Amelia Nice: Call - 2006

Summary:

Amelia practises in extradition, public law, crime and immigration.

Her areas of particular interest are extradition, crime related public law and cases involving the Human Rights Act 1998.

Amelia has recently completed a seven month secondment to the Special Crime Division of the Crown Prosecution Service. As in-house extradition counsel she advised and represented requesting judicial authorities and governments in extradition proceedings both at first instance hearings and extradition appeals in the High Court. These cases included those involving trafficking, abduction, rape, violent crime and all types of dishonesty offences. Contested hearings involved arguments on jurisdiction, the validity of European Arrest Warrants, and the compatibility of extradition with the Human Rights Act 1998.

Prior to coming to the bar Amelia worked in London and Europe in the field of human rights and international development. The organizations included the Spanish Red Cross, The European Commission Humanitarian Office, The Sudan Organisation Against Torture, Womankind Worldwide and the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the work involved developing programmes to challenge the impunity of state sanctioned torture in Sudan, establishing a civil rights programme in Afghanistan and work to develop the investigative approach of the ICC.

Professional Associations

Amelia is a member of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, Advocates for International Development (A4ID); the Bar Pro Bono Committee and the Human Rights Lawyers Association and Bar Human Rights Committee. She is a qualified Free Representation Unit Representative.

She is also a trustee for an NGO promoting the rights of those widowed through conflict in conflict affected countries.

 

 

 

 

Education and Qualifications

1994 – 1997: Politics and Philosophy (Joint Hons) 1st

1997 – 1998: M.A in Critical Theory

2003 – 2005: Graduate Diploma in Law

2005 – 2006: Bar Vocational Course

2006: Called to the bar (Inner Temple)

Languages

Spanish & curious Polish