# Alex Bailin

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{{Short description|English barrister}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}}
{{Infobox person
|name             = Alex Bailin
|honorific_suffix = <small>[KC](/source/King's_Counsel)</small>
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|01|23}}
| occupation  = [Barrister](/source/Barrister)
|alma_mater       = [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) [University of Sussex](/source/University_of_Sussex)
}}

'''Alex Bailin''' [KC](/source/King's_Counsel) (born 23 January 1969) is an English [barrister](/source/barrister) specialising in criminal and international law, together with human rights and media law at [Matrix Chambers](/source/Matrix_Chambers).<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Matrix Chambers|first=Matrix Chambers|title=Alex Bailin Matrix Chambers Profile|url=http://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/Members/64/Alex%20Bailin.aspx|work=Matrix Chambers Barristers Profile|publisher=Matrix Chambers|accessdate=18 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Bailin QC - Global Investigations Review |url=https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/authors/alex-bailin-qc |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=globalinvestigationsreview.com |language=en}}</ref> Bailin is also a legal writer for ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'', ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'' and ''[The Lawyer](/source/The_Lawyer)'', among others.<ref>{{cite web|last=The|first=Lawyer|title=Article By Alex Bailin on The Lawyer|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/fsa%E2%80%99s-media-screening-plan-is-worrying-and-contradictory/1005869.article|work=The Lawyer|accessdate=18 July 2011}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news|last=The Guardian|first=The Guardian|title=Alex Bailin The Guardian Profile|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alex-bailin|work=The Guardian|accessdate=18 July 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110713060052/http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alex-bailin| archivedate= 13 July 2011 | url-status= live| location=London| date=23 March 2010}}</ref>

==Education and career==
Bailin read mathematics at [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge) and law at [Sussex University](/source/Sussex_University).<ref>{{cite web|last=Cambridge University|title=Cambridge University Lecture event|url=http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2011/02/culs-lecture-life-at-the-modern-bar-human-rights-and-criminal-law/1436|work=Cambridge University|accessdate=19 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927153728/http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2011/02/culs-lecture-life-at-the-modern-bar-human-rights-and-criminal-law/1436|archive-date=27 September 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He initially worked as a derivatives trader in the City of London.<ref name=":0" /> Bailin was called to the Bar ([Lincoln's Inn](/source/Lincoln's_Inn)) in November 1995 and took silk in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=qcappointments |title=2010 qc appointments list |url=http://www.qcappointments.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/List-of-Appointed-Applicants-2009-10.doc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920233222/http://www.qcappointments.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/List-of-Appointed-Applicants-2009-10.doc |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 September 2011 |work=qcappointments website |publisher=qcappointments |accessdate=19 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Debretts|title=Alex Bailin, Esq, QC's Biography|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/27131/Alex+BAILIN.aspx|work=Debretts|accessdate=18 July 2011}}</ref> Bailin practices in human rights, public and administrative law, public international law, criminal fraud, criminal law and media law.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Bailin > Matrix Chambers > London > England {{!}} Lawyer Profile |url=https://www.legal500.com/firms/9227-matrix-chambers/9227-london-england/lawyers/628798-alex-bailin-qc/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.legal500.com}}</ref>

Bailin is a Deputy High Court Judge in the Administrative Court and a Recorder at the Crown Court.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

Bailin contributes legal articles to ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''The Lawyer'', the ''[New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman)'' and various legal journals.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{cite web|last=UKSCb|title=UKSCb Article by Bailin|url=http://ukscblog.com/case-comment-r-smith-v-secretary-of-state-for-defence-2010-uksc-29|work=UKSCb|accessdate=19 July 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110707181000/http://ukscblog.com/case-comment-r-smith-v-secretary-of-state-for-defence-2010-uksc-29| archivedate= 7 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Bailin, Author at New Statesman |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/author/alex-bailin |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Cases==

===Criminal fraud and corporate crime===
* R v Railtrack plc and its former Chief Executive ([corporate manslaughter](/source/corporate_manslaughter), [Hatfield rail crash](/source/Hatfield_rail_crash))<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=September 2022 |title=Alex Bailin KC Case List |url=https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alex-Bailin-KC-Case-list.pdf |website=Matrix Chambers}}</ref>
* R(Redknapp) v [City of London Police](/source/City_of_London_Police) 2009 1 WLR 2091 (corruption investigation in [premiership](/source/Premier_League) football)<ref name=":3" />
* R(Tchenguiz) v SFO (collapse of [Kaupthing Bank](/source/Kaupthing_Bank))<ref name=":3" />

=== Crime ===

* R v [Katharine Gun](/source/Katharine_Gun) ([GCHQ](/source/GCHQ) employee – [Official Secrets Act](/source/Official_Secrets_Act_1989) disclosures relating to the [Iraq War](/source/Iraq_War))<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-22 |title=Let's free the Official Secrets Act from its cold war freeze {{!}} Alex Bailin |url=http://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/sep/22/official-secrets-act-cold-war |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
* R v Dunlop (first double jeopardy application to quash a murder acquittal)<ref name=":3" />

=== Extradition ===
* USA v [Lauri Love](/source/Lauri_Love) (‘forum bar’)<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love faces wait after extradition appeal |url=https://news.sky.com/story/alleged-computer-hacker-lauri-love-faces-wait-after-extradition-appeal-11150387 |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref>
* USA v [Mike Lynch](/source/Mike_Lynch_(businessman)) 2021–present (CEO of [Autonomy plc](/source/HP_Autonomy))<ref>{{Cite web |title=Technology tycoon facing extradition begins latest stage of legal battle |url=https://guernseypress.com//news/uk-news/2022/01/21/technology-tycoon-facing-extradition-begins-latest-stage-of-legal-battle/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=guernseypress.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-22 |title=British businessman Mike Lynch faces extradition to US |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/22/british-businessman-mike-lynch-faces-extradition-to-us |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Browning |first=Jonathan |date=February 2021 |title=British Tycoon Mike Lynch Back in Court — This Time Facing U.S. |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/british-tycoon-mike-lynch-back-in-court-this-time-facing-u-s |website=Bloomberg}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-07-22 |title=Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules UK court |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b31f5667-5ebc-4f0e-9770-20bb69105bcb |access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref>

===Human rights===
* R (C & GC) v [Metropolitan Police](/source/Metropolitan_Police) [2011] 1 WLR 1230 ([Supreme Court](/source/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom) – retention of non-convicted persons' [DNA](/source/DNA))<ref name=":3" />
* A and others v [Home Secretary](/source/Home_Secretary) [2005] 2 AC 68 ([House of Lords](/source/House_of_Lords) appeal in Belmarsh case – detention without trial of suspected terrorists)<ref name=":3" />
* Da Silva v UK ([European Court of Human Rights](/source/European_Court_of_Human_Rights) [GC], [shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes](/source/shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes))<ref name=":3" />

===Public law===
* R(Gentle) v Prime Minister [2008] 1 AC 1356 ([House of Lords](/source/House_of_Lords) appeal – legality of Iraq war and duty to hold a public inquiry)<ref>{{cite web|last=Parliament HL|title=Judgments – R (on the application of Gentle (FC) and another (FC)) (Appellants) v The Prime Minister and others (Respondents)|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd080409/gentl-1.htm|work=HoLJC Judgments|publisher=Parliament|accessdate=19 July 2011}}</ref>

=== Media law ===

* Gubarev v [BuzzFeed](/source/BuzzFeed) (international defamation claims arising from Trump Dossier)<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2018 |title=Buzzfeed v Gubarev and Steele judgment |url=https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/buzzfeed-v-gubarev-and-steele-judgment.pdf |website=Royal Courts of Justice}}</ref>
* [Litvinenko](/source/Alexander_Litvinenko) Inquiry (representing UK print and broadcast media)<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-11-14 |title=Litvinenko inquiry witnesses want broadcast ban |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30054449 |access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref>
* [David Miranda](/source/David_Miranda_(politician)) ([Snowden](/source/Edward_Snowden) material, journalistic protections)<ref name=":3" />
* Advising ''The Guardian'' concerning the publication of [WikiLeaks](/source/WikiLeaks) material<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=QC |first=Alex Bailin |title=The Assange extradition saga won't be over any time soon |newspaper=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/the-assange-extradition-saga-won-t-be-over-any-time-soon-d25sg6zpr |access-date=2022-09-30 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

==Publications==
*Fraud: Criminal Law & Procedure ([Companies Act](/source/Companies_Act) chapter)
*Human Rights & Criminal Justice (2nd ed., contributing author)
*[Blackstone's Criminal Practice](/source/Blackstone's_Criminal_Practice) ([Official Secrets Act](/source/Official_Secrets_Act) chapter)<ref>{{cite book|last=al.]|first=Tim Owen ... [et|title=Blackstone's guide to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-928906-6}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110927052600/http://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/MemberPage.aspx?MemberId=64 Alex Bailin Matrix Chambers Profile] (Matrix Chambers)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alex-bailin Alex Bailin Guardian Profile] (The Guardian)

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