Katherine Tyler

Katherine is a legal counsel in the criminal litigation team where she specialises in extradition and investigations with a cross-border element particularly those involving allegations of human rights abuses or environmental harm. Katherine leads on Business and Human Rights and is co-chair of the firm-wide group.
 

Extradition and Interpol

Katherine has significant experience representing requested persons and foreign governments in relation to extradition requests from both within and outside the EU. Her experience of government work gives her a unique insight that enables her to offer pragmatic and practical advice to clients. Katherine has a track record of defending persons subject to high profile, sensitive requests that are often politically motivated or part of a broader campaign against an individual. In such cases which can often play out very publicly and across multiple jurisdictions with multiple increasing pressures Katherine regularly works alongside colleagues in our International Protection team to assist clients and to deliver the careful, strategic management such cases require.

Modern Slavery and Business and Human Rights

Katherine’s other areas of practise include modern slavery related issues and business and human rights, in particular where these issues cross-over with potential criminal liability or investigations. Katherine is recognised as a thought-leader in the field of Business and Human Rights and is a founder and co-chair of the Business and Human Rights Practitioners’ Network. Her work in this sphere has included advising individuals in modern slavery investigations; acting in a high profile, multi-jurisdictional, independent review into allegations of a leading charity’s involvement in human rights abuses and most recently advising on a proposed mandatory UK human rights due diligence law for the CORE Coalition. Other relevant work has included advising NGOs and law firms on issues of corporate responsibility and liability for human rights abuses and environmental harm. She is a regular contributor to consultations convened by the UN Business and Human Rights Working Group.

Publications, press highlights, speaking engagements & Blogs

• Katherine will be chairing a panel on corporate accountability for international crimes at Kingsley Napley’s cross-border conference on May 5^th 2022
• Katherine will be chairing a panel on International ESG Issues at Matrix Chambers’ conference on 26^th April 2022;
• Katherine speaks at BIICL’s forum on criminal liability for corporate human rights harms (December 2021);
• Katherine spoke with the DPP, Martin Adams QC and Amanda Pinto QC as part of the Law Commissions programme of lectures on the reform of corporate criminal liability (July 2021)
• How a regulator could support the enforcement of a human rights due diligence law - Traidcraft Exchange, August 2020
• Julian Assange could face extradition requests from two countries: What happens next? - Quoted in TIME, May 2019
• Briefs will always be in fashion - Quoted in The Times, February 2019
• Corporate and individual accountability for international crimes: Kingsley Napley hosts second International Criminal Law Conference - January 2019
• Good reason to reconsider the benefit of the doubt accorded to Russia in extradition cases - December 2018
• Business and Human Rights: Magnitsky clause now in force - February 2018
• Climate Change on Corporate Behaviour - Writes for The Law Society Gazette, June 2017
• Katherine is the co-author of the chapter on UK legislation and the approach of the UK courts to the litigation of corporations for human rights violations in the American Bar Association’s book “Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Impacts: New Expectations and Paradigms.”
• Katherine co-authored the Extradition Chapter in Blackstones Criminal Practice 2013
• Katherine co-authors and regularly updates the Westlaw Insight articles on extradition

Professional Memberships and societies

• Member of the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum (DELF)
• Member of the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
• Member of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)
• Member of Extradition Lawyers' Association (ELA)