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| Julian Knowles | |
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|  Harris v Secretary of State for Defence - WWI 'shell-shock' case review | |
| Harris v Secretary of State for Defence |
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| R (Abacha) v secretary of State for the Home Department (2001) | |
| The case concerned a mutual assistance request submitted by Nigeria in respect of funds they sought to recover and criminal prosecutions connected to the former rule of General Abacha. Clare Montgomery QC and Julian Knowles appeared for Mohammed Sani Abacha. |
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| Lambert Watson v The Queen (2004) | |
| A 9 judge Board of the Privy Council ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was inhuman punishment contrary to Jamaica's constitution and international human rights standards. The present existing law clause did not apply to immunise this punishment from judicial amendment to ensure conformity with these standards. Henceforth all cases of capital murder in Jamaica required judicial sentencing hearings. Nicholas Blake QC and Julian Knowles appeared for Mr Watson. |
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| Cartwright & Anor v Superintendent of HM Prison & Anor (2004) | |
| Julian Knowles acted for the appellant against an order for his extradition from the Bahamas to the United States to face trial for drug offences. The case was heard by the Privy Council. |
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| Zakaev | |
| Julian Knowles appeared as junior for Akhmed Zakaev, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, who successfully resisted an application for his extradition by the Russian Federation. |
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| R (Al-Fawwaz, Abdel Bary & Anor) v Governor of Brixton Prison (2001) | |
| Ben Emmerson QC and Julian Knowles appeared for Abdel Bary in this House of Lords case concerning extradition offences committed outside the territory of the requesting state. |
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| R v Bow street Metropolitan Stipendary Magistrate ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No 3) (1999) | |
| Clare Montgomery QC and Julian Knowles appeared for General Pinochet in the case concerning the former Head of State of Chile who had been charged for extraterritorial acts of torture, murder and conspiracy to murder - whether these acts constituted extradition crimes. |
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