TERRORISM

Chambers has an unrivalled expertise in terrorism law. Members of the specialist team, which comprises of Queen's Counsel, leading junior counsel and junior counsel, are considered leaders in the field.

Members of Chambers have been involved in the most serious, complex and high profile terrorism prosecutions in recent years, including:

  • Operation Overt: the Airline Liquid Bomb Case
  • Operation Chamfer: the first prosecution for encouragement of terrorism
  • R v Abdul Saleem: the Danish Cartoon Protest Case
  • R v Samina Malik: the Lyrical Terrorist Case
  • Operation Overamp: the Training Camp Case
  • Operation Vivace: the 21/7 failed London bombings
  • Operation Rhyme: the Dirty Bomb Case
  • R v Abu Hamza: the Finsbury Park Mosque Case
  • R v Kanyare: the Red Mercury Case
  • Operation Crevice: the Fertiliser Case
  • Operation Springbourne: the Ricin Case
  • R -v- Sulayman Zain-Ul-Abidin: the first prosecution for Islamic terrorism in UK

Team members have acted in landmark human rights challenges to terrorism-related executive action, such as control orders, extradition proceedings and asset freezing orders. Leading cases include:

  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF (No. 3): main authority on Article 6 ECHR requirements in control order proceedings
  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB: first challenge to control orders
  • US Government v Babar Ahmad: first 2003 Extradition Act consideration of whether the extradition to the USA based on undertakings is Human Rights Act compatible
  • Babar Ahmad & Haroon Aswat v US Government: appeal against the decision to commit to custody and subsequent decision to extradite to the USA
  • US Government v Abu Hamza: whether extradition to the USA might involve SAMs, extraordinary rendition, Military Order No. 1 and cruel and unusual punishment

Members of Chambers regularly deliver lectures, write in legal journals and give media interviews on terrorism law.

Team members advise and act, without fee if necessary, at all stages of a terrorism case, including approaches by the security services, stop and search, pre-charge detention hearings and proceedings in foreign jurisdictions or international tribunals/courts.