Chambers and Partners 2008 recommend Julian Knowles as a leading Junior in Civil Liberties, Crime "has a reputation for being well liked by all the large solicitors' firms" and Crime: Extradition Experts.

Legal 500 2008 Julian Knowles is recommended as a leading junior in Admin and Public law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights and Fraud: Crime "extremely good".

Chambers and Partners 2007 recommend Julian as a leading junior in Crime and Human Rights Law.

Legal 500 2007 recommended Julian as a leading junior in Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and Fraud(Crime).

Julian is ranked as a Leading Junior in Human Rights:  'Interviewees recommend Julian Knowles who also has a strong reputation in criminal, extradition and death penalty cases.'

Recommended as joint 2nd Leading Junior in Civil Liberties and Human Rights; 'Julian Knowles is noted for his extradition-related expertise'.  He is also ranked as a Leader in Administrative & Public law, and in Fraud:Crime he has gone up a tier and 'is described as "a brain on a stick", he "finds and takes points others may not"'.
(Legal 500 - 2005)

Ranked as a Leading Junior in Human Rights - ‘Solicitors endorsed Julian Knowles as a leading junior on death penalty work, and recognised his useful ability to "talk the talk with both commercial and traditional clients."’   (Chambers & Partners UK - 2005)

Named as joint 2nd Leading Junior in Civil Liberties and Human Rights, as a Leading Junior in Administrative and Public law, and also ranked as a leader in Criminal Fraud: ‘Julian Knowles is “a leading expert” in extradition work.’   (Legal 500 - 2004)

In April 2004 a survey by The Lawyer nominated him as the youngest ‘silk’ in its ‘alternative silks list’. 

A panel of experts in the Independent on Sunday described Julian as ‘demonstrating all-round brilliance’ in a recent survey of the legal profession.

The Scotsman newspaper described Julian as being among a group of 'the world's most formidable lawyers'

Just three years after his call to the Bar Julian was nominated as one of The Lawyer's "100 Lawyers of Influence"

'Julian Knowles has "established a strong reputation" in human rights and civil liberties cases (Chambers & Partners UK - 2001)