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Furnival Chambers
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EC4A 1JQ
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Amanda Bostock
Work Department
Crime/Extradition/Prison law
Position
Barrister – Extradition/Mutual Legal Assistance/Crime/Prison law
Career
Amanda is experienced in all areas of criminal law alongside her extensive practice in extradition for which she is recognised as a leading junior and ranked at Tier 1 for International Crime and Extradition.
She is described in Chambers and Partners as a ‘tenacious advocate’ who has a ‘lovely manner’ with clients and is ‘extremely well versed in the law’ with ‘incredibly good advocacy skills’.
She regularly appears for both Requested Persons and Requesting States at first instance and at the High Court and in relation to both Part 1 and Part 2 requests. Amanda also has significant experience in Mutual Legal Assistance having reviewed inumerable requests on behalf of the UK Central Authority (Home Office).
In February 2021, Amanda appeared before the Supreme Court successfully defending the reliability of Hungarian diplomatic assurances given in relation to prison conditions and human rights.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Howard League for Penal Reform
Extradition Lawyers Association
Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum
European Criminal Bar Association
Education
University of Liverpool LLB (Hons)
Inns of Court School of Law (BVC)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > International crime and extradition
(Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 1Amanda Bostock – Furnival Chambers ‘ Amanda is a very confident and experienced advocate. She is calm, concise and coherent with a good eye for detail. Amanda has the ability to quickly get to grips with and identify issues from a large volume of material. ’
Furnival Chambers has ‘an exceptional extradition team, with some of the leading practitioners in the field‘, including Joel Smith, who is representing a man whose extradition is requested by India, on the grounds that the requested person allegedly entered in to a conspiracy with the Pakistani intelligence services to murder religious figures and political leaders in India as part of a Sikh separatist terror campaign. Nicholas Hearn‘s caseload features complex fraud extradition cases, while extradition specialist Amanda Bostock ‘is a tenacious barrister, with a meticulous eye for detail‘.