News: International Law

Turkey fails in attempt to extradite media boss from UK

Turkey has failed in a final attempt to extradite a dispossessed media proprietor to Ankara to face financial charges...

11th April 2019

US, EU and UK Sanctions

Rachel Barnes was a guest lecturer at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, the first and...

8th April 2019

OFSI gears up to use its civil enforcement powers

Rachel Barnes, Patrick Hill & Genevieve Woods have recently published an article on UK sanctions enforcement, originally...

7th March 2019

Politically motivated extradition request by Turkey refused

Westminster Magistrates' Court discharged three men alleged to be leaders of the Gulenist movement. The court found that the...

28th November 2018

Mrs A – extradition request for lady alleged to have spent £16m at Harrods

Mrs Hajiyeva was granted bail pending the hearing of the request for her extradition by the Government of Azerbaijan. Hugo...

6th November 2018

Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict calls for urgent international law reform

The legal report of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict has called for urgent and far-reaching reforms of...

2nd November 2018

Ex-HSBC FX Trader Wins Rare U.K. Order Blocking Extradition to U.S.

Stuart Scott, the former head of currency trading at HSBC Holdings Plc, won a last-ditch battle to block his extradition to...

1st August 2018

‘Trading Blows’: Rachel Barnes is quoted in The Law Gazette sanctions article

Rachel Barnes is quoted in 'Trading Blows', a feature article in The Law Society Gazette on the practical fallout of new US...

23rd May 2018

High Court judgment in Iraqi Civilians v Ministry of Defence

Mr Justice Leggatt today handed down judgment in the cases of four lead claimants, which were heard in two separate trials....

14th December 2017

Peter Ferdinand acquitted of conspiracy to bribe

Hugo Keith QC and Rachel Kapila acted for Peter Ferdinand in the SFO's latest case of overseas bribery. Mr Ferdinand was...

27th September 2017