Alun Jones KC is a specialist in extradition, mutual legal assistance, international crime, financial crime, crime, judicial review, asset confiscation, international arbitration and immunity cases. He has also appeared in the higher appellate courts in insolvency, commercial, planning and defamation cases when they have been connected with matters within his normal areas of practice.He spent the first ten years of his career before juries in London learning and developing advocacy skills and then gradually specialised. In 2005, he founded and became Head of Great James Street Chambers. Alun Jones has appeared and advised in extradition cases for 37 years. He has conducted 24 full appeals in extradition cases in the House of Lords, Privy Council and UK Supreme Court, acting in ten of them for foreign governments, appearing as leading counsel in all but the first four of them, listed below. This has given him very wide international experience of foreign and Commonwealth jurisdictions.Alun has advised numerous clients particularly within the energy sector in relation to international arbitration disputes in a multitude of jurisdictions. He has been instructed previously in relation to jurisdictional challenges relating to awards and damages. Alun has developed a practice judicially reviewing warrants, entries searches and seizures, domestic and in pursuance of overseas letters of request, covert surveillance orders, and other interlocutory aspects of the criminal law. He has advised and lectured to lawyers on the subject of asset confiscation and civil and criminal restraint orders in Nigeria and Cameroon and advised on the subject in two jurisdictions in the Gulf. Since 2015 he has advised on asset and restraint orders in a specific case of international repute in Asia, centred upon Shanghai and Beijing. He is currently concerned (2021) in two cases involving EU criminal restraint orders and their enforcement in the UK.Alun has defended in many of the most serious London commercial crime trials, as leading counsel, since the Serious Fraud Office was established in 1987. His fraud experience began as a junior barrister when he prosecuted a number of early mortgage frauds and a series of trials involving the fraudulent use or forgery of bearer bonds in the City of London.Alun has been involved in many high profile cases, details of which can be found here - https://greatjames.co.uk/members/alun-jones/To instruct Alun, please contact Great James Street Chambers at clerks@greatjames.co.uk or 0207 440 4949