Summary

Alun Jones QC is a specialist in criminal and administrative law, including commercial crime, extradition, mutual assistance, international criminal law and judicial review. In 2005, he founded and became Head of Great James Street Chambers.

His experience in Crime and extradition is vast, he has been involved in many of the most notorious cases of the last 15 years, regularly dealing with high profile clients and issues.

He has conducted numerous full House of Lords appeals in extradition cases, acting in ten of them for foreign governments, including Pinochet, for the Government of Spain.

He is world renowned, having advised and advocated in cases in Hong Kong (Court of Appeal and Privy Council), Japan, Australia, India, throughout Western Europe and the Caribbean. He has appeared in two USA requisitions in drugs cases, one of which, Liangsiriprasert [1991] 1 AC 225 is recognised as a leading case upon territorial jurisdiction in English and Commonwealth criminal law.

Notable Cases

Crime

Appeal of James Ting, Hong Kong & Bahamas

Large fraud case successfully appealed. Ongoing proceedings. More >

Raymond Chan, Hong Kong

Chairman of RNA Holdings charged with false accounting and billion dollar fraud. More >

Ian Leaf

Multi-million pound fraud. More >

Jeremy Young & Others

Police Officer Corruption case. More >

Karl Pettitt

Large Cocaine importation More >

USA v Roys Poyiadjis, Isle of Man, USA, Cyprus

Extradition proceedings and asset confiscation claim for $250m.

Cushnie

Versailles Group Fraud. More >

Wickes PLC

Serious fraud trial, for the defence. More >

Frank Warren

Defence of boxing promoter during allegations of VAT fraud. More >

Westminster City Council v Dame Shirley Porter and others

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Kevin Maxwell

Large fraud trial of the sons of Robert Maxwell, eventually acquitted. More >

Andrew Kent (T C Coombs)

Alleged Stock Exchange Fraud.

Stephen Clark (the Blue Arrow Fraud Trial)

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Kenneth Grob (the Alexander Howden reinsurance trials). Also appeared in the first trial as junior counsel.

Private Crown Court prosecution for the Hillsborough Family Support Group

Manslaughter trial against DC’s Duckenfield & Murray relating to the Hillsborough football disaster.

Lord Hardwicke - News of the World entrapment trial

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The Carl Bridgewater murder appeal

Rajan Pillai (Singapore)

The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster trial (for the ship’s mate)

Extradition

Vincent Brown & Others

Rwanda genocide. More >

Hamza

Ongoing proceedings relating to extradition to U.S on terror charges. More >

Spain –v- Hilali

Wanted for all 9/11 killings; habeas corpus. More >

Irving

Extradition request relating sanctions breaching offences under the UN oil for food programme. More >

Atkinson & Binnington

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Benjamin Goodyer, House of Lords

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Tollman

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Heath, Miller Matthews, St Kitts to USA.

Case spanning 10 years

Bermingham, Darby & Mulgrew

The “Natwest Three” Enron (UK-USA). More >

Ian Norris

US alleged cartel offence.vMore >

Boris Borezovsky

(UK-Russia)

Hadi Soleimanpour

(UK-Argentina)

Chakkaphak

(UK-Thailand)

Pinochet

UK-Spain, for the Government of Spain. More >

Charron

Bahamas to USA

Werner Rey

(Bahamas-Switzerland)

Levin

(UK to USA); computer hacking

Peter Kruger

Cayman Islands-Switzerland

In re Launder

(UK-Hong Kong)

In re Evans

(UK-Sweden)

R v Government of Pentonville Prison, ex parte Sinclair (UK-USA)

Eng Sui-Hang (Hong Kong-USA)

Liangsiriprasert [1991] 1 AC 225 (Hong Kong-USA)

Unlawful Warrants

Redknapp

For both Harry and Sandra Redknapp in this successful challenge to the execution of a search warrant at the Redknapp’s home. More>

Faisaltex Ltd

Challenge of search warrants for large company in the North West. More>

Bates

Successful challenge of search warrant issued on forensic computer analyst More>

Bhatti & Others

Successful challenge of search warrants, warrants issued on a premises were found to be unlawful.

Also on Amanda Jones’ profiled can you add this at the top of her Notable Cases please

Bhatti & Others

Successful challenge of search warrants, warrants issued on a premises were found to be unlawful.

Publications

Author “Jones on Extradition and Mutual Assistance” (Sweet & Maxwell 2001, second edition; first edition 1995.)

Co-author “Jones & Doobay on Extradition and Mutual Assistance” (Sweet & Maxwell 2004; third edition)

Co-author, Blackstone’s Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006 (OUP)