Rosie Worster
Rosie has a varied caseload that covers pre-charge, police station and court representation, including advocacy in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court litigation. She is particularly experienced in working with vulnerable clients, and is regularly referred cases as part of Commons’ collaboration with the Migrants’ Law Project.
Rosie’s recent notable cases include:
R v C (2023) – Made successful representations for her client not to be prosecuted for a specified either-way offence and instead be given a police caution.
R v C (2023) – Represented a client with complex mental health needs facing a total of 24 charges including 16 breaches of a Criminal Behaviour Order which led to the discontinuance of 20 of those charges and a discharge of the underlying Criminal Behaviour Order as unworkable.
R v B (2022) – Successfully appealed a client’s sentence for possession with intent to supply Class A drugs on the basis that the Crown Court’s sentencing powers had been limited to the equivalent powers of the Magistrates Court. The total sentence was reduced from 2 years 4 months to 12 months.
Rosie completed her training contract at Commons, which included a secondment to the Education, Employment and Discrimination team at Southwark Law Centre. As part of her training contract Rosie both acted as a fee earner and assisted in a number of complex cases ranging from murder appeals to drug importation.
Before joining Commons, Rosie worked for a non-governmental organisation fighting for prison reform in Accra, Ghana. She also worked as a paralegal with a focus on asylum and immigration detention, and has volunteered with several organisations with a focus on human rights and access to justice including Justice Defenders (formerly African Prisons Project) and RELEASE.
Rosie holds a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from SOAS, University of London.
