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, London, 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, fraud, 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 Doughty Street Chambers, 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 solicitor 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 Solicitors, 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 Advocate who practises through the Advocates 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, immigration 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.