Alun Jones QC : Call: 1972, QC: 1989
Summary:
Alun Jones QC is 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,
37 Great James Street, London WC1N 3HB. There are currently eleven
full members of chambers.
Details of Practice:
Alun Jones practises in serious and complex fraud, both trial and advisory work, primarily for the defence. He has defended as leading counsel in several major Serious Fraud Office prosecutions.
He has conducted fourteen full House of Lords appeals in extradition cases, acting in ten of them for foreign governments, including Pinochet, for the Government of Spain.
He has appeared in courts in Hong Kong (Court of Appeal and Privy Council) 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.
He has been admitted in the USA as a foreign advocate as amicus curiae in Illinois in 1996 to support arguments for the defence in a case of irregular extradition from Mexico in the death penalty case of Manual Salazar.
His practice includes general advice on extradition matters in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, throughout Western Europe and in various jurisdictions in the Caribbean, and general criminal trial, appellate and advisory work. He has appeared in major disaster trials, terrorist trials and as leading counsel in four purely criminal cases in the House of Lords.
Education/Professional Qualifications:
Educated at Bristol University - B.Sc. (Econ) 1970
Called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn, 1972
Queen’s Counsel 1989
Admitted ad hoc to the Bars of Hong Kong, Singapore, the Republic
of Fiji, the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands.
Other Information:
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).
Notable Cases:
Commercial Crime:
2006 Appeal of James Ting, Hong Kong
2002-5 USA v Roys Poyiadjis, Isle of Man, USA, Cyprus; extradition, asset
confiscation claim for $250m
2000-2 Wickes PLC, serious fraud trial, for the defence
2000 Defence of boxing promoter Frank Warren (allegations of VAT fraud)
1997 Westminster City Council v Dame Shirley Porter and others
1995-6 Kevin Maxwell
1993 Andrew Kent (T C Coombs) - alleged Stock Exchange Fraud
1991 Stephen Clark (the Blue Arrow Trial)
1989-90 Second trial of Kenneth Grob (the Alexander Howden reinsurance
trials). Also appeared in the first trial as junior counsel.
Extradition:
2007 Hilali, Spain, wanted for all 9/11 killings; habeas corpus
2006 Several current advisory and court cases in UK and abroad.
2004-2006 Bermingham, Darby & Mulgrew – Enron (UK-USA)
1996-2006 Heath, Miller Matthews, St Kitts to USA.
2003 Boris Borezovsky (UK-Russia)
2003 Hadi Soleimanpour ((UK-Argentina)
2001 Chakkaphak (UK-Thailand)
1998-2000 Pinochet (UK-Spain, for the Government of Spain)
1997-8 Werner Rey (Bahamas-Switzerland)
1996-7 Peter Kruger (Cayman Islands-Switzerland)
1994-7 In re Launder (UK-Hong Kong)
1994 In re Evans (UK-Sweden)
1990-1 R v Government of Pentonville Prison, ex parte Sinclair (UK-USA)
1991 Eng Sui-Hang (Hong Kong-USA)
1990 Liangsiriprasert [1991] 1 AC 225 (Hong Kong-USA).
Criminal Law:
1996-2000 Private Crown Court prosecution for the Hillsborough Family
Support Group (manslaughter trial)
1999 Lord Hardwicke - News of the World entrapment trial
1997 The Carl Bridgewater murder appeal
1994 Rajan Pillai (Singapore)
1990 The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster trial (for the ship’s mate).
