Criminal

Call 1991, Silk 2002 (Door Tenant)

Appointments:1998–2011Appointed to the editorial board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof

2007-2008Chair of the Criminal Bar Association

Chairman of the Kalisher Trust

Approved counsel at the International Criminal Court

Criminal Bar Association (former Chair), Justice, Liberty, Commonwealth Bar Association

Andrew Hall QC is consistently named as a leader in his field and has a busy and high-profile practice in serious crime.  He has a strong following amongst solicitors both in London and further afield, and a particular reputation for the tenacious defence of grave, difficult and complex cases.

Andrew has very extensive experience in all types of homicide, as well as large-scale drugs and other excise conspiracies. In recent years, he has been instructed in a significant number of high-profile terrorism cases, including the cases of those alleged to have conducted hostile reconnaissance of London targets for the 7/7 bombers.

He led the Bar team which set up the library facilities, and provided advocacy training, at the Special Court in Sierra Leone. He has longstanding involvement with legal-sector capacity-building projects overseas, particularly in Africa, and is a winner of the Bar Pro Bono Award for this work. Human rights work overseas has included missions to Syria, Sudan and Burma.

Andrew is the author and co-author of several books on criminal-justice issues and regularly lectures on advocacy and other legal topics, including terrorism and human rights, both here and abroad. He has served for a number of years as a member of the Bar Council and chair of the Remuneration Committee. Since 2010 he has been chair of the Kalisher Trust, a charity providing scholarships and other awards to talented Criminal Bar entrants who need financial support.

1974Birmingham University, LLB

1976Sheffield University, MA Criminology