R v P (2019)
Instructed on behalf of a defendant charged with possession of firearms and ammunition when prohibited involving expert evidence as to the defence of antique firearms.
To instruct Reka please contact our Clerks on +44 (0)20 7400 6400 or email clerks@3rblaw.com.
Reka Hollos’s practice encompasses a broad mixture of crime, regulatory and public law, with a particular interest in cross-border crime, extradition and public inquiries.
Reka is regularly instructed for both the prosecution and defence before the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts.
Reka is experienced at representing defendants with learning difficulties or mental health conditions and is able to advise and examine experts, provide representation in fitness to plead proceedings and deal with intermediaries/appropriate adults. She has completed specialist training on dealing with vulnerable witnesses.
Reka provides advice to individuals in cases arising out of their involvement with the criminal justice system, even where no criminal proceedings have (yet) been brought including applications for details to be removed from the Police National Computer database and letters of representation to prosecuting agencies to dissuade them from continuing proceedings.
Reka is able to advise on appeals against sentence and conviction.
Instructed on behalf of a defendant charged with possession of firearms and ammunition when prohibited involving expert evidence as to the defence of antique firearms.
Secured a suspended sentence for a defendant charged with making over 50,000 indecent images of children of categories A-C.
Instructed on behalf of a defendant in a multi-handed fraud by false representation and money laundering in a cross-border ‘phishing’ scam.
Represented two defendants in an allegation of sexual assault and ABH which resulted in the CPS offering no evidence after an application to adduce the complainant’s bad character.
Reka is developing an extensive practice in public and administrative law with a particular focus on inquests and public inquiries.
She has had significant involvement in a number of public inquiries. She is currently instructed as junior counsel for the Metropolitan Police Service in connection with the Inquiry into Undercover Policing and is providing legal advice and representation for a school in connection with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. She has previously carried out a disclosure review instructed by the London Fire Brigade in connection with the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Reka is well-versed in advising a range of lay and professional clients, including on sensitive issues raising matters of public interest immunity and legal professional privilege.
Reka also acts on behalf of interested persons in inquest proceedings and is able to advise on potential liabilities arising from coronial proceedings.
She accepts instructions on behalf of the government, public bodies, and individuals.
Instructed by the Metropolitan Police Service.
Acting on behalf of a school as part of the residential schools inquiry.
Acting on behalf of a school in an inquest into the death of a young boy.
Reka appears on behalf of requested persons and judicial authorities in extradition cases, at both first instance on appeal to the Administrative Court.
Appeal against extradition on s.10 (dual criminality) grounds.
Provided legal advice to an individual who was the subject of a request for MLA in connection with criminal proceedings abroad. Following representations, the individual’s assistance was no longer required.
Reka undertook a secondment to Kingsley Napley LLP as an Associate Barrister presenting fitness to practice cases on behalf of the Health and Care Professions Council. Reka was responsible for the presentation of cases involving a range of allegations from dishonesty, sexual misconduct and fraud to poor record-keeping and previous convictions/cautions.
Reka acts and advises in civil matters, often arising from criminal or coronial proceedings.
Reka is currently instructed by the Metropolitan Police Service as second junior led by Andrew Warnock QC and Sarah Le Fevre in a civil claim arising out of the death of Mark Duggan.
Reka also appears in applications for civil preventative orders including Closure Orders, Forced Marriage Protection Orders, Domestic Violence Protection Orders and Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, both in the Magistrates’ Court and on appeal to the Crown Court.
Junior counsel instructed by the Metropolitan Police Service in a civil claim for damages arising out of the death of Mark Duggan.
Junior counsel instructed by the Metropolitan Police Service in a claim for damages before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Reka is regularly instructed to carry out disclosure and legal professional privilege reviews. She has been instructed as independent counsel by the Metropolitan Police Service and HMRC.
Reka also provides written advice on other matters within her areas of practice.
To instruct Reka please contact our Clerks on +44 (0)20 7400 6400 or email clerks@3rblaw.com.
Before coming to the Bar, Reka gained considerable experience in the field of public international law. She has worked as a research assistant advising on such matters as diplomatic immunity, law of the sea and arbitrary detention. Prior to this, she served as a law clerk to Judge van den Wyngaert at the International Criminal Court on the cases of Prosecutor v Germain Katanga and Prosecutor v Laurent Gbagbo working in both English and French.
While undertaking her legal training, Reka volunteered for the Media Legal Defence Initiative assisting in the drafting of a communication to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights concerning the arbitrary detention of journalists imprisoned under Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
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I, Reka Hollos, 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 reka.hollos@3rblaw.com. My Data Protection Policy can be found below.
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 be obtained directly from the data subject (e.g. 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:
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, ‘white listed’ by the EU or otherwise permitted by EU law (e.g. to the USA under the provisions of the ‘Privacy Shield’).
Under the 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 the legal services.
Rev 1.1 – 25.05.2018
Reka Hollos is qualified to accept instructions direct from clients under the Bar Council’s Public Access Scheme. This means that members of the public who seek specialist advice can come direct to him. In addition, he welcomes instructions from solicitors, in-house law departments, qualified foreign lawyers, and clients licensed by the Bar Council to give instructions direct to barristers under the Bar Council’s Licensed Access Scheme.
For further information please contact our Clerks.
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