A ‘familiar and well-respected set’, members of Furnival Chambers are often first-choice counsel of the CPS, with a particular speciality in cases concerning international fraud. ’Increasingly the CPS’s silk of choice for extradition’, Joel Smith KC led on behalf in USA v Singler, prominent extradition proceedings of a mother accused of murdering two of her children. ‘A force to be reckoned with when cross-examining’, Hannah Burton led for the prosecution in Armenia's request for an individual accused defrauding a grants scheme of around €2.5m - a case involving issues of ECHR Articles 3 and 6.

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