Edward Fitzgerald KC
TrialWatch Advisory Board
Previous commendations include Legal Aid Lawyer of the year 2009, winner of the Silk of the Year award 2005 and Times Justice Human Rights Award 1998. He specializes in criminal law, public law, judicial review, and international human rights law. In June 2008 he was awarded the CBE for services to human rights.
Edward is ranked 1st in Extradition in Chambers and Partners 2017, as a ‘starred individual’ in the area of Crime in 2018, and has been described as “a true intellectual giant – a top-class extradition and appellate lawyer”, a “king of the field” and “a Rolls Royce in the cab-rank of barristers”.
Edward Fitzgerald KC has been named Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year (Chambers Bar Awards 2013).