[photo] Iain Edwards (2000)Iain Edwards (2000)

Team

Crime

Education

  • LL.B. (Hons.) Law with French Law and Language, University of East Anglia (1996)
  • DEUF (Diploma in French Law), Université Jean Moulin (Lyon, France)
  • LL.M. Public International Law (emphasis on international human rights and international criminal law), University College London (1999)

Practice

Iain practises in the area of criminal defence. He represents defendants in the Crown Court charged with offences of serious violence, robbery, rape and serious sexual assault, drugs, and firearms. Iain has a special interest in cases which provide the opportunity to advance abuse of process arguments.

As well as considerable trial experience acting alone, Iain is regularly instructed as junior counsel. He has been led in complex cases involving conspiracies to defraud, large-scale importation and production of drugs, and serious sexual abuse of children.

Iain has appeared in the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions either arguing that his clients’ sentences were manifestly excessive, or responding to references of the Attorney-General.

In addition, Iain has a developing prison law practice. He is instructed in prisoner adjudications and Parole Board hearings all over the country.

Profile

Iain joined Chambers as a pupil in 2001. Before coming to the Bar, Iain worked as a caseworker in one of the largest immigration solicitors’ firms in England. Until he took the decision to focus on and develop his criminal defence practice, a substantial proportion of his work was in the field of asylum and immigration, and associated human rights law. He consequently has a particular interest in cases featuring immigration issues or where the client faces the risk of deportation.

Iain also worked for a London-based non-governmental organisation involved in seeking reparations for victims of torture from around the world.

Iain speaks fairly fluent French and conversational Japanese. He would like to improve his Italian.

His interests include travel, music, scuba-diving, snowboarding, theatre and trivia.

Memberships

Liberty, Amnesty International, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.