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25 Bedford Row Offices
LONDON
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Sam Blom-Cooper
Position
Sam is experienced in all areas of criminal defence including international criminal law; serious violence, sex offences, dishonesty and drug offences; extradition; and human rights law.
Career
Called 2006.
Languages
- Spanish (Fluent)
- French (competent)
- Farsi (Conversational)
Memberships
- Association of Defence Counsel practising before the ICT
- Admitted as Counsel to the Kosovo Specialist Chamber
- Criminal Bar Association
Education
- 2006, BVC, BPP Law School, London
- 2004, CPE, City University, London
- 2002, University of Nottingham / UCM Madrid BSc Physics with Spanish (First)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > International crime and extradition
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sam Blom-Cooper –25 Bedford Row ‘Sam is a powerful force. He has excellent forensic skills, and has an incisively critical eye both for individual items of evidence as well as the larger factual picture.’
25 Bedford Row’s areas of expertise include trials of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes before international courts in Asia, Africa and in the Hague. Leading Sam Blom-Cooper, David Hooper KC is instructed as lead counsel to represent the former prime minister of Kosovo before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo in 1998-99. Blom-Cooper is also instructed in International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals case Prosecutor v Turinabo et al., a case concerning allegations of a campaign of interference with protected witnesses and contempt of court by means of intimidation and bribery.