Amy Mannion

Called

2003

Appointments

Attorney General's C panel of Civil Counsel

Serious Fraud Office's C panel of Counsel

Appointed to the CPS Advocate Panel at Level 3

Practice Areas and Specialisations

Amy's main areas of practice are public law, human rights law, extradition, fraud and general crime. She appears in the magistrates' and Crown Courts, as well as in the Administrative Court and Court of Appeal (Criminal and Civil Divisions). She also appears regularly before the First-tier Tribunal (Tax).

Extradition

Amy regularly acts in contested extradition proceedings before the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court and at appeals before the Administrative Court. She also advises and undertakes drafting work in relation to extradition matters.

Amy was seconded to the CPS Special Crime Division Extradition Unit in 2007 for seven months, dealing with import and export extradition within the European Arrest Warrant Scheme and throughout the rest of the world.

Public Law

Amy regularly acts and advises in a wide-range of judicial review proceedings. She is instructed by the Treasury Solicitor, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as by claimants.

Amy's current instructions include acting for the MoD in a judicial review claim arising out of the alleged conduct of UK soldiers in Iraq.

Value Added Tax and Duties

Amy acts, both alone and with a leader, in appeals before the First-tier Tribunal (Tax). She is instructed on behalf of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Revenue in many lengthy and complicated missing trader intra-community fraud matters.

Amy also appears on behalf of HMRC in the High Court.

Regulatory, Environmental, and Licensing

Amy acts for a variety of regulatory bodies and borough councils dealing with environmental offences, social security offences and other regulatory matters.

She defends in health and safety prosecutions. She provides advice and representation covering a wide range of health and safety prosecutions launched by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities, in both the Crown and magistrates' Courts.

Amy has represented publicans before councils in matters under the Licensing Act 2003.

General Crime

Amy prosecutes and defends in the Crown Courts. Her practice without a leader encompasses serious crime including aggravated burglary, wounding/grievous bodily harm with intent, robbery, money laundering offences and supply of class 'A' drugs.

With a leader Amy has appeared in high profile cases including R v. Larcenko and others (prosecuting a ring of human trafficking bringing young women from Lithuania into the UK for the purposes of prostitution).

Amy appears before the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in appeals against conviction and sentence.

Education and Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Sociology - London School of Economics

Memberships

Extradition Lawyers’ Association
Young Fraud Lawyers’ Association
Criminal Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit
Lawyers for Liberty

Cases of Interest

Hubner v District Court of Prostejov, Czech Republic and the Crown Prosecution Service, [2009] EWHC 2929 (Admin). Case confirms that 'triviality' does not operate as a stand alone bar to extradition in cases under the 2003 Extradition Act scheme. Also confirms that the Criminal Procedure Rules apply to extradition proceedings, but deal with procedure not substantive law.

Cleere v. High Court of Ireland [2009] EWHC 2759 (Admin). Amy acted for the Irish Court. C was returned to face trial in Ireland despite a delay of more than 35 years between the date of the alleged offences (buggery and indecent assault of a child) and the extradition proceedings.

Sonea v. Mehedinti District Court, Romania [2009] EWHC 89 (Admin). The Administrative Court set out and considered the step-by-step process laid down by the Extradition Act 2003 for determining whether a convicted person was liable to discharge, retrial or extradition.

Creteil Court of First Instance, France v. Kaba. Times, 10th December 2008. Kaba's extradition to France was sought for offences of human trafficking. The case involved a point of interpretation of the Extradition Act 2003, and led to the Administrative Court concluding that earlier dicta on the point was incorrect. The point of principle was challenged further by the co-Appellant, Louca, and has been recently affirmed by the Supreme Court.

AM (Ethiopia) and others [2008] EWCA Civ 1082. Amy acted as a junior, instructed by the Treasury Solicitor, in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in this series of conjoined appeals against immigration refusal. This was an immigration test case relating to maintenance of family members.

Reported Cases