Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Extradition33
Public and administrative law25
Crime8
Civil liberties and human rights4
Immigration and asylum2
Media, defamation and privacy1

Courts

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)4
High Court35

Counsel most often instructed

Ben Watson4
Mark Summers3

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Cases later courts cite most

Cases Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
23 Nov 2007	Krzyzowski v Circuit Court In Gliwice, Poland [2007] EWHC 2754 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Under section 14 of the Extradition Act 2003, deliberate flight from the requesting state to avoid prosecution ordinarily prevents reliance on delay as making…	10
8 Apr 2009	Brown (aka Vincent Bajinja) & Ors v Government of Rwanda & Ors [2009] EWHC 770 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Extradition under the Extradition Act 2003 is incompatible with Article 6 where there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice in the requesting state. A…	6
28 Jul 2017	Government of Rwanda v Nteziryayo & Ors [2017] EWHC 1912 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Extradition may be barred under Article 6 where there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice. The test requires more than ordinary procedural defects…	6
20 Apr 2011	Griffin, R (on the application of) v City of Westminster Magistrates Court [2011] EWHC 943 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition hearing may proceed in the requested person’s absence where the person is represented. Representation is treated as presence unless an enactment…	3
19 Dec 2006	Sidlauskaite v Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Lithuania [2006] EWHC 3486 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In an extradition warrant, the alleged conduct must be identified with sufficient certainty, but the court need not impose the technical detail required in an…	3

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
19 Dec 2018	Malik & Ors v Public Prosecutors Office in Augsberg, Germany [2018] EWHC 3479 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Further information supplied under the extradition framework may reduce the offences for which surrender is sought, provided the warrant remains sufficiently…
28 Jul 2017	Government of Rwanda v Nteziryayo & Ors [2017] EWHC 1912 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Extradition may be barred under Article 6 where there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice. The test requires more than ordinary procedural defects…	6
21 Dec 2016	Cupi v The Government of Albania [2016] EWHC 3288 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court For section 85(5) of the Extradition Act 2003, an effective legal entitlement to a retrial may remain subject to procedural steps, including proof that the…	1
27 Mar 2014	VB & Ors v Westminster Magistrates' Court & Ors [2014] EWHC 889 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A magistrates’ court conducting an extradition hearing cannot receive and rely on evidence tendered by one party which is not disclosed to the other, unless…	1
20 Apr 2011	Griffin, R (on the application of) v City of Westminster Magistrates Court [2011] EWHC 943 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition hearing may proceed in the requested person’s absence where the person is represented. Representation is treated as presence unless an enactment…	3
4 Nov 2009	Atanasova v HMP Holloway & Anor [2009] EWHC 2740 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Under section 11(3) of the Extradition Act 1989, an applicant must be discharged where the accusation is not made in good faith in the interests of justice and…
8 Apr 2009	Brown (aka Vincent Bajinja) & Ors v Government of Rwanda & Ors [2009] EWHC 770 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Extradition under the Extradition Act 2003 is incompatible with Article 6 where there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice in the requesting state. A…	6
8 Apr 2009	Brown (aka Vincent Bajinja) & Ors v Government of Rwanda [2009] EWHC 1473 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A certification application will be refused where the proposed question does not arise on the material facts found by the court. A later authority on Article 6…	2
4 Mar 2009	Von Der Pahlen v Leoben High Court, Austria [2009] EWHC 383 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court For an extradition warrant to comply with section 2(4)(c) of the Extradition Act 2003, it must give sufficient information to identify what the requested…	1
10 Jun 2008	Bogdani v Albanian Government [2008] EWHC 1550 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition appeal may be adjourned to allow the requesting state a further opportunity to provide evidence on whether the statutory and Convention…
23 Nov 2007	Krzyzowski v Circuit Court In Gliwice, Poland [2007] EWHC 2754 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Under section 14 of the Extradition Act 2003, deliberate flight from the requesting state to avoid prosecution ordinarily prevents reliance on delay as making…	10
6 Feb 2007	Srama v District Court of Bydgoszsz [2007] EWHC 666 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Where a requesting authority withdraws an extradition request in relation to one of several offences before extradition, the appropriate judge must discharge…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.