TGC welcomes a new tenant to Chambers

2nd December 2021

TGC are delighted to announce that Russell Hopkins has accepted an invitation to join Temple Garden Chambers. Russell qualified as a solicitor in 2008, spent time as a judicial assistant to Lord Collins and Lord Wilson and some years with Herbert Smith Freehills before being Called to the Bar in 2018.

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Extradition to Russia refused

29th November 2021

This morning the Chief Magistrate discharged a British/Russian national from extradition proceedings initiated by the Russian State. In ordering the Requested Person’s (‘RP’s) discharge, the learned Judge provided guidance as to his interpretation of “political opinions”, under the extraneous considerations bar, signaling a departure from the approach taken by his recent predecessors.

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