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Jo Cooper Head of Chambers Perren Buildings, London
Consultant, Head of Advocacy Tnt Solicitors, London |
AREAS OF ADVOCACY PRACTICEQualified in 1987, Jo Cooper has appeared as leading or ‘senior’ junior in complex criminal cases since 2000, including a range of financial crimes, grave violence cases, supergrass cases and other cases with a strong international element. Since 2004 he appeared as Lead Counsel in cases at the ICTY (Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal) in The Hague, including Prosecutor v B and Prosecutor v M, in which he headed teams of international law specialists from several countries. He returned to domestic practice in 2007 and has been instructed in a range of grave domestic offences: · Leading counsel in relation to terrorism offences arising out of explosions in London in July 2005 · Leading counsel in conspiracy to commit armed robberies · Leading counsel in conspiracy to supply Class A drugs across England and Wales · Leading counsel in international revenue and customs fraud · Sole or led junior counsel in a range of other cases. In October 2007 Jo represented “C”, whose rape convictions were finally quashed by the Court of Appeal after he had served nearly 7 years in prison. OTHER ACTIVITIESJo Cooper has an international reputation for his courtroom advocacy training, having presented for the International Criminal Bar in The Hague, Ireland and Canada, and for KHRP in Armenia. His lecturing practice has led to three awards as ‘Speaker of the Year’ of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association. 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. In November 2008, Jo was re-elected Vice Chair of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates, the professional organisation of Solicitor Advocates in England and Wales. He is currently co-Chair of the Disciplinary Council of the ICTY Defence Bar. He is a Director of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, a body recently given Amicus Curiae status in the case of Prosecutor v Munyakazi at the Rwanda Tribunal, the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania. Jo is legal advisor to a number of BBC legal dramas, including Trial by Jury, New Street Law, GF Newman’s Judge John Deed, and the BBC drama series Criminal Justice (July 2008). DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOADJo Cooper: 2009 Profile CONTACTTelephone direct: 07956 551898 Email: jo.cooper@perrenbuildings.com Clerks Room: 020 7482 5416
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