Author Archive

Alex Tinsley

Alex Tinsley is a barrister at Church Court Chambers, practising in criminal, asylum and extradition law. He was formerly Head of EU Office at Fair Trials. He is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA); a co-author of the ECBA Handbook “How to Defend a European Arrest Warrant case”; and a member of the editorial board of the New Journal of European Criminal Law. He was the 2011 Sir Peter Bristow Scholar at the Court of Justice of the EU. This post is written in a personal capacity.

EU Free Movement

Three issues with the arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

The author is running the 2018 London Marathon for the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees and invites readers to consider supporting this organisation via the sponsorship page. Deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is due back in Belgian co ...

17th November 2017 By Alex Tinsley

Enforcement

INTERPOL “wanted” alerts: using them as evidence and making them go away

This post discusses issues arising for asylum practitioners from INTERPOL “wanted person” notices. The key points are (i) you can find out, possibly quite quickly, if there is such a notice in place, which in the affirmative may help to establish ...

10th May 2017 By Alex Tinsley

Explore a Hub

OISC resources

Job adverts

Case law

EU rights

Visit visa

Procedure

Business and study immigration

Nationality

Human rights

Family immigration

Detention

Deportation

Children

Asylum

Or become a member of Free Movement today

Author Archive

Three issues with the arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

INTERPOL “wanted” alerts: using them as evidence and making them go away