Temple Garden Chambers is a leading common law set based in London and The Hague.
With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
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Temple Garden Chambers is a leading common law set based in London and The Hague.
With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
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Temple Garden Chambers has a strong extradition team. They are well-prepared and deliver written and oral advocacy to a very high standard. Members of chambers have a wide range of experience in extradition law and are able to handle complex and novel legal issues.
Temple Garden Chambers’ extradition team is highly ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers UK, both as a team and individually.
Members of chambers are in involved in the leading cases and have appeared in nearly every extradition Supreme Court case in recent times. Members of the team have authored the lead textbook on the implications of Brexit for this area, ‘A Practical Guide to Extradition Law Post-Brexit’.
The team has a broad range and depth of experience, regularly appearing in courts at all levels from the Magistrates’ Court to the Supreme Court representing requested persons, the National Crime Agency, the Secretary of State, foreign governments, and judicial authorities within the European Union as well as advising Government departments and agencies on extradition issues.
Several members have undertaken secondments in the Extradition Unit at the Crown Prosecution Service. Members of the team also lecture extensively and provide training in Extradition practice and regularly comment in the media on extradition issues. Two are current committee members of the Defence Extradition Lawyers’ Forum.
We are leading Interpol Red Notice lawyers. We have extensive experience in acting in matters concerning Interpol Red Notices and requests to the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files for the deletion of Data. The team has experience in cases spanning the globe and has a breadth of experience in advising business people and high net worth individuals who have been targeted by repressive regimes.
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Saoirse appeared on behalf of Ms Bridgeman before Mr Justice Swift in this multi-handed appeal and judicial review. The Requested Persons’ extradition is sought by Albania to face trial for a gang-related murder. Unusually, the Requested Persons both appealed the...
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Saoirse was instructed on behalf of the SSHD. Linden J allowed the Claimant’s judicial review of the SSHD’s decision to defer extradition to Portugal in favour of the US (s.179(2) Extradition Act 2003). This is the first judicial review which...
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Counsel for a Kuwaiti national residing in London in extradition sought by the Government of Kuwait in connection with allegations of fraud. It is one of the first cases in which an extradition request is being heard following the coming...
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Representing Bahraini national Ahmed Jaafar Ali in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning his extradition to Bahrain from Serbia. The ECtHR ordered interim measures to bar his return but Mr Ali was sent to Bahrain in...
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Court of Appeal decision concerning the interpretation of the ‘unduly harsh’ test pursuant to Part 5A of the Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Émilie appeared alone against Ramby de Mello QC.
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Émilie Pottle was led by Clare Montgomery QC on the lead case in the rule of law challenge to extradition to Poland. Fordham J granted permission to the requested person challenging the independence of the judiciary in view of legislative...
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Temple Garden Chambers has a strong extradition team. They are well-prepared and deliver written and oral advocacy to a very high standard. Members of chambers have a wide range of experience in extradition law and are able to handle complex and novel legal issues.
Members are able to handle all levels of cases including complex matters and are highly respected by the courts.
Excellent depth of experience in extradition matters.
Sources regard Temple Garden Chambers as 'a serious, heavyweight international set'.
Temple Garden Chambers has a number of talented barristers in the field of extradition.
Temple Garden Chambers have some outstanding juniors.
