Guernica 37 Chambers Information

Welcome to The Guernica 37 Chambers - Bringing Accountability for International Crimes and Human Rights Violations - A specialist group of international practitioners that bring together the core values of a socially committed and multi-disciplinary legal practice in the international criminal law field. Our Story Almudena and Toby met in 2011 when they both were lawyers at their previous posts. Almudena had specialised as a plaintiffs/victims attorney seeking accountability from a public interest or non profit platform. Almudena had adapted and although legal pro Bono counsel had largely supplemented her work, she always noticed the field of international law when it came to litigation, lacked the necessary expertise. Toby on the other hand, had forged professionally serving private interests but concern and aware of the social dimension of the work and those - the victims- inevitable excluded. Almudena was rather outspoken about serving victims and their communities from and with a different approach and model, so was Toby, a model that would count, as part of the same team, highly regarded counsel trained in private practice with highly regarded counsel coming from public interest with deep knowledge and exposure of the national Realities at stake. Effective accountability needed both, deep legal Understanding and experience inform by detailed knowledge of the realities it aims to impact. Guernica was born with the aspiration that such model is possible. That Justice and Accountability are never standard, even if human rights and aspirations must be. We wanted a model that is truly international, diverse, with a wider and deeper reach. That is Guernica 37.