Saoirse Townshend > Temple Garden Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Temple Garden Chambers offers noted capabilities in human rights-related topics, and is equipped to comfortably handle both prosecution and defence work involving a variety of legal systems and jurisdictions. Rodney Dixon KC acts for the defendant in Ahmed Jaafar Ali v Serbia before the European Court of Human Rights concerning an unlawful extradition of a Bahraini national from Serbia after the court ordered the extradition be stayed pending the outcome of the case. Saoirse Townshend is instructed in an extradition request related to a six-year prison sentence for the rape of a 15-year-old British tourist in Turkey.