Gemma Vine
Partner
Gemma is a Partner within our Personal Injury and Inquest Department
Gemma is a Partner within our Personal Injury and Inquest Department
Gemma is a nationally recognised specialist in representing bereaved families at Inquests, along with representing and advising people through the police complaint process and bringing a variety of claims against the police. Gemma has particular expertise in representing families at inquests involving deaths in custody and has also represented families in a number of high profile inquests. These inquests include the family of Bobby and Christi Shepherd who died from carbon monoxide in Corfu whilst on a Thomas Cook holiday and the family of murdered school girl Elsie Frost. Gemma finds it very rewarding to have played a part in highlighting cases where there have been system failures in order to prevent future deaths. Given the public interest in which these cases attract, she is experienced in devising strategies for her clients in handling media attention.
Gemma is a regular contributor to INQUEST law magazine and proud to be closely associated with INQUEST, a charitable advise service to bereaved families and others on contentious deaths and their investigation. She’s also a member of the INQUEST Lawyers Group and its steering group and has been ranked Band 2 by Chambers and Partners for INQUEST UK wide for 2024 and 2025.
Over the years Gemma has been recognised for her dedication to representing bereaved families in in the 2010 Law Society Excellence Awards (highly commenced -Junior Lawyer), 2015 at the British Legal Awards (Associate Solicitor of the Year) and in 2016 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (shortlisted-Public law).
“Gemma is very well-versed in inquests especially acting for family members.”
“She is just very alive to change in the inquest landscape.”
“Gemma is incredibly effective and she has the trust of her clients.”
“I often think back to the dark days in the summer of 2020 when I really didn’t know how best to challenge my daughters lack of treatment. I called Inquest and had a long chat with them.
Later that afternoon Gemma called and listened to my concerns and felt that she could help me. Since that time, I have read with sadness and disbelief at the cases that Ison Harrison have represented family members at and feel so fortunate that it was Gemma who called me that afternoon.”
