Furnival in the News
January 2012
Paul Garlick QC was mentioned in the news: Guyanese about breaching UK Bribery Act. He was also mentioned in this article by Stabroek News.
Attorney General of Barbados addresses opening of a U.K. sponsored workshop on Bribery & Corruption at Accra Beach Hotel on 9th January 2012 [Link]
November 2011
Earlier this month Paul Garlick QC and Nicholas Hearn acted in a successful appeal of a District Judge's decision to order the extradition of a Romanian national pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant. The appeal centred on the application of the new 2009 Framework Decision on retrial rights for those convicted of an extradition offence in their absence. The judgment will be of interest to extradition practitioners: Ernest-Francisc Bohm v Romanian Judicial Authority [2011] EWHC 2671(Admin).
October 2011
Nicholas Hearn represented an individual facing extradition to the Russian Federation to face trial on charges of drugs importation. Nicholas successfully challenged an earlier decision of a District Judge to order extradition: Kyastutis Musikyavicius v The Government of the Russian Federation [2011] EWHC 1549 (Admin).
The High Court remitted the case to the Magistrates' court to decide again whether extradition was barred by the passage of time since the extradition offences or whether extradition posed a risk to the requested person's rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights due to Russian prison conditions. At the remitted hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, District Judge Quentin Purdy ruled that extradition was barred due to both the passage of time and the risk that the requested person would be at risk of mistreatment in breach of his Article 3 rights.
Stephen Ball, Chamber's senior clerk, is the extradition team's specialist clerk.
August 2011
Three sentenced to jail for operating £27.5m boiler room Fraud. Stephen Leslie QC represented a defendant Mark Dingley in the trial and was the only defendant that was acquitted.
March 2011
Caroline Haughey prosecuted the case of a Tanzanian woman held as a "modern-day slave" in a bungalow in Harrow.
September 2010
Oliver Blunt QC, joint Head of Chambers, was nominated as Chambers and Partners "Silk of the Year" in the Crime category.
Paul Garlick QC was interviewed in the Barbadian press after his involvement in a training course run for the island's prosecutors.