Ryan Dowding

• Criminal Bar Association
• Young Fraud Lawyers Association

• Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding)
• University of Sussex, LLM in International Human Rights Law (Distinction)
• University of Sussex, LLB (Hons) (First Class, second in year)

Scholarships/Prizes

• Certificate of Honour, Middle Temple (2017)
• Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple (2016)
• Blackstone Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple (2016)
• Excellence Scholarship, BPP (2016)
• Joint award for Highest Mark on an LLM Dissertation, University of Sussex (2017)
• Magna Carta Moot – Winner, Inner Temple (2016)
• International Criminal Trial Advocacy Competition – Semi-Finalist, Symbiosis Law School, India (2016)
• Best Performance on the Final Year of the LLB, University of Sussex (2015)
• Inner Temple Intervarsity Moot – Winner (2015)
• Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition – Semi-Finalist & Best Overall Advocate (2014)
• First Generation Scholarship, University of Sussex (2013)
• Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding)
• LLM in International Human Rights Law (Distinction), University of Sussex
• LLB (Hons) (First Class), University of Sussex

• ‘Absent-Mindedness – The Alstom Appeal and the Future of the Identification Principle’ (YFLA Summer Newsletter, 2019)
• ‘The Case of Jimenez – Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in a Post-KBR World’ (YFLA Spring Newsletter, 2019)
• ‘A Little Help From my Friends: Why Sajid Javid’s Letter may have Broken the Law’ (Guest Post, The Secret Barrister, August 2018)

During pupillage, Ryan assisted in the preparation of objections to an individual’s appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against his extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

Ryan also gained experience of contempt proceedings and assisted in a successful application to the Commercial Court by a Nigerian businessman to ‘purge’ his contempt.

Before coming to the Bar, Ryan completed his LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Sussex. During his time at university, he co-founded Your Rights Matter: a small organisation which published articles online and visited schools and colleges to teach students about human rights law. He also carried out work for the Free Representation Unit. The following year, alongside studying for his BPTC, Ryan taught the law of evidence and criminal procedure to undergraduates. He also volunteered to assist with projects including Vocalise through which he and other BPTC students led debating classes for inmates at prisons around London.

I, Ryan Dowding, 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 ryan.dowding@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:

1. my Chambers, which supplies professional and administrative support to my practice;
2. Courts and other tribunals to whom documents are presented;
3. my lay and professional clients;
4. potential witnesses, in particular experts, and friends or family of the data subject;
5. solicitors, barristers, pupils, mini pupils and other legal representatives;
6. ombudsmen and regulatory authorities;
7. current, past or prospective employers;
8. education and examining bodies;
9. business associates, professional advisers and trade bodies.

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 11.04.2019

Data Protection Policy

Legitimate Interests Assessment