Extradition Law

Members of Garden Court have long been involved in seminal extradition law cases (Astrid Proll, member of the Baader Meinhof group and Pinochet for example), but we have in very recent times formed a team of practitioners to meet the changes brought about by the Extradition Act 2003 and the European Arrest Warrant Scheme. Our team comprises silks who specialise in Crime, International Law and Immigration and Nationality Law as well a range of criminal and immigration juniors.

Members of the team have been regularly involved in successful challenges to extradition requests, at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court. Below are two recent examples:

• Mauritius v Teeren Appasamy: TA was alleged to have stolen/defrauded the Mauritian Commercial Bank of tens of million of pounds. After a year and a half of hearings, TA was finally discharged pursuant to s91, EA 2003 on medical grounds. The alternative arguments prepared on his behalf were that his extradition was barred by reason of insufficiency of evidence, abuse of process, passage of time and human rights violations
  
• Albania v Isa Mustafaj: IM's extradition was sought on charges of attempted murder and firearms offences. IM was discharged on the grounds that his extradition would have been oppressive due to the passage of time and would also have breached his Article 3 rights.

Some of our team have written, lectured (both nationally and internationally), appeared on the television and spoken on the radio in relation to extradition law (see for example, articles in Archbold News and New Law Journal on the European Arrest Warrant and the Extradition Act 2003).

Criminal Clerks

If you would like more information about our Extradition Law team email the clerks crimeclerks@gclaw.co.uk or call us on 020 7993 7600

The team

Members of the Extradition Law team are listed below - click on their names to go to their profiles.

Barrister Year of Call Email Address Ian Macdonald QC 1963 Send Email Richard Harvey 1971 Send Email Marguerite Russell 1972 Send Email Owen Davies QC MA (Cantab) 1973 Send Email Laurie Fransman QC 1979 Send Email Dexter Dias QC 1988 Send Email Mark Muller QC 1991 Send Email Nadine Finch 1991 Send Email Helen Curtis 1992 Send Email Rajiv Menon 1993 Send Email Keir Monteith 1994 Send Email Edward Grieves 1995 Send Email Shereener Browne 1996 Send Email Maya Sikand 1997 Send Email Shiraz Aziz 1997 Send Email Femi Omere 1999 Send Email Anna Morris 2006 Send Email Sarah Hemingway 2006 Send Email Alex Grigg 2007 Send Email Kirsten Heaven 2007 Send Email Helen Foot 2008 Send Email