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Dr Patricia Londono

0207 520 6000 clerks@18rlc.co.uk

Position

Crime, Regulatory Crime, Professional Discipline, Human Rights, Public Law.

Career

Patricia is a meticulous advocate with an impressive intellectual background. Prior to coming to the Bar, Patricia enjoyed an academic career, holding posts at Oxford, Cambridge and Brunel Universities, specialising in European and International human rights law. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Babsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Thesis Prize by Oxford University for most outstanding thesis in the area of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

She practices in the areas of serious crime, extradition, public law and human rights. Her recent high-profile work includes acting as disclosure counsel in a 10-handed £250m fraudulent trading and corruption case, and being instructed in an appeal against conviction in excess of thirty years old for multiple murder. She is currently a member of the counsel team instructed by the Metropolitan Police responding to the Undercover Policing Inquiry chaired by Sir John Mitting. Patricia is an experienced lecturer and is Editor-in-Chief of Arlidge, Eady and Smith on Contempt. She is a member of the SFO Prosecution Panel, and the CPS Fraud, and Serious Crime Panels. She has also been appointed to the list of specialist regulatory advocates to prosecute on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association, Justice, Human Rights Lawyers Association, ADRL. Publications of note: – ‘Redrafting abortion rights under the ECHR: A, B and C v. Ireland’ in E Brems (ed) Diversity and European Human Rights: Rewriting Judgments of the ECHR (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013). – ‘Human Rights, Positive Obligations and Domestic Violence: Kalucza v Hungary in the European Court of Human Rights’ (2012) 1 (2) International Human Rights Law Review 339-348 – ‘Defining Rape under the European Convention on Human Rights: Torture, Consent and Equality’ in C McGlynn and V Munro (eds) Rethinking Rape Law: National, International and European Perspectives (Routledge 2010). – ‘Developing Human Rights Principles in Cases of Gender-based Violence: Opus v Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights’ (2009) 9 Human Rights Law Review 657-667. – ‘The Executive, the Parole Board and Article 5 ECHR: Progress within an “Unhappy State of Affairs”?’ (2008) 67 Cambridge Law Journal 230-233. – ‘Applying Convention Jurisprudence to the Needs of Women Prisoners’ (2007) Public Law 198 – 208. – ‘Positive Obligations, Criminal Procedure and Rape Cases’ [2007] 2 European Human Rights Law Review 158 – 171.

Education

LLB. Hons (First Class) 2001 MSc (Oxon) Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction) 2002 D Phil (Oxon) (Prize winning) 2006 Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Thesis Prize (Oxford University) (2006) Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn (2006) Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln’s Inn (2005) Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholar (2002-2005) (for doctorate).