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Michelle Butler

Called 2007
Michelle Butler
Michelle's international law experience includes pre-trial, trial and appeal proceedings at the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She also acts as counsel in arbitral proceedings, including investment treaty arbitrations under the ICSID rules.   
 
Her domestic law experience encompasses human rights and public law cases before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights (the "ECtHR"). Michelle additionally has a developing practice in extradition, criminal defence, immigration, police and prison law.  
 
She has undertaken fact-finding delegations, provided human rights training and carried out trial observations on behalf of a variety of non-governmental organizations in countries including Iran, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Iraq.
 
Michelle is a contributing author to Clayton and Tomlinson’s Law of Human Rights (2nd edition) and to the International Bar Association’s Manual on International Criminal Law.  
 
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and is a Trustee of Stepping Stones Nigeria, a UK charity aimed at improving the lives of disadvantaged children in the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom.
 
Before coming to the Bar, Michelle qualified as a Solicitor in Australia and worked both in private practice and as an in-house Government legal advisor.  She completed undergraduate degrees in politics and law at the University of Queensland and obtained an LLM from Cambridge University.
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