Campaspe Lloyd Jacob has a broad practice with a particular focus on crime, extradition, inquests & professional discipline.

Legal Expertise

Crime overview

Campaspe’s busy criminal practice encompasses all areas of crime. She has appeared in numerous fraud and terrorist cases as well as drugs cases, and cases alleging violence, rape and sexual assault. She is used to dealing with both very vulnerable and also highly articulate clients.

She has recently, successfully defended a young man charged with kidnap, robbery and running the Southend class A drugs market, as well as a large number of police officers (in front of both the criminal courts and at professional disciplinary hearings). She has recently persuaded the CPS to offer no evidence in a case of rape, non-fatal strangulation, ABH and police misconduct. She has also recently appeared in the Court of Appeal to successfully oppose the Solicitor General’s application to overturn one of her client’s sentences. (An Attorney General’s reference on the basis that it was unduly lenient).  She has obtained the discharge of a freezing order for a client who was being investigated for fraud, successfully responded in Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson’s) appeal of a stalking prevention order and helped secure a senior officer’s acquittal on a blackmail charge.

Notable Crime cases

R v Fitzgerald [2024] EWCA 414, Singh LJ, Jay J, HHJ Mayo

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Southwark Crown Court, 12-18 October 2023

R v GK, Northampton Crown Court, August 2023

In the matter of AJ and the Proceeds of Crime Act, Woolwich Crown Court, intermittently, Dec 2022-June 2023

R v JD and others, Chelmsford Crown Court, May 2023

Extradition overview

Campaspe has a wealth of extradition experience and has appeared in many high-profile extradition cases over the years, appearing both for foreign governments and for those seeking to resist extradition. She has made a speciality of representing Italian clients and identifying Article 6 breaches in Italian legal proceedings. She was part of the prosecution team in Pinochet and she was a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws extradition section. She also initiated the successful appeal, and consequent compensation claim, of Nicholas Mullen who had – decades earlier – been sentenced to 30 years for conspiracy to cause explosions. She was also instructed in the transfer of Tharcisse Muvunyi to the ICTR.

Notable Extradition cases

Migliorelli v Govt of Italy

2006 EWHC 243 (Admin) Trial in absence in Italy breached Article 6 rights

Mitoi v Romania

2006 EWHC 1977 (Admin)

R v Bow St Magistrates’ Court and others ex p Pinochet Ugarte

(Nos 1-3) [2001] 1 AC 61, HL, [2001] 1 AC 119, HL, [2001] 1 AC 119, HL

Crown Prosecution Services v Saia

Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court) [2001] EWHC Admin 997

Mullen v Regina

[1999] Cr App R143 CA R v Secretary of State for Home Department ex parte Nicholas Mullen [2002] EWHC 230 (Admin); [2002] 1 WLR 1857, DC; [2003] 2 WLR 835, CA; [2004] 2 WLR 1140, HL; [2005] 1 AC 1

Professional Discipline overview

Campaspe appears before disciplinary tribunals seeking to avoid damaging outcomes for professional individuals.  She regularly appears in Police Misconduct hearings to represent officers who are facing all manner of allegations.  Recently, she has obtained ‘not proven’ findings for clients facing charges of rape, sexual assault and financial impropriety.

Inquests & Inquiries overview

Campaspe accepts instructions on all matters relating to inquests and public inquiries.

R v Bow St Magistrates’ Court and others ex p Pinochet Ugarte
(Nos 1-3) [2001] 1 AC 61, HL, [2001] 1 AC 119, HL, [2001] 1 AC 119, HL

Migliorelli v Govt of Italy
2006 EWHC 243 (Admin)
Trial in absence in Italy breached Article 6 rights

Mullen v Regina
[1999] Cr App R143 CA
R v Secretary of State for Home Department ex parte Nicholas Mullen [2002] EWHC 230 (Admin); [2002] 1 WLR 1857, DC; [2003] 2 WLR 835, CA; [2004] 2 WLR 1140, HL; [2005] 1 AC 1

Extradition Lawyers Associations
DELF
Criminal Bar Association

Languages
Fluent Italian
Fluent French

Oxford University MA
English and Italian
City University Dip Law
Inns of Court School of Law
Called to the Bar:  Gray’s Inn, 1990
UEA MA in Creative Writing

A novel, Ophelia in Pieces, under the name Clare Jacob. Published by Short Books. ISBN 978-1-907595-49-3

An opera, The Face, performed at Gray’s Inn (Campaspe wrote the libretto. Music by Christopher Bowers Broadbent)

Campaspe has taught English to refugees (through the Refugee Council and Southwark Asylum Seekers Day Care Centre).

She has appeared for residents in a planning appeal and received a Southwark civic award.

I, Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob, am a data controller and can be contacted at 3 Raymond Buildings, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5BH or by telephone on 020 7400 6400 or by email at campaspe.lloyd-jacob@3rblaw.com.  My Data Protection Policy can be found here.

All personal data that I process is for the purposes of providing legal services, conducting conflict-checks, marketing, defending potential complaints, legal proceedings or fee disputes, keeping anti-money laundering records, training other barristers and pupils and when providing work-shadowing opportunities, and/or exercising a right to a lien.  The types of data I process vary upon the nature of the legal matter in relation to which I am engaged to advise, but can include names, contact details, biographic details and ‘special category personal data’ (such as details of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health, sex life and criminal convictions and proceedings).

Depending upon the circumstances of the case, the legal bases upon which I process personal data are (i) the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (ii) the processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations to which I am subject, or (iii) the processing is necessary for the legitimate interests set out above, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subjects which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.  When I rely on (iii) legitimate interests, my ‘Legitimate Interests Assessment’ can be found here.  When I process data which has not been obtained directly from the data subject (eg personal data contained in evidential materials), it will have been supplied to me as part of my instructions in circumstances covered by legal professional privilege.

Depending upon the circumstances of the case, I may share the personal data with:

  1. my Chambers, which supplies professional and administrative support to my practice;
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  6. ombudsmen and regulatory authorities;
  7. current, past or prospective employers;
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I retain personal data for no longer than 7 years after the case has come to an end or as otherwise required by law.

I do not intend to transfer data to any country which is not either within the European Union, or otherwise permitted by UK data protection legislation.

Under the UK GDPR, data subjects whose personal data I process have the right to request from me access to, and rectification or erasure of, their personal data, the right to the restriction of processing concerning them, the right to object to processing as well as the right to data portability.  Data subjects also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

In cases where there is a contract between me and the data subject, the provision of personal data is a contractual requirement and the data subject is obliged to provide the personal data in order that I can supply legal services.  A failure to provide such data may mean that I will not be able to provide those legal services.

Rev 2.1 07.12.2022

Data Protection Policy

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