Aidan Ellis

Aidan has built a practice representing clients at international courts and tribunals. He has worked on cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. He is currently legal consultant in the Defence team of Mr Bruno Stojic at the ICTY and argued Mr Stojic’s response to the Prosecution’s Appeal before the Appeals Chamber in March 2017. At the ICC, he has worked on the cases of Mr Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Libya) and Mr Abdallah Banda and Mr Saleh Jerbo (Sudan).

Aidan is an active member of the Association of Defence Counsel practising before the International Courts and Tribunals (“ADC”) and is currently the chairperson of the ADC membership committee and a member of the ADC amicus committee.

Aidan maintains a national civil practice specialising in personal injury. He is particularly interested in personal injury cases with an international / human rights aspect. He is the author of Kevan and Ellis on Credit Hire and the editor of PI Brief Update Law Journal.

Northamptonshire Grammar School; Downing College, Cambridge (BA, First; LLM, First).