Rebecca Niblock

Rebecca has significant experience in both domestic criminal litigation and extradition, having acted for defendants in a wide range of criminal matters from serious fraud, money laundering and corruption, to sexual offences and offences involving violence or drugs. She advises on a wide range of white collar crime matters including SFO and FCA investigations. She has extensive experience of representing individuals at police station interviews. Rebecca is rated Band 1 in Chambers UK 2015 for crime: extradition.

Rebecca specialises in cases involving cross-jurisdictional elements. She has successfully defended a large number of persons requested by other states, both inside and outside the EU in extradition proceedings at all levels from the magistrates’ court to the Supreme Court. She has experience in advising in sanctions cases, and in providing advice to those subject to Interpol red notices and mutual legal assistance requests.

She has a detailed knowledge of legal  developments both domestically and at the EU level and is keen to apply solutions which are both practical and, in appropriate circumstances, innovative, to a particular client’s needs. 

Rebecca has co-written one of the leading practitioner texts on extradition law (see below), now in its second edition.

In October 2014, she gave evidence at the House of Lords to the Select Committee on Extradition Law.

Rebecca has Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal). She has a PhD in Art History from the University of Bristol.

Recent work

• Successfully defended a number of EAW cases, from countries such as Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Romania.
• Successful challenges to a number of requests from Ukraine.
• Secured a discharge in the two most recent extradition requests made by the Russian Federation.
• Represented a number of persons facing allegations of sexual offences.
• Advising senior members of international companies in relation to SFO and FCA investigations.
• Acting for Nepalese army officer facing trial for torture in criminal proceedings brought in the UK.

 

what clients and directories have said

"She is one of the leading extradition lawyers practising in London. She is academically excellent and able to translate that into advice for her clients."

 Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2016 

Associate Rebecca Niblock is praised as "extremely knowledgeable, hard-working and thorough." 

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2015

"Rebecca Niblock is highly regarded within the fields of general crime and extradition. Sources note that "she is an urbane and thoughtful lawyer with an impressive intellect"

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2014

"She stands out as being 'exceptionally bright' and 'fearless'.

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2013

 

Publications

Rebecca is co-author of Extradition Law: A Practitioners Guide, published by LAG.  It is available to order online. Read the Law Society Gazette review here. 

Rebecca recently contributed to the House of Lords Select Committee on Extradition.  The report has now been published, read it here.

Public Service Europe 9 July 2013: Making political capital at the expense of the rule of law is a dangerous game, which the British government should avoid at all costs, argues Rebecca

 

in the press

• Quoted in The Brief, June 2017, Throwing out human rights law 'would hamper security services' 

 

 

Professional societies and memberships

• Member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitor’s Association (LCCSA)
• Member of Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates.

Rebecca is also chair of the Defence Extradition Lawyers’ Forum. She sits on the Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee and is a committee member of the Extradition Lawyers’ Association.