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.