LEAP MEMBERSHIP February 2013

Catharine Almond is a lawyer at Sheehan & Partners, www.sheehanandpartners.ie, qualified in both England and Ireland. She has extensive experience with judicial review, extradition, and the European Arrest Warrant system.

Liesbeth Baetens works at Faber Inter, www.faberinter.be, Brussels, in the fields of commercial law, contract law, and criminal law. Previously she was a Junior Researcher at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Law Faculty of the University of Maastricht, and has worked alongside Professor Taru Spronken in recent studies on procedural safeguards.

Wouter van Ballegooij was until mid-2009 the Justice and Home Affairs Policy Adviser to Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP. He is now Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) policy adviser for the Greens/EFA alliance in the European Parliament, www.europarl.europa.eu . Wouter has published several articles on mutual recognition instruments including the European Arrest Warrant and is completing a PhD on mutual recognition with Professor Taru Spronken (Maastricht University)

Rodrigo Barbosa Souto is a Portuguese criminal lawyer and a partner in the Lisbon firm F. Castelo Branco & Associados, www.fcb-legal.com.

Rachel Barnes is a barrister at Three Raymond Buildings, , www.3raymondbuildings.com. Rachel is a dual-qualified US attorney and English barrister specialising in international law and cross-border matters. Rachel is also a Visiting Lecturer at the London School of Economics and a consultant editor of the Lloyd’s Law Reports: Financial Crime.

Jodie Blackstock is a barrister and the senior legal officer for EU Criminal Justice and Home Affairs at JUSTICE, www.justice.org.uk. Before joining JUSTICE, she practised at 1 Crown Office Row Chambers. She also regularly assists on Trinidadian constitutional cases. In addition to her role at JUSTICE she sits on the executive committee of Amicus (assisting lawyers for justice on death row).

Myrddin Bouwan is a criminal defence lawyer and partner at Van Appia & Van der Lee http://www.vanappiavanderlee.nl/. She has extensive experience of cases involving organised crime, drug offences, human trafficking, , money laundering and homicide. She is a member of the Dutch Association of Criminal Law Specialists and previously lectured at the University of Utrecht.

James Brannan is a legal linguist currently at the European Court of Human Rights and previously at the International Court of Justice. Prior to that he was a self-employed legal translator/interpreter in Lyon, working for the courts and police services (as expert près la Cour d’appel de Lyon) and many law firms. He is currently working with EULITA on the right to language assistance in criminal proceedings.

Danut-Ioan Bugnariu is the founding partner of Bugnariu Avocati, Romania, www.bugnariu.ro, specializing in business and economic criminal law. He has worked on cases on money laundering, fraud, tax related crimes, obstruction of justice, and corruption involving government officials.

Jaime Campaner Muñoz is a lawyer (ICA Mallorca), specialising in criminal law. He is a founding partner of Valdivia & Campaner Abogados, www.valdivia-campaner.com. He is a member of the European Criminal Bar Association and an Associate Professor of Procedural Law at the Universidad de las Islas Baleares.

1 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission. Theodora Christou has worked at the AIRE Centre as a consultant in human rights and EU law, www.airecentre.org. She has also been a Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2001-2007) and is an Executive Member of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (2009).

Ben Cooper is a barrister at , www.doughtystreet.co.uk, where he specialises in crime and human rights. Ben has acted in many high-profile extradition cases and in 2006 he drafted a Parliamentary briefing on reform of the UK’s extradition laws.

Vania Costa Ramos is a criminal lawyer at Carlos Pinto de Abreu’s law firm in Lisbon, Portugal, where she specialises in international and European criminal law and is responsible for mutual cooperation cases. Vania lectures on criminal law at the University of Lisbon, and is completing her PhD thesis on evidence exchange in the EU. She is currently secretary of the European Criminal Bar Assn.

Scott Crosby is a partner at the Brussels-based firm of Kemmler Rapp Böhlke & Crosby, www.eurojura.be, specializing in European Union, human rights, and criminal law. He is a founding member of the New Journal of European Criminal Law, of which he is editor-in-chief.

Sarah de Mas is a former deputy director of Fair Trials Abroad. She is an international human rights adviser and a chairman of the European Criminal Lawyers’ Advisory Panel.

Emma Disley is an analyst at RAND Europe, an independent not-for-profit research institute based in Cambridge, www.rand.org. Her research interests include offender management, imprisonment, policing and the criminal justice system.

Anand Doobay is a UK and partner at the London firm of Peters & Peters, www.petersandpeters.com, who works on a range of criminal and fraud matters including cases using mutual legal assistance and European Arrest Warrants. He is author of a leading text book on the law of mutual legal assistance.

Deirdre Duffy is a research and policy officer at Irish Centre for Civil Liberties, www.iccl.ie. She conducts research and prepares policy documents on issues of equality, criminal justice and international human rights, for submission to national and international bodies.

Robert Eagar is a partner at Sheehan & Partners, www.sheehanandpartners.ie. He has dealt with many major extradition cases and has been involved in many leading Court of Criminal Appeal cases in all areas of criminal practice.

Andrejs Elksnins is a partner at S.Varpins and A.Elksnins Law Office in Riga, Latvia. He is a criminal defence lawyer with a particular interest in privacy and data protection, extradition, cross border criminal justice, human rights and access to justice.

Joanna Evans is a barrister at 25 Bedford Row, www.25bedfordrow.com. She practises criminal law, extradition and human rights law. Joanna co-authored ‘Bridging the Gap: Addressing Impunity in Transnational States’ and is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to International Criminal Law and Justice.

Mike Evans is the Manager of the Extradition Department at Kaim Todner , www.kaimtodner.com, as well as the UK Representative for the European Commission-funded Best Evidence in EAW Cases project. He has worked on alternatives to extradition, such as negotiated returns, and has represented clients at extradition hearings and appeals, and judicial reviews.

2 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission.

Markku Fredman is a partner at the Fredman and Mansson in Helsinki, Finland, www.fredman- mansson.fi. He specialises in criminal and human rights law and has acted in numerous extradition cases. He has extensive experience at both the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Hans Gaasbeek is an active part of the Lawyers without Borders –international network, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe, as well as the AED-EDL network and the Dutch League for Human Rights.

Cliff Gatzweiler is a German lawyer specializing in criminal defence and extradition in Aachen, www.gatzweiler.eu. Cliff also works as Co-Counsel at the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

George Gebbie is a Scottish who practises through the Library, www.advocates.org.uk. He has published articles on cross-border issues arising in criminal justice.

Orestis Georgiadis is a lawyer at Goulielmos D. and Partners in Thessaloniki, Greece, www.goulielmos.com. He has extensive experience as a criminal defence lawyer in cross-border cases. Orestis is also a legal advisor and member of the administrative board of Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), an NGO that monitors, publishes and lobbies on human rights issues in Greece.

Edward Grange is an associate at London based firm Hodge Jones & Allen LLP, www.hja.net. Edward specialises in Extradition law and defends requested persons at first instance and on appeal. He has defended in hundreds of European Arrest Warrant cases as well as extradition requests from countries such as USA, Russian Federation, India, UAE, Australia, New Zealand and The Gambia.

Alexandru Grosu is a partner at Grosu & Asociatii Advocats, www.grosu.ro, in Iasi, Romania. He specialises in criminal and commercial law.

Fulvia Guardascione is a criminal lawyer at Studio Legale Vetrano in Naples, Italy, dealing with cases involving alleged organized crime and serious offences such as armed robbery, fraud, drug-dealing and extortion. She has a particular interest in human rights law and detention issues.

Diana-Olivia Hatneanu is a Romanian lawyer at the Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee (APADOR), www.apador.org. Diana has extensive experience of cross-border criminal defence cases in which fundamental rights issues arise.

Sanna Herlin is a Swedish barrister at Tre Advokater, http://www.treadvokater.se/. She has extensive experience of international criminal law and also practices family, and administrative law. She was formerly chairman of Amnesty International’s Malmo Department from 2004 to 2006.

Jacqueline Hodgson is a Professor of Law at University of Warwick, www.warwick.ac.uk. She has conducted extensive research into the justice systems of France and of England and Wales, looking at the investigation and prosecution of crime (including the suspect’s right to silence). She has provided expert witness reports in a number of European Arrest Warrant and extradition cases.

Paolo Iorio is the Chairman of Avocats Sans Frontieres, Italy, www.asf-italia.it. Paolo has worked for many years as a criminal defence lawyer and has extensive experience in cross-border cases. He is a longstanding supporter and a patron of FTI. He has also assisted in training events organised by FTI.

3 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission. Marion Isobel is an associate legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative in Budapest, www.soros.org. She is a qualified lawyer in the Australian state of Victoria and has been active as both a law professor and legal officer for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She is specialized in international and criminal law.

John Jones is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, www.doughtystreet.co.uk in London. He is a specialist extradition practitioner and author, contributing to the Extradition Law Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2005, with Arvinder Sambei), and Extradition Law Reports (Southside Legal Publishing, 2007).

Dinko Kanchev is a criminal lawyer, a member of the Sofia Bar Association and of the Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation, www.blhr.org/en. He has extensive experience in cross- border and fundamental rights work.

Liese Katschinka is the Chairperson of the EULITA, www.eulita.eu, a Member of the Court and Legal Interpreting Commission of the International Association of Conference Interpreters, and Vice- President of the Austrian Association of Court Interpreters.

Natacha Kazatchkine is the Executive Officer of Amnesty International’s EU office in charge of Legal Affairs/Human Rights in the EU, www.amnesty-eu.org.

Hans Kjellund is a lawyer at Advokaterne Sankt Knuds Torv P/S, Copenhagen, Denmark, http://www.askt.dk/. He practices mainly in criminal and procedural law.

Marije Knapen teaches at Avans Centre for Public Safety & Criminal Justice at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands, www.tilburguniversity.edu. Ms. Knapen has worked as a researcher on European Commission funded reports on pre-trial detention and detention conditions in the EU. She has a particular interest in extradition, defence rights, cross-border criminal justice and EU Law.

Titia Korff is a lawyer with Pijnenburg Advocaten in Amsterdam, Netherlands, www.pijnenburgadvocaten.nl. She has worked at the International Criminal Court and the Dutch prosecution service. Titia also has experience in criminal defence, extradition and juvenile crime.

Maciej Kusmierczyk is an academic in the area of criminal law, cross-border proceedings and human rights and practises at Małecki & Rychłowski, Poland, www.adw.waw.pl. Maciej also teaches criminal procedure at the University of Warsaw with a focus on comparative studies in defence rights.

Dr. Ondrej Laciak is a defence lawyer at Laciak Law Office, Bratislava. He is also Vice-Dean for external relations at Comenius University where he teaches criminal law and criminal procedure. He has been a Research Fellow and has given lectures at universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia and is a member of the Advisory board of the European Criminal Bar Association.

Christiaan Luyckx is a partner of the law firm Van Alsenoy & Partners, Belgium, www.vanalsenoy.be. His practice in criminal law includes VAT-fraud, money laundering, excise duty fraud and human trafficking.

Gabor Magyar is a partner at Magyar György és Társai, a law firm based in Budapest, Hungary, www.magyarugyved.hu. He has worked for the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice and the European Commission. He has experience with human rights law, the European Arrest Warrant, data protection, criminal procedure and tort law.

4 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission. Asya Mandjukova is a partner at Georgieva, Petrov, Nenkov, Georgiev Law Firm in Bulgaria, www.gpng-law.org. She has worked on a number of cross-border criminal defence cases which involved fundamental rights issues.

Katerina Mantouvalou is a Senior Consultant in ICF GHK’s European Social Policy group, specialising in fundamental rights and criminal justice in Europe. She holds a PhD in Political Science from University College London and her research expertise is in minority rights in the European Union. Since joining ICF GHK, Katerina has been involved in several comparative studies, impact assessments and evaluations in the area of justice. Before joining ICF GHK she was a researcher at Fair Trials International and was the author of FTI’s report on consular assistance and trial attendance. Between 2006 and 2010 she gave lectures on EU Politics and Research Methods at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Hugh Mercer QC is a barrister at in London, www.essexcourt.net. His practice covers EU law, Human Rights law, Public and Administrative law and conflict of laws. Hugh has co- authored European Civil Practice (July 2004, Sweet & Maxwell), a major commentary on the Brussels Convention and EU Regulation 44/2001 and applicable EU case law.

Christian Mesia is a Spanish defence lawyer at the Madrid firm RCD Legal & Tax Advisors, www.rcd- bcn.com. He has extensive experience of cross-border criminal work and has assisted many FTI clients involved in extradition proceedings.

Jonathan Mitchell is a barrister at 25 Bedford Row in London, www.25bedfordrow.com. His practice encompasses criminal and civil cases. He is a member of the European Criminal Bar Assn.

Ellen Moerman obtained her Diploma in Legal Translation from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1978 and specialises in legal translation and interpreting. She was called to the Bar in 1998. She interprets both in conference and court settings, translates and assists in training linguists and lawyers in multi-lingual legal proceedings.

Nuala Mole is the founder and Director of the AIRE Centre, www.airecentre.org. She has worked for more than 25 years in the field of human rights. She has written extensively on the European Convention on Human Rights and European Union law. She is on the Board of the European Human Rights Law Review and co-edits the Centre's monthly Bulletin of ECHR case law.

Ondřej Múka is a lawyer at the firm of Advokatni Kancelar in the Czech Republic, www.advokatni- kancelare.com. He specialises in criminal defence, cross border cases, extradition, human rights and data protection.

Patrick Musters is a consultant at the UK law firm of BTMK and Andrew Keenan and Co, www.andrewkeenan.co.uk. He qualified as a solicitor in 1978 and was appointed as a higher court advocate in 1994. He specialises in fraud, multi-jurisdictional crime and banking and revenue offences. He is a member of the European Criminal Bar Association, a lecturer and an author on road traffic offences.

Karla Nahtigal is a Slovenian criminal lawyer at Nahtigal Ltd, http://www.nahtigal- op.si/odvetnica.php. She has specialist knowledge of the procedural rights of criminal defendants within the Slovenian legal system and has worked on several international projects, including a European Commission study ‘The Rights of Defendants in Criminal Proceedings’.

Zaza Namoradze is a Director of the Budapest office of the Open Society Justice Initiative who oversees programmes on legal aid reform, access to justice and effective defence rights, www.soros.org/initiatives/justice.

5 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission.

Anders K Németh is a Danish defence attorney at the Copenhagen law firm Advokatselskabet Anders K Németh, http://www.aknlaw.dk. His practice covers all aspects of criminal law in general, with a special focus on white collar crime, often with cross border aspects.

Fernando Niembro is a lawyer at the Spanish firm Estudio Juridico, www.estudiojuridico.cl, specialising in criminal law.

Ali Norouzi is a partner at Widmaier Norouzi Rechtsanwälte, Germany, www.herrenstrasse23.de. Ali has also worked in research at the University of Tübingen, where he completed his PhD thesis on transnational evidence law. Ali specialises in criminal appeals cases and has defended numerous extradition cases.

Anna Ogorodova is researcher at the University of Maastricht, www.maastrichtuniversity.nl. Her research focuses on defence rights, criminal legal aid and criminal procedure in the EU. Previously Anna worked as Associate Legal Officer for the National Criminal Justice Reform program of the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Neil Paterson currently works at Steunpunt Algemeen Welzijnswerk, Belgium, www.steunpunt.be, co-ordinating prison social work services. Formerly Neil worked as a researcher on detention issues and prison reform with the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy at the University of Ghent.

Roumen Petrov is a partner at Georgieva Petrov Nenkov Georgiev Law Firm, Bulgaria, www.gpng- law.org. He specialises in European law, privacy and data protection, cross-border criminal justice and extradition.

Nicholas Philpot is a retired English Judge with extensive criminal law experience.

Mikolaj Pietrzak is a partner at Pietrzak & Sidor in Poland, www.pietrzaksidor.pl, with experience in a wide range of legal work, including defending European Arrest Warrant cases.

Matthew Pinches represents the UK NGO Prisoners Abroad, a UK-based charity dedicated to supporting British citizens imprisoned overseas, www.prisonersabroad.org.uk.

Renata Pinter is a solicitor at Tuckers Solicitors in London, www.tuckerssolicitors.co.uk. Originally from Hungary, Renata specialises in cross-border work, especially the European Arrest Warrant.

Georgios Pyromallis is the head of the George Pyromallis Law office, Athens. From 1994 until 2006 he worked as an associate in the criminal litigation department at Anagnostopoulos Bazinas & Fifis Law Offices. George works on a range of defence matters including extradition.

Jozef Rammelt is a partner at Keizer Advocaten in Amsterdam, www.keizeradvocaten.nl, and specialises in international criminal law, extradition and repatriation cases. Jozef is a co-founder of the EuroMoS foundation, http://euromos.org a Dutch NGO dedicated to monitoring the treatment of suspects and defendants in EU Member States. Jozef is a long-time supporter of FTI and is a Patron.

Olivier Rangeon is a lawyer based in France. He has particular interest in cross-border criminal justice and human rights.

Tunde Marika Renner is a lawyer based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She specializes in criminal law.

6 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission.

Dara Robinson is an Irish solicitor at Sheehan & Partners, www.sheehanandpartners.ie. He specialises in criminal work and has substantial cross-border experience.

Federico Romoli is lawyer at Studio Legale Romoli in Florence, and also working on a PhD at the University of Florence. He has a particular interest in ECtHR applications, EU law, cross-border white collar and organized crime, prison law and EAW/extradition cases.

Daniel Roos is a criminal lawyer at Advokatfirman Sederholm in Sweden, www.sederholm.se. He has a particular interest in human rights law and cross-border criminal justice issues.

Zuzanna Rudzińska is a lawyer at the firm Wardyński and Partners, in Warsaw, Poland, www.wardynski.com.pl. She has a particular interest in cross-border criminal justice and defence rights.

Stefan Schumann is a lawyer and a lecturer at the University of Linz, Austria, http://www.jku.at/content. Prior to this he worked at the German Foreign Office. His research focuses on transnational criminal justice and a systematic approach to European criminal law, human rights, and on the interaction of European, international and domestic law.

Jeroen Soeteman is a partner at Jebbink Soetetman advocaten in Amsterdam http://www.jebbinksoeteman.nl/advocaten.php. He specialises in international extradition and criminal law including financial and economic cases, and is an active member of the European Association of Defence Lawyers.

Elias Stephanou is a partner at KSCP Juris http://kscp.com.cy/ in Nicosia, Cyprus. He is an expert representative in criminal matters to the Committee of the European Union and the Council of Europe. He has published a number of articles on the European Arrest Warrant.

Dominika Stępińska-Duch is an adwokat and a member of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice Group at Wardyński and Partners law firm http://www.wardynski.com.pl/. She specialises particularly in criminal litigation. Dominika is a member of the European Criminal Bar Association and acts as a patron for adwokat trainees.

Brian Storan is a Criminal Defence Barrister practicing at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

Martynas Tamosaitis is an associate lawyer at APB Meidus ir Juzukonis in Vilnius, Lithunia. His particular areas of interest are defence rights, extradition and human rights.

Jaanus Tehver is a partner at law firm Tehver & Partners in Tallinn, Estonia, http://www.tehver.ee/eng.html. He specialises in cross border criminal cases and has written about the European Arrest Warrant.

Karen Todner is Managing Director of Kaim Todner Solicitors, London, http://www.kaimtodner.com. She has extensive experience in dealing with high profile cases particularly in relation to extradition and serious criminal matters.

Janusz Tomczak is a lawyer at the firm Wardynski and Partners, in Warsaw, Poland, www.wardynski.com.pl. He practises in cross-border criminal cases in which fundamental rights issues arise and has experience of representing non-nationals accused of business crime. Janusz belongs to ECBA and the IBA.

7 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission. Balázs Tóth is an independent expert on prison conditions. He is also a member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, www.helsinki.hu.

Dominique Tricaud is a French lawyer based in Paris. He is a partner at Tricaud-Traynard Avocats Associés, www.tricaudtraynard-avocatsassocies.com. He has substantial experience in fundamental rights law and has worked with FTI on several cases with a cross-border dimension including EAW cases. Dominique has recently become a Patron of FTI.

Alexandros Tsagkalidis is an associate at Anagnostopoulos Law Firm www.iag.gr . He specializes in criminal Law, cybercrime, corruption practices, financial crime and freezing of assets.

Han Vallenduuk is a partner at Vallenduuk Advocaten, Haarlem, Netherlands, www.vallenduuk.nl. He specialises in criminal cases, particularly ones involving foreign drivers found with drugs in their vehicles.

Jørn Vestergaard is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Copenhagen, http://jura.ku.dk/jv. He has published books, articles and reports on a wide range of topics, including the European Arrest Warrant and other mutual recognition instruments. He is the head of the University of Copenhagen research group on European and International Criminal Law, http://jura.ku.dk/eicrim.

Marianne Wade is a senior lecturer at the University of . Previously, Marianne worked at the University of Göttingen and at the Max Planck Institute (Germany). Marianne has particular expertise in European criminal law and criminal justice, and is currently working on an empirical study on the need for a European criminal justice system. http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ija

Oliver Wallasch is a practising attorney at Wallasch & Koch in Frankfurt, www.wallasch-koch.de. His practice encompasses criminal defence work, extradition proceedings and international criminal law. He is a long-time supporter of FTI, has assisted at many FTI training events and is a Patron.

Johanna Wöran works at the German Bundestag, www.bundestag.de. She is specialises in human rights, privacy, data protection and refugee law. She is a former participant in the Young Defenders programme.

Sabine Zanker was head of the casework team at FTI before joining Hibiscus, http://fpwphibiscus.org.uk, which provides support for female detainees of all ethnic origins and nationalities within the UK criminal justice system. Sabine specialises in assisting EU prisoners with regard to their legal and other rights.

8 This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission.