Suspects in Europe

Ed Cape is a Professor of Criminal Law and Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol. A former criminal defence solicitor, he has a special interest in criminal justice, criminal procedure, police powers, defence lawyers and access to justice. He is an internationally known researcher in the field of criminal justice, and is also the author of texts, books and journal articles on a range of themes including the criminal defence profession, the regulation of police powers, police bail, legal aid and access to justice, and EU procedural rights.

Jacqueline Hodgson holds an LLB and PhD and has researched and written in the area of UK, French, comparative and European criminal justice. Much of her work draws upon her own empirical projects funded by the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhume Trust, AHRC, the European Commission and the Home Office. She has contributed to policy reform through her research for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice and her evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Europe. She has written widely in this area and her expertise has been sought in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, as well as in a number of European Arrest Warrant cases and other extradition cases. She held a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for 2009-2010. She was awarded the Social Science Faculty Impact prize in 2013. In 2013 she was elected to the Council of JUSTICE and in 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Following her graduation from the Utrecht University Faculty of Law in 1979, Taru Spronken worked as advocate and defence counsel in private practice in Maastricht the Netherlands. From 1987 onwards she was lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Maastricht. She is the founder of the University legal aid clinic (Advocatenpraktijk Universiteit Maastricht) in 1988 and was coordinator of this legal aid clinic during the first eight years. In 2002, she became Professor of Criminal Defence and in 2005 Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Maastricht. In September 2013, she became Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands and she remains part-time professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Maastricht University.