Graeme L. Hall > Doughty Street Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
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Graeme L. Hall
Work Department
Position
Graeme practises at the intersection of extradition, crime, public law, and international human rights and public law.
Graeme specialises in the defence of high-value, complex fraud and international money laundering extradition requests. Recent and ongoing examples include the successful representation of Corey de Rose against a USA extradition request for a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud; the successful representation of Gabriel Popoviciu against a multimillion-euro land transaction fraud extradition request from Romania; the ongoing representation of Mehul Choksi in his challenges in Antigua and Barbuda against an Indian extradition request for an alleged fraud of a national bank worth over $1 billion; and, advising the Hong Kong businessman Joseph Lau in his constitutional challenges to the Hong Kong Extradition Bill. Graeme regularly defends extradition requests for other serious criminal allegations, including murder and rape, further details of which can be found under the section “Extradition”.
Career
Year of Call: 2011; Lincoln’s Inn.
Graeme is also a founder member of the Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International (CEHRI), which conducts public interest litigation with a focus on war crimes atrocities in Syria. Graeme previously worked extensively on death row in Uganda and continues to litigate death penalty cases. Graeme is regularly instructed in cases before the Privy Council, and ongoing cases include Mr Lescene Edwards’s murder conviction appeal from Jamaica; and, Mr Eden Charles’s challenge to the decision of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago to revoke his position as a UN ambassador. Graeme is otherwise instructed in litigation before the full range of international bodies, including the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights’ Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Languages
French
Memberships
Lincoln’s Inn
Centre for Capital Punishment Studies
Extradition Lawyers Association
Education
University of Manchester/Lyon Universite Jean Moulin III, English Law and French Law LLB (Hons) (Upper Second Class) 2007; University of Manchester, Healthcare Ethics and Law MA (Distinction) 2009; City Law School, Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding) 2011.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Extradition
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Graeme Hall – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Graeme is a star of the extradition Bar. He possesses a formidable knowledge of extradition case law and, increasingly, is being instructed in cases that enable him to deploy that knowledge to effect.’
A pre-eminent set with experience in appearing before the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights in extradition cases, Doughty Street Chambers is reputed for acting in some of the most high-profile cases on a national and international level, and particularly recommended handling extradition requests involving human rights issues, allegations of war crimes, cybercrime, and multinational frauds. With a track record of defeating requests from the US, Edward Fitzgerald KC continued to represent Julian Assange against extradition to the US, up to a resolution which saw Assange plead guilty to espionage but avoid a custodial sentence in the US. Fitzgerald KC also appeared in Popoviciu v Romania, leading Graeme Hall in the High Court and the Supreme Court, arguing a breach of the right to a fair trial in a challenge to extradition to Romania. Peter Caldwell is representing German authorities in a request for extradition in relation to a multi-million-euro Ponzi scheme, with the extradition being challenged on grounds of mental and physical conditions, as well as the risk of increased risk of antisemitism in Germany’s prison estate following the conflict in Gaza. Malcolm Hawkes is acting as opposing counsel, led by Fitzgerald KC, in the same proceedings.