Arvinder Sambei
Barrister
ARVINDER SAMBEI is a practising barrister of over 30 years’ experience and one of the directors of London-based Amicus Legal Consultants.
She has previously held the posts of Head of Criminal Law at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Legal Adviser to the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) at the UK’s Ministry of Defence and Principal/Senior Crown Prosecutor (Crown Prosecution Service of England & Wales). As a prosecutor, she had conduct of many of the UK’s high profile extradition, counter-terrorism, transnational and war crimes cases. In addition, her responsibilities included liaison with other jurisdictions on treaty negotiations, extradition and mutual legal assistance requests.
As the Head of the Criminal Law Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat, she was responsible for ensuring design and delivery of programmes of assistance and training for member states to enhance criminal law systems.
Arvinder acts as an expert for many international and regional organisations (including Council of Europe, EU, IMF, and UN agencies) on anti-corruption & governance, AML/CFT, sanctions, international co-operation, asset recovery, economic crimes, corporate criminal liability, maritime crime and security, human rights and public international law. She has also been engaged in treaty and legislative drafting, state and project evaluation, and capacity building/technical assistance programmes.
She is a published author of legal texts (with Oxford University Press and others), an experienced trainer and has written articles, practitioner manuals and technical papers published by, inter alia, the Council of Europe, Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD, OSCE and UNODC on her areas of expertise.