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Jo Cooper Head of Chambers Perren Buildings, 15 Old Bailey, London
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AREAS OF ADVOCACY PRACTICEJo Cooper has twenty years experience in criminal practice as a full-time trial advocate. He has appeared as a leading or ‘senior’ junior in complex criminal cases since 2000, including a range of financial crimes, supergrass, murder, national security and terrorism cases. Between 2004 –7 he appeared in a series of cases at the ICTY (Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal) in The Hague, including Prosecutor v B and Prosecutor v M, leading teams of international law specialists from several countries. From 2008 he has been instructed as Leading Counsel in a range of grave domestic offences: · terrorism offences arising out of explosions in London in July 2005 · conspiracy to commit armed robberies of banks and department stores · conspiracy to launder money · conspiracy to supply Class A drugs across England and Wales · international revenue and customs fraud Jo also appears as sole or led junior counsel in a range of other cases at trial, judicial review, and at the Court of Appeal including CCRC miscarriage of justice work. OTHER ACTIVITIESIn November 2009, Jo was elected Chair of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates, the professional organisation of Solicitor Advocates in England and Wales. SAHCA has over1400 members conducting advocacy in civil and criminal cases across the jurisdiction. Jo is a former Council Member of Liberty, the campaigning civil rights organisation, and is co-author of the plain English guide ‘Your Rights’, the Liberty guide to Human Rights, now in its 8th Edition. He is a Vice President of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, a pressure group dedicated to supporting human rights defenders worldwide. Jo has led training courses and conferences for the International Criminal Bar in The Hague, Ireland and Canada, and has contributed to international conferences in UK and abroad, including on behalf of The Law Society in Kazakhstan, the British East-West Centre in Belarus, and Kurdish Human Rights Project in Armenia. His lecturing practice has led to three awards as ‘Speaker of the Year’ of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association. He is a former Chair of the Disciplinary Council of the ICTY Defence Bar. Jo Cooper has acted as legal advisor to a number of BBC legal dramas, including Trial by Jury, New Street Law, GF Newman’s Judge John Deed, and Criminal Justice. Jo Cooper was appointed Recorder of the Crown Court in 2009. DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOADJo Cooper: 2010 Profile CONTACTTelephone direct: 07956 551898 Email: jo.cooper@perrenbuildings.com Clerks Room: 0203 008 8400 Regulated by SRA—Jonathan P Cooper—No 0072660
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