Andrew Hall QC

Andrew Hall is consistently named as a leader in his field. His practice at Doughty Street Chambers is exclusively in crime with a strong emphasis on civil liberties and human rights. Andrew has very extensive experience in all types of homicide, large scale drugs and other excise conspiracies, and has been instructed in a number of high profile terrorism cases. In addition he has developed expertise in large scale benefit, mortgage, revenue and commercial frauds. He is a former solicitor and before transfer to the Bar in 1990 was a partner in the London firm of Hodge Jones & Allen and Head of the Criminal Law Department.

Andrew also maintains a range of linked activities outside of professional practice. He has lectured, published and broadcast for a number of years on issues relating to the criminal justice system and has advised national organisations, including Liberty, The Legal Action Group, Justice and the National Association of Probation Officers on proposed legislation. He has prepared submissions and given evidence on behalf of the Law Centres' Federation, Liberty and the Legal Action Group to the last two Royal Commissions on Criminal Procedure. Andrew has also regularly lectured on public courses and conferences and presented papers by invitation at the Universities of London, Warwick, Kent, Birmingham, The London School of Economics, The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Association of Forensic Psychotherapists. He was involved in the design and conduct of the Law Society qualifying course of the Solicitors' Higher Courts Advocacy Certificate. He has lectured on behalf of the Bar Overseas Advocacy Committee since 1996 in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Tanzania.

He is active in the Bar Human Rights Committee and devised and delivered the Library Resources Project in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Botswana, Sudan and Zambia, together with training in the prosecution of corruption and fraud for the Director of Public Prosecutions in Tanzania (2000), and a continuing programme of advocacy skills training for the profession in Malawi. Andrew was the co-ordinator of the BHRC International Human Rights CD-Rom Project which facilitated the publication and free distribution internationally of core human rights texts in digital format, funded by the Lord Chancellor's Department. In 2002 he led human rights missions on behalf of the Bar to both Burma and Sudan and in 2003 worked extensively with the Special Court for Sierra Leone in establishing library facilities and specialist training programmes for defenders and counsel of the Office of the Prosecutor. In 2004, he visited Cameroon, China and Cambodia in relation to human rights projects, including the death penalty issue, and in December 2004 visited Syria to deliver seminars on international human rights issues at the University in Damascus. In November 2004 he was presented with the Sydney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award for outstanding commitment to pro bono work.

Andrew was a member of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales until 2007 and held the office of Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. He served as Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association between 2006 and 2007

He is a member of Justice, Amnesty International, Liberty and the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association.

last updated November 2007

Year of Call

1991

Admitted Solicitor

1980

Queen's Counsel

2002

Education

LLB (Hons), MA Criminology

Email Address

a.hall@doughtystreet.co.uk

Specialist Teams

Andrew Hall QC is a member of the following specialist law teams:

• Criminal Law
• Human Rights