Recent work

Business Crime

– Acting for an individual in an SFO prosecution for bribery offences.

– Acting for an executive of a household name company in connection with a major police investigation.

– Advising an individual in a DOJ/FCA investigation into the trading of dollar SSA bonds.

– Advised a suspect in the SFO investigation into Tesco.

Criminal Litigation

– Acted for ‘Boy B’ who was acquitted of offences of conspiracy to rob and perverting the course of justice following the fatal stabbing of Yousef Makki in Manchester.

– Secured no further action for a teenage client accused of rape. Edward advised the client in interview.

– Successfully represented an individual charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Expert defence witnesses were instructed from the UK and USA to give their opinion on the phenomenon of “looming” that led to the CPS offering no evidence shortly before trial.

– Obtained NFA’s for two clients accused of being involved in an affray during a West Ham football match at the London Stadium.

– Secured the acquittal of a client who faced trial for the alleged theft of a bottle of wine valued in excess of £7,000.

– Successful representation of an individual accused of raping a co-worker. No further action was taken against the client after a yearlong police investigation.

– Successfully drafted representations to the CPS, resulting in a client not being charged for allegations of child abduction.

Extradition

– Acted for an Ecuadorian national in the first extradition request to the UK from Ecuador. The client was discharged from the extradition proceedings.

– Acted for an individual whose extradition was sought by the USA in connection with the ‘tuna bond’ scandal.

– Secured the discharge of a British national whose extradition was sought by Greece following his conviction in absence that resulted in a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.

– Secured the discharge of a British national whose extradition was sought by the UAE for fraud offences.

– Obtained the discharge of a female sought on a Russian extradition request on the grounds that she would face a real risk of ill treatment in the female prison system.

– Successfully appealed the decision of a District Judge to send to the Secretary of State the case of Retired Lieutenant Shankaran. The case was an Indian request for extradition relating to the so-called ‘Naval War Room Leak’.

INTERPOL

– Secured the deletion of red notices issued at the request of the UAE authorities for a British couple.

– Obtained interim measures for a client blocking the circulation of a ‘diffusion’ and ‘notice’ via INTERPOL’s channels whilst the CCF considered substantive representations.

– Secured the deletion of a red notice for a British national who was the subject of a red notice for issuing a ‘bounced cheque’.

– Persuaded the CCF to recommend to the General Secretariat of INTERPOL that a red notice application for his client not be processed on the grounds it would breach INTERPOL’s Constitution to do so.

Latest Posts

• Jury unanimity in the UK and US – what is the verdict?
• ’Brextradition’ – An analysis of the surrender arrangements between the UK and EU27 post-Brexit
• What the Coronavirus Act 2020 means for extradition proceedings
• Edward Grange comments on Chawla v Government of India in Criminal Law Week
• Edward Grange and Andrew Smith comment in The Times on Carlos Ghosn
• Edward Grange comments on US Diplomat charge in the media
• The Central Park Five
• Edward Grange comments in Thomson Reuters’ Criminal Law Week regarding extradition
• Edward Grange comments on Anne Sacoolas in The Telegraph
• The Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files Publish Redacted Decisions