“He is extremely hard working and has a brain the size of the planet. Impossible to say a bad word about him. He is a star.”
Eddie has a broad practice in all areas public, media, commercial and international law.
He is recommended by Legal 500 as a leading junior in nine areas: (1) administrative law and human rights; (2) business and regulatory crime; (3) civil fraud; (4) data protection; (5) defamation and privacy; (6) environmental law; (7) group litigation; (8) proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture; (9) public international law.
He is also recommended by Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in nine areas: (1) administrative and public law; (2) civil liberties & human rights; (3) data protection; (4) defamation & privacy; (5) environment; (6) group litigation (7) international human rights law; (8) POCA work and asset forfeiture; and (9) public international law.
Eddie was recently named by Chambers & Partners as one of 16 “Stars of the Bar 2024” (the only junior to be listed).
Eddie has a wide public law and human rights practice. He was named by Legal 500 as Junior of the Year for Civil Liberties and Human Rights in 2020 and as Public Law Junior of the Year in 2023. He has acted in a number of high profile Human Rights Act claims and judicial reviews including:
Eddie has a significant practice in public and private international law. He represented Croatia in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Genocide Convention (Croatia v Serbia). He is currently representing the Republic of Somalia in an international maritime boundary dispute before the ICJ (Somalia v Kenya) and is representing the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana in proceedings before the ICJ concerning the validity of an 1899 arbitral award (Guyana v Venezuela). He recently served as the assistant to an ICSID arbitral tribunal and is a member of the Attorney-General’s Public International Law Panel.
Eddie has also acted in a number of complex international group claims before the English courts. These include:
Eddie has extensive experience of bringing claims and third party interventions before the European Court of Human Rights. His cases include:
Eddie practises in all aspects of media and information law, with particular expertise in defamation, privacy, data protection, breach of confidence and reporting restrictions. He is recommended as a leading junior in this field by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Spear’s and Who’s Who Legal. In 2022 he was shortlisted for Media and the Arts junior of the year by Legal 500.
Eddie has acted in some of the most significant media law cases in recent years. They include:
Between 2013-17, Eddie provided regular pre-publication advice to The Times, Sunday Times, Observer, the Guardian and BBC News.
Eddie has a broad criminal and regulatory practice with a particular focus on proceeds of crime, fraud and money laundering offences and cases with an international or corporate dimension. He has been instructed for the defence in international fraud and corruption prosecutions and advised a large investment bank on LIBOR fixing investigations. He has extensive experience of representing respondents to property freezing orders, unexplained wealth orders and civil recovery applications under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He has advised and trained teams at global law firms on money laundering compliance and has produced AML risk assessments and policies for a range of regulated entities. He recently represented the defendant (led by Mark Summers KC) in R v BHQ [2023] Crim LR 788, concerning the Court of Appeal’s jurisdiction to hear appeals against rulings at preparatory hearings on the question of abuse of process. He has also recently acted for individuals under criminal investigation for suspected fraud and bribery offences in support of applications to maintain their anonymity prior to charging decisions being made.
Eddie is a contributing author to Human Rights and Criminal Justice (3rd Ed, Sweet & Maxwell); Smith, Bodnar and Owen on Asset Recovery, Criminal Confiscation and Civil Recovery (OUP, 2nd Ed); Montgomery and Ormerod on Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure; and Livingstone, Owen and Macdonald on Prison Law (OUP, 5th Ed); and the GIR Guide to Global Investigations.
Eddie has acted as a clerk to the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal on more than 20 cases and as an ad hoc clerk at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in more than 40 cases including:
In 2011/2012 Eddie spent a year as judicial assistant to Lord Clarke at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Prior to this, Eddie spent nine months as a judicial assistant to Lady Justice Arden at the Court of Appeal.
Eddie is a former Lecturer in Administrative Law and European Human Rights Law at Oxford University and has taught on surveillance and fair trial issues on the postgraduate BCL course. Before joining Matrix, he spent several months working as a Stagiaire at the European Court of Human Rights. He is also a former trial observer for the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association.
Eddie holds a first class undergraduate law degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. He undertook the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law where he was graded ‘Outstanding’ and received the Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize for finishing in the top 5 in his year. Eddie later read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at Brasenose College, Oxford University, specialising in criminal justice, unjust enrichment and comparative public law. He received Distinctions in all subjects and won the Ralph Chiles CBE Prize for comparative human rights law. Eddie was awarded a Sunley Scholarship, Eastham Scholarship, Hardwicke Award and Buchanan Prize by Lincoln’s Inn.
Eddie is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in accordance with his legal obligation under UK law and the law of the European Union. In order to provide legal services to his clients, including advice and representation services, Eddie needs to collect and hold personal data. This includes his client’s personal data and the personal data of others who feature in the matter upon which he is instructed. To view Eddie’s privacy notice in full, please see here.
"Brilliant - Edward is a fabulous junior and his knowledge of public international law is unparalleled. He brings buckets of enthusiasm, wit and intelligence to every case he does."
"His written work is incredible." "He's very clever and very good."
"Eddie is a polymath. He is fantastically knowledgeable over a wide range of areas and brings an incisive intelligence to bear on all his case work."
"Edward is a rare combination of being absolutely first class in terms of his legal analysis, but also being a delight to work with"His written advocacy is excellent. Edward is always full of outstanding ideas."
‘Eddie is a star at the Bar. A hugely talented lawyer with an endless capacity for hard work. He distills complex legal arguments into first class skeleton arguments and has a keen sense for strategy in complex group litigation."
"Edward is a strong advocate and a good team player."
"A near future silk. Has a wonderful way with words, a huge intellect and a wealth of strategic nous." "He's completely brilliant."
"A junior with a brilliant and creative legal mind."
"Eddie is personable, bright, versatile and willing to get stuck in. He is good strategically." "He is incredibly bright." "He is just great. He is good in media but has a wide-ranging practice."
"He's very personable, extremely bright, versatile, and willing to get stuck in even on less exciting tasks. He's also sound strategically."
"A highly experienced junior with a formidable intellect."
"A formidable junior; he's a phenomenal drafter and researcher. He does the most incredible work for us."
"Eddie is a polymath. He is fantastically knowledgeable over a wide range of areas and brings an incisive intelligence to bear on all his case work."
"An extraordinary force of nature. He has an incredible eye for detail and is great on his feet."
"Edward brings wide-ranging expertise that allows him to make unique points." "His written advocacy is excellent. He is always full of outstanding ideas."
"He is a really really clever guy. He does incredible quality work. His written work is superb. He is excellent with clients and has a huge brain."
"Superb lawyer, utterly unparalleled for his sheer breadth of knowledge and dedication to cases. An excellent advocate and a great team player."
"He is incredibly knowledgeable. A total pleasure to work with. His knowledge of the workings of the Supreme Court is second-to-none."
"Edward is on the ball and adeptly navigates complex legal issues and brings great energy to cases."
"Edward is an outstanding public international law junior. He is able to assimilate huge amounts of information very quickly and provide incisive advice. Edward's oral advocacy is second to none."
"Brilliant and persuasive drafting, cutting-edge advice, totally reliable and ingenious with arguments."
"Highly experienced, extremely hard-working, unfailingly helpful – a real star."
"An excellent senior junior who is strategic, knowledgeable and an absolute pleasure to work with."
"His assistance and contributions are always of highest quality, well-formulated and immediately usable."
"Edward is immensely bright."
"His drafting is amazing, concise and pointed and he has an eye on the wider strategic issues at play." "Eddie is one of the most eloquent drafters you can get at the junior Bar."
"Excellent on POCA matters, he works his way through the key points in cases in a logical and efficient manner."
"His delivery of complex legal arguments in a judicial review is punchy and hard-hitting." "He really is exceptional and also very approachable."" ""He is clearly very experienced and has a stellar reputation.""
"One of the most eloquent drafters you can get at the junior Bar." "A super bright senior junior."
"Edward has a good understanding of the law and of the interlinking elements." "He does really high-quality work at an exceptional rate. He's delightful and utterly brilliant as a lawyer. He's so nice to work with and such a team player too."
"One of the most impressive barristers; incredibly intelligent, knows the law inside out and is incredibly clear in all his advice."
"His advocacy is really superb, and he's incredibly committed and hard-working."
"He is very responsive, thorough, organised and logical in how he presents things."
“He knows his stuff in this area and is good at drafting.” “He is fantastic.”
"A huge asset to any legal team. He is extremely capable, very hard-working and produces excellent drafting."
"He is utterly brilliant and a genuine pleasure to work with. He is also really creative and strategic." "I would recommend him as a real standout junior barrister."
"He is very clever and on the ball." "Eddie's drafting skills are immaculate; he is my favourite junior. He has a very good legal brain and is a complete pleasure to work with." "He is supremely charming."
"An exceptionally bright junior and a rising star. He has unparalleled research skills and devotes himself wholeheartedly to a case." "He is phenomenal, his written work is lightning quick and he's really conscientious."
"An absolute workhorse and a scholarly junior who works on innovative claims and is unafraid of a challenge." "He's efficient and knowledgeable in international law." "He is strategic and on top of his cases."
"He is a very knowledgeable and smart barrister. He stands out because he is very client-friendly. Looks out for the interests of the client and is great on strategy." "He has an excellent spread of expertise, and is one of our first choices for complex matters." "A rare combination of fighting power whilst being a delightful opponent."
"He is very clever and on the ball." "Eddie's drafting skills are immaculate; he is my favourite junior. He has a very good legal brain and is a complete pleasure to work with." "He is supremely charming."
"Real star qualities, particularly in the civil liberties and human rights arena. A much sought after junior."
"Pre-eminent in the junior end of this field and is a delight to work with."
"Very user-friendly. A star junior in the public law and civil liberties arena. An absolute pleasure to work with."
"Has an excellent knowledge of data protection law and practice, combined with strong general litigation skills."
" Eddie is a extremely hard working and a very good strategist, who often comes up with clever procedural points as well as points of legal analysis. He has a very good manner with clients who have great confidence in him."
"The foremost junior in representing claimants in major environmental claims for harms occurring overseas, he is exceptionally bright and strategically brilliant. "
"His assistance and contributions are always of highest quality, well-formulated and immediately usable."
"Extremely hard working, responsive and knowledgeable."
"He is extremely hard working and has a brain the size of the planet. Impossible to say a bad word about him. He is a star."
"He is a polymath who brings his wide insights into criminal work. He is an intellectual giant who is also incredibly hard working and user friendly. Very good with the detail, rolls up his sleeves freely, and very knowledgeable on civil fraud and insolvency."
"Fantastic, exceptionally bright, and a really sought after junior."
"Hardworking, very knowledgeable about data protection law, and a creative thinker."
"Excellent grasp of the law, proactively comes up with ideas on a case."
"He is one of the brightest barristers of his generation and his ability to grasp complex points of law and voluminous case law is extraordinary."
"A rare mixture of top academic talent who is perfectly adept at client interaction."
"Incredibly bright with an engaging court manner."
"A stellar practitioner with a brain the size of a planet."
"His work is impeccable in every respect: meticulous, thorough and demonstrated clear-cut thinking as well as a great deal of skill in the structuring of legal arguments and the formatting of legal documents."
“He is extremely hard working and has a brain the size of the planet. Impossible to say a bad word about him. He is a star.”
Legal 500 2021
Contact Edward: edwardcraven@matrixlaw.co.uk | +44 (0)20 7404 3447
Contact Edward's Practice Team (Team M): TeamM@matrixlaw.co.uk
Eddie has a broad practice in all areas public, media, commercial and international law.
He is recommended by Legal 500 as a leading junior in nine areas: (1) administrative law and human rights; (2) business and regulatory crime; (3) civil fraud; (4) data protection; (5) defamation and privacy; (6) environmental law; (7) group litigation; (8) proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture; (9) public international law.
He is also recommended by Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in nine areas: (1) administrative and public law; (2) civil liberties & human rights; (3) data protection; (4) defamation & privacy; (5) environment; (6) group litigation (7) international human rights law; (8) POCA work and asset forfeiture; and (9) public international law.
Eddie was recently named by Chambers & Partners as one of 16 “Stars of the Bar 2024” (the only junior to be listed).
Eddie has a wide public law and human rights practice. He was named by Legal 500 as Junior of the Year for Civil Liberties and Human Rights in 2020 and as Public Law Junior of the Year in 2023. He has acted in a number of high profile Human Rights Act claims and judicial reviews including:
Eddie has a significant practice in public and private international law. He represented Croatia in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Genocide Convention (Croatia v Serbia). He is currently representing the Republic of Somalia in an international maritime boundary dispute before the ICJ (Somalia v Kenya) and is representing the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana in proceedings before the ICJ concerning the validity of an 1899 arbitral award (Guyana v Venezuela). He recently served as the assistant to an ICSID arbitral tribunal and is a member of the Attorney-General’s Public International Law Panel.
Eddie has also acted in a number of complex international group claims before the English courts. These include:
Eddie has extensive experience of bringing claims and third party interventions before the European Court of Human Rights. His cases include:
Eddie practises in all aspects of media and information law, with particular expertise in defamation, privacy, data protection, breach of confidence and reporting restrictions. He is recommended as a leading junior in this field by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Spear’s and Who’s Who Legal. In 2022 he was shortlisted for Media and the Arts junior of the year by Legal 500.
Eddie has acted in some of the most significant media law cases in recent years. They include:
Between 2013-17, Eddie provided regular pre-publication advice to The Times, Sunday Times, Observer, the Guardian and BBC News.
Eddie has a broad criminal and regulatory practice with a particular focus on proceeds of crime, fraud and money laundering offences and cases with an international or corporate dimension. He has been instructed for the defence in international fraud and corruption prosecutions and advised a large investment bank on LIBOR fixing investigations. He has extensive experience of representing respondents to property freezing orders, unexplained wealth orders and civil recovery applications under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He has advised and trained teams at global law firms on money laundering compliance and has produced AML risk assessments and policies for a range of regulated entities. He recently represented the defendant (led by Mark Summers KC) in R v BHQ [2023] Crim LR 788, concerning the Court of Appeal’s jurisdiction to hear appeals against rulings at preparatory hearings on the question of abuse of process. He has also recently acted for individuals under criminal investigation for suspected fraud and bribery offences in support of applications to maintain their anonymity prior to charging decisions being made.
Eddie is a contributing author to Human Rights and Criminal Justice (3rd Ed, Sweet & Maxwell); Smith, Bodnar and Owen on Asset Recovery, Criminal Confiscation and Civil Recovery (OUP, 2nd Ed); Montgomery and Ormerod on Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure; and Livingstone, Owen and Macdonald on Prison Law (OUP, 5th Ed); and the GIR Guide to Global Investigations.
Eddie has acted as a clerk to the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal on more than 20 cases and as an ad hoc clerk at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in more than 40 cases including:
In 2011/2012 Eddie spent a year as judicial assistant to Lord Clarke at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Prior to this, Eddie spent nine months as a judicial assistant to Lady Justice Arden at the Court of Appeal.
Eddie is a former Lecturer in Administrative Law and European Human Rights Law at Oxford University and has taught on surveillance and fair trial issues on the postgraduate BCL course. Before joining Matrix, he spent several months working as a Stagiaire at the European Court of Human Rights. He is also a former trial observer for the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association.
Eddie holds a first class undergraduate law degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. He undertook the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law where he was graded ‘Outstanding’ and received the Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize for finishing in the top 5 in his year. Eddie later read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at Brasenose College, Oxford University, specialising in criminal justice, unjust enrichment and comparative public law. He received Distinctions in all subjects and won the Ralph Chiles CBE Prize for comparative human rights law. Eddie was awarded a Sunley Scholarship, Eastham Scholarship, Hardwicke Award and Buchanan Prize by Lincoln’s Inn.
Eddie is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in accordance with his legal obligation under UK law and the law of the European Union. In order to provide legal services to his clients, including advice and representation services, Eddie needs to collect and hold personal data. This includes his client’s personal data and the personal data of others who feature in the matter upon which he is instructed. To view Eddie’s privacy notice in full, please see here.
"Brilliant - Edward is a fabulous junior and his knowledge of public international law is unparalleled. He brings buckets of enthusiasm, wit and intelligence to every case he does."
"His written work is incredible." "He's very clever and very good."
"Eddie is a polymath. He is fantastically knowledgeable over a wide range of areas and brings an incisive intelligence to bear on all his case work."
"Edward is a rare combination of being absolutely first class in terms of his legal analysis, but also being a delight to work with"His written advocacy is excellent. Edward is always full of outstanding ideas."
‘Eddie is a star at the Bar. A hugely talented lawyer with an endless capacity for hard work. He distills complex legal arguments into first class skeleton arguments and has a keen sense for strategy in complex group litigation."
"Edward is a strong advocate and a good team player."
"A near future silk. Has a wonderful way with words, a huge intellect and a wealth of strategic nous." "He's completely brilliant."
"A junior with a brilliant and creative legal mind."
"Eddie is personable, bright, versatile and willing to get stuck in. He is good strategically." "He is incredibly bright." "He is just great. He is good in media but has a wide-ranging practice."
"He's very personable, extremely bright, versatile, and willing to get stuck in even on less exciting tasks. He's also sound strategically."
"A highly experienced junior with a formidable intellect."
"A formidable junior; he's a phenomenal drafter and researcher. He does the most incredible work for us."
"Eddie is a polymath. He is fantastically knowledgeable over a wide range of areas and brings an incisive intelligence to bear on all his case work."
"An extraordinary force of nature. He has an incredible eye for detail and is great on his feet."
"Edward brings wide-ranging expertise that allows him to make unique points." "His written advocacy is excellent. He is always full of outstanding ideas."
"He is a really really clever guy. He does incredible quality work. His written work is superb. He is excellent with clients and has a huge brain."
"Superb lawyer, utterly unparalleled for his sheer breadth of knowledge and dedication to cases. An excellent advocate and a great team player."
"He is incredibly knowledgeable. A total pleasure to work with. His knowledge of the workings of the Supreme Court is second-to-none."
"Edward is on the ball and adeptly navigates complex legal issues and brings great energy to cases."
"Edward is an outstanding public international law junior. He is able to assimilate huge amounts of information very quickly and provide incisive advice. Edward's oral advocacy is second to none."
"Brilliant and persuasive drafting, cutting-edge advice, totally reliable and ingenious with arguments."
"Highly experienced, extremely hard-working, unfailingly helpful – a real star."
"An excellent senior junior who is strategic, knowledgeable and an absolute pleasure to work with."
"His assistance and contributions are always of highest quality, well-formulated and immediately usable."
"Edward is immensely bright."
"His drafting is amazing, concise and pointed and he has an eye on the wider strategic issues at play." "Eddie is one of the most eloquent drafters you can get at the junior Bar."
"Excellent on POCA matters, he works his way through the key points in cases in a logical and efficient manner."
"His delivery of complex legal arguments in a judicial review is punchy and hard-hitting." "He really is exceptional and also very approachable."" ""He is clearly very experienced and has a stellar reputation.""
"One of the most eloquent drafters you can get at the junior Bar." "A super bright senior junior."
"Edward has a good understanding of the law and of the interlinking elements." "He does really high-quality work at an exceptional rate. He's delightful and utterly brilliant as a lawyer. He's so nice to work with and such a team player too."
"One of the most impressive barristers; incredibly intelligent, knows the law inside out and is incredibly clear in all his advice."
"His advocacy is really superb, and he's incredibly committed and hard-working."
"He is very responsive, thorough, organised and logical in how he presents things."
“He knows his stuff in this area and is good at drafting.” “He is fantastic.”
"A huge asset to any legal team. He is extremely capable, very hard-working and produces excellent drafting."
"He is utterly brilliant and a genuine pleasure to work with. He is also really creative and strategic." "I would recommend him as a real standout junior barrister."
"He is very clever and on the ball." "Eddie's drafting skills are immaculate; he is my favourite junior. He has a very good legal brain and is a complete pleasure to work with." "He is supremely charming."
"An exceptionally bright junior and a rising star. He has unparalleled research skills and devotes himself wholeheartedly to a case." "He is phenomenal, his written work is lightning quick and he's really conscientious."
"An absolute workhorse and a scholarly junior who works on innovative claims and is unafraid of a challenge." "He's efficient and knowledgeable in international law." "He is strategic and on top of his cases."
"He is a very knowledgeable and smart barrister. He stands out because he is very client-friendly. Looks out for the interests of the client and is great on strategy." "He has an excellent spread of expertise, and is one of our first choices for complex matters." "A rare combination of fighting power whilst being a delightful opponent."
"He is very clever and on the ball." "Eddie's drafting skills are immaculate; he is my favourite junior. He has a very good legal brain and is a complete pleasure to work with." "He is supremely charming."
"Real star qualities, particularly in the civil liberties and human rights arena. A much sought after junior."
"Pre-eminent in the junior end of this field and is a delight to work with."
"Very user-friendly. A star junior in the public law and civil liberties arena. An absolute pleasure to work with."
"Has an excellent knowledge of data protection law and practice, combined with strong general litigation skills."
" Eddie is a extremely hard working and a very good strategist, who often comes up with clever procedural points as well as points of legal analysis. He has a very good manner with clients who have great confidence in him."
"The foremost junior in representing claimants in major environmental claims for harms occurring overseas, he is exceptionally bright and strategically brilliant. "
"His assistance and contributions are always of highest quality, well-formulated and immediately usable."
"Extremely hard working, responsive and knowledgeable."
"He is extremely hard working and has a brain the size of the planet. Impossible to say a bad word about him. He is a star."
"He is a polymath who brings his wide insights into criminal work. He is an intellectual giant who is also incredibly hard working and user friendly. Very good with the detail, rolls up his sleeves freely, and very knowledgeable on civil fraud and insolvency."
"Fantastic, exceptionally bright, and a really sought after junior."
"Hardworking, very knowledgeable about data protection law, and a creative thinker."
"Excellent grasp of the law, proactively comes up with ideas on a case."
"He is one of the brightest barristers of his generation and his ability to grasp complex points of law and voluminous case law is extraordinary."
"A rare mixture of top academic talent who is perfectly adept at client interaction."
"Incredibly bright with an engaging court manner."
"A stellar practitioner with a brain the size of a planet."
"His work is impeccable in every respect: meticulous, thorough and demonstrated clear-cut thinking as well as a great deal of skill in the structuring of legal arguments and the formatting of legal documents."