Aidan Ellis > Temple Garden Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Temple Garden Chambers
1 Harcourt Buildings, Temple
LONDON
EC4Y 9DA
England

Position

Aidan has built a practice representing clients at international courts and tribunals. He has worked on cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. He is currently legal consultant in the Defence team of Mr Bruno Stojic at the ICTY and argued Mr Stojic’s response to the Prosecution’s Appeal before the Appeals Chamber in March 2017. At the ICC, he has worked on the cases of Mr Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Libya) and Mr Abdallah Banda and Mr Saleh Jerbo (Sudan).

Aidan is an active member of the Association of Defence Counsel practising before the International Courts and Tribunals (“ADC”) and is currently the chairperson of the ADC membership committee and a member of the ADC amicus committee.

Aidan maintains a national civil practice specialising in personal injury. He is particularly interested in personal injury cases with an international / human rights aspect. He is the author of Kevan and Ellis on Credit Hire and the editor of PI Brief Update Law Journal.

Career

Called 2005; Middle Temple.

Memberships

Association of Defence Counsel of the ICTY
Administrative and Constitutional Law Bar Association
Human Rights Lawyers Association
Personal Injury Bar Association

Education

Northamptonshire Grammar School; Downing College, Cambridge (BA, First; LLM, First).

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > International crime and extradition

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2

Aidan EllisTemple Garden Chambers ‘Aidan is known as an excellent drafter.’

Temple Garden Chambers‘ is notable for its work in both international criminal law matters and extradition cases in the UK. Aidan Ellis is representing Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi in admissibility proceedings before the International Criminal Court regarding alleged crimes of murder and persecution committed in Libya in 2011. Kathryn Howarth acted for the CPS in an extradition appeal in Maric v Croatia, requesting a Serbian man, now living in Derby, for alleged war crimes in 1991. Saoirse Townshend was instructed in Bazys and Besan v Lithuania, an extradition case before the Divisional Court regarding conditions in Lithuania’s prisons.