Andrew Hall KC

Door Tenant

Year of Call: 1991
Year of Silk: 2002

Continuing Professional Development

Has lectured on a variety of topics, including sexual offences and issues of disclosure in such cases, trials of mentally ill defendants, the presentation of expert evidence.He has longstanding involvement with professional training, and with legal sector capacity building projects overseas, particularly in Africa, and is a winner of the Bar Pro Bono Award for this work. Human rights work overseas has included missions to Syria, Sudan, and Burma.

Areas Of Specialism

Murder & Manslaughter, Terrorism

Other Information

Languages

Spanish

 

 

Career overview

Practice Summary

Andrew Hall KC is a door tenant at Citadel Chambers with a very extensive experience in all types of homicide, as well as large scale drugs and other excise conspiracies. In recent years has been instructed in a significant number of high profile terrorism cases.

 

Details of practice

Andrew Hall is consistently named as a leader in his field and has a busy and high profile practice in serious crime. He is a member of the Panel of Defence Counsel at the International Criminal Court, and a member of the International Criminal Law Team at Doughty Street Chambers. He led the Bar team that set up library facilities, and provided advocacy training at the Special Court in Sierra Leone. Andrew has particular expertise in terrorism cases and regularly appears as leading counsel in the most difficult, complex and high profile of murder trials.

Murder & Manslaughter
  • A selection of illustrative recent cases are:
  • John Russell The “Trusthorpe murders” – double revenge murder by shooting of retired couple ordered by notorious Nottingham gangster
  • Livingstone Fleming Gang related robbery and murder
  • Omar Mubarak Contract “honour killing”
  • Anton Richards (gangland shooting in barber shop
  • Shoaib Khan (notorious Huddersfield “Sikh shopkeeper murder” during robbery
  • Jason Nwogbe The Victoria Station murder of a schoolboy
  • Damien Fowkes Attempted murder of Ian Huntley, and murder of another prisoner, by lifer
  • Sodiq Adeojo  Peckham gang shooting, and double stabbing
  • Devonte Campbell  Double murder in gangland feud
  • Natasha Elderfield Killing of abusive lover
  • Gowrie Loganathan Axe murder during Sri Lankan gang brawl
  • Steven Jones Manslaughter arising from “knock and run” prank
  • Reial Phillips Multiple attempted murders by shooting in Birmingham gangland wars.
Terrorism
  • Andrew has appeared as leading counsel in many of the highest profile terrorism cases of recent years, including the cases of those alleged to have conducted hostile reconnaissance of London targets for the 7/7 bombers.
  • Sadeer Saleem The “7/7 London Bombings”
  • Rajib Khan The ” Al Quaeda Websites Case “
  • Sohail Qureshi “The Lyrical Terrorist”
  • Waseem Khan Soliciting terrorist murder by Al Mujaharoun
  • Ali Beheshti Firebombing of London publishers following “insults to the Prophet” in book
  • Mohammed Shahjahan [2012] Plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange
  • Michael Coe attempt to travel to wage jihad in Iraq
  • Ahmed and Ahmed Brother’s plan to travel and fight in Syria for ISIS
  • Junead Khan US airman beheading plot
  • Soumaya Boufassil terrorist fundraising linked to individuals in the Paris shootings and Belgian bombing conspiracies.

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Further Information

Publications

He is the author or co-author of several books on criminal justice issues, and regularly lectures on advocacy and other legal topics, including terrorism and human rights, both here and abroad.

Memberships
  • Member and former Chairman, of the Criminal Bar Association.
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Commonwealth Bar Association

Andrew served for a number of years as a member of the Bar Council and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and served as Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association. Since 2010 he has been a trustee of the Kalisher Trust, a charity providing scholarships and other awards to talented Criminal Bar entrants who need financial support.

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Witness Familiarisation Support And Courses

These are a few examples of courses in which our members have been involved:

  • Witness familiarisation with trainee police officers and special constables from Northamptonshire Police, where the officers were questioned regarding their statements about ‘mock’ arrest exercises
  • Similar exercises with detectives from the West Midlands Police
  • Witness familiarisation with officers of the Northamptonshire Probation Service.  These officers were given training on the process of giving evidence in sentencing hearings in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court
  • Expert witness familiarisation and training, with expert witnesses such as independent Forensic Scientists, and officers of the Health and Safety Executive. The exercises involved questioning regarding expert reports prepared by the participants

Equal Opportunity Policy

 

Citadel’s members come from a range of backgrounds and everyone is treated with the same respect as part of our Chamber’s community. 

 

We operate an equal opportunity policy and act in accordance with the Bar Code of Conduct and the Equality Code for the Bar.

 

We seek to prevent direct or indirect discrimination towards our clients, staff, tenants and pupils, on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality or citizenship, political persuasion, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or age.

Maternity / Paternity Policy

We support all members  who  are fortunate enough to become parents.   Whilst Citadel has written policies dealing with issues of maternity and paternity leave for members of Chambers and support staff, we also try to be flexible in our approach and to accommodate individual needs.

Uniquely (to our knowledge) we offer direct financial support to members returning from parental leave in order to cushion the cash flow impact of return to practice . 

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