has a strong interest in human rights and international law, areas in which her practice is growing. She is an executive committee member of the Bar Human Rights Committee and has been instructed in international boundary dispute and death penalty cases. She also spent three months in 2007 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory providing training to Palestinian lawyers and NGOs on international humanitarian and human rights law.

Blinne studied Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Latin) at Cambridge (Queens’ College), graduating with a First in 1998.  She obtained a distinction for the Graduate Diploma in Law and gained the grade of Outstanding on the BVC in 2005, placing fourth in her year.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Blinne worked for a leading solicitor’s firm specialising in actions against the police and prison law.  She subsequently spent two years working on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, initially for an NGO in the capacity of legal observer and then for the solicitors representing the wounded and the families of those killed. In 2005, Blinne spent two months undertaking death penalty work in Trinidad and Tobago.

Blinne came to the legal profession after an initial career working for a US-based consultancy/think-tank where she was responsible for clients across Europe and South Africa.

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