Joel Smith

Year of Call: 2002

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Extradition, Regulation/Compliance

R (Akaroglu) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] 1 All ER 27, DC (appropriate method of appeal where Secretary of State has erroneously certified a part 2 request)

Nikonovs v Governor of HMP Brixton [2006] 1 WLR 1518, [2006] 1 All ER 927, DC, continued existence of habeas corpus in proceedings under Extradition Act 2003

Hall v Government of Germany [2006] EWHC 462 (Admin), provisions of s2 of the Extradition Act 2003

Prenga v Government of Albania [2006] EWHC 1616 (Admin), Albanian citizen tortured into confessing to murder

Stepp v Government of America [2006] EWHC 1033 (Admin), junior counsel, American citizen accused of multiple rapes, arguments re: speciality and abuse of process

Government of the United States of America v McKinnon (2006), junior counsel for the Government of America, large scale computer hacking

Regina v Skinner (2004), second junior to the Crown, sex attacks at the Deepcut army barracks

R (on the application of Cunliffe) v West London Magistrates' Court and others [2006] EWHC 2081 (Admin), judicial review - guidance on issue of witness summonses

R v Smith and others; R v Bubliauskas and others (2006-7) junior counsel for the Crown in trials concerning conspiracies to import and supply firearms arising out of operation ENCINO

Akaroglu v Government of Romania

Government of Cyprus v Wright and others (2007), discharge of British citizens mistreated in custody in Cyprus

R v. Benzin, Southwark Crown Court, 2008, junior counsel for the Crown in ‘Operation Magistrar’ the first prosecution to result in a conviction for laundering the proceeds of the commercial distribution of child abuse images in the UK

Paschayan v. The Government of Switzerland [2008] EWHC 388 (Admin), extradition involving allegations of fraud totalling more than $10 million, arguments on meaning of an ‘accused’ person.

Jervis v. The Public Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, Rennes [2008] EHWC 2011 (Admin) represented the French judicial authority. Extradition request in respect of convictions for rape and escape. Arguments as to the extradition of a defendant with mental health difficulties.
 



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