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About
Provided by Edward Craven
Practice Areas
Specialist in human rights, civil liberties and administrative law; public and private international law; media law; civil fraud and proceeds of crime; environmental law; commercial law and sports law.
Career
Notable cases include Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell and Lungowe v Vedanta (UKSC appeals concerning group claims against UK parent companies and foreign subsidiaries); Lloyd v Google (UKSC appeal concerning representative actions and DPA); Elgizouli v Home Secretary (UKSC appeal concerning facilitation of death penalty); ZXC v Bloomberg (UKSC appeal concerning privacy rights of criminal suspects); Belhaj v Straw (UKSC appeal concerning state immunity and foreign act of state doctrine); Beghal v DPP (UKSC appeal concerning legality of anti-terrorism legislation); OPO v MLA (UKSC appeal concerning ban on publication of autobiography); Rahmatullah v MOD (UKSC appeal concerning crown act of state doctrine); SXH v CPS (UKSC appeal concerning prosecution of refugees); Smith v MoD (UKSC appeal concerning extra-territorial application of ECHR); Bashir v SSHD (UKSC appeal concerning application of Refugee Convention); Gubarev v Christopher Steele (libel trial concerning publication of 'Trump Russia' dossier); Saifullah & Noorzai v Secretary of State for Defence (judicial reviews concerning failure to investigate suspected murders of Afghan civilians by British Special Forces); Croatia v Serbia (ICJ case concerning application of Genocide Convention); Somalia v Kenya (ICJ maritime delimitation dispute); Guyana v Venezuela (ICJ case concerning validity of arbitral award).
Personal
BA Law (First Class), Cambridge University; BCL (Distinction), Oxford University; BVC (Outstanding). Former judicial assistant at Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.
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