Alexander Dos Santos

Year of Call: 1999 LLB (Hons)
Affiliations: Criminal Bar Association, Administrative Law Bar Association, Human Rights Lawyers Association, Liberty
Specialist Areas: Serious Crime, Homicide, Serious Violent Offences, Firearms, Large Drugs Related Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, MTIC Fraud , Commercial Crime, Money Laundering, DTI Offences, Local Government Crime & Enforcement, Regulatory & Compliance Work, Health & Safety, Environmental Law, Extradition

Biography Practice Profile Cases

A criminal and public law practitioner with particular expertise in judicial review, confiscation law, and the European Convention on Human Rights. Also has experience in Courts-Martial, prison law, licensing, extradition, planning, insolvency and general common law.

Previously worked as assistant to Senior Counsel at the European Centre for Law and Justice advising on issues under Convention law, EU and domestic law and drafting numerous applications to the European Court. Also has experience with a French law firm.

European Court of Human Rights

Collins, Thoburn, Hunt, Harman and Dove v United Kingdom (2003) (admissibility decision) – Metric Martyrs – fair trial – freedom of expression – right to property – weights and measures

Sawoniuk v United Kingdom (2001), Application no. 63716/00, (admissibility decision) – War Crimes

Metropolitan of Bessarabia v Moldova (2001), Application no. 45701/99, Judgement of 13 December 2001 – rights of an organisation to incorporate, access to a Court and the right to hold property

Court of Appeal

R v Sellick and Sellick [2005] EWCA Crim 651 – intimidation of witnesses – right to examine witnesses - key evidence read out at trial – Article 6 ECHR

R v Nicholas van Hoogstraten (2003) – Sentence and appellate proceedings.

R v John Palmer [2002] EWCA Crim 2202 - £33m Confiscation order quashed on appeal for lack of jurisdiction

Administrative Court

Re L [2005] EWHC 2325 (Admin) – application to High Court by HMC&E for certificate of increase of assets in relation to a confiscation order – successfully resisted

James Hewitson v Government of France [2005] EWHC 135 (Admin)
Habeas Corpus – Extradition – Human Rights

R (O the application of Palmer)-v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] EWHC 1817 (Admin)
Prison law – challenge to categorisation

R (On the application of Davies)-v- Secretary of State for the Home Department, Decision of 16th June 2004
Prison law – challenge to licence conditions, Article 8 ECHR

Crown Court

R v Nicholas Thompson (2005) – Southwark Crown Court – Junior Counsel in successful defence at trial of a police officer prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act.