Members | Guernica 37
Guernica 37 was co-founded by Toby Cadman and Almudena Bernabeu and is part of The Guernica Group. It operates from Chambers in Central London with associated offices in Madrid and San Francisco. Victoria Bernabeu as Head of Administration and Finance, Nenad Vucijak as Senior Clerk and Chelsea Qu as Executive Assistant to the Head of Chambers.
Toby Cadman
Co-Founder
Toby is the Co-founder and Head of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers in London.
Almudena Bernabeu
Co-Founder
Almudena Bernabeu is a renowned international lawyer with a long career in Transitional Justice and International Criminal and Human Rights Law.
Carl Buckley
Member
Carl is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and prior to qualifying as a Barrister was a Solicitor specialising in crime and public international law.
Mark Hambling
Member
Mark is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and prior to qualifying as a Barrister, Mark was the Deputy Head of Interpol UK.
Najib Rahman
Member
Najib is a member of the Bar of England and Wales. Prior to qualifying as a Barrister he practised in Bangladesh as advocate and worked for six years as a case manager with the defence at the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh.
Ibrahim Olabi
Member
Ibrahim is a member of the Bar of England and Wales, having completed pupillage in Chambers in 2019. He has developed specialist knowledge and experience in international law, currently applying it to the Middle East and North Africa.
Omar Soliman
Member
Omar became a Guernica 37 member, following successful completion of his pupillage in September 2020. He is developing a practice across a spectrum of chambers’ practice areas, with a particular focus in international human rights, extradition, international crime and immigration.
Howard Varney
Member
Howard is a South African barrister practicing at the Johannesburg Bar. His legal practice comprises human rights, constitutional and administrative law cases.
Shannon Raj Singh
Member
Shannon is an American attorney specialized in international criminal law, the intersection of technology and human rights, and the prevention of mass atrocities.
Monica Roma Wilson
Member
Mónica is a Portuguese-British attorney. She has lived and worked in Lisbon, Brussels, London, Islamabad, Beijing, New York and The Hague.
Dr Mark Kersten
Associate Member
Mark Kersten is a Fellow, researcher, and consultant based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, as well as the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation
Miriam Helena Boxberg
Pupil Barrister
Poppy Henderson
Junior Associate
Poppy recently completed her Law with South East Asian Law LL.B degree at the University of Nottingham, having spent her third year abroad at the National University of Singapore. She is currently undertaking her BPTC at BPP Law School in London.
Clarissa Rodio
Intern
Clarissa is currently in the process of terminating the LLM that she has undertaken concurrently with the BPTC at City University of London.
Victoria Bernabéu
Head of Administration & Finance
Victoria leads Chambers' administrative and financial department. She is also in charge of all other organisational needs of Guernica 37.
Nenad Vucijak
Chambers Adminstrator/Senior Clerk
Nenad is a professionally qualified, highly experienced operations manager with extensive knowledge and skills in all aspects of business management.
Chelsea Qu
Executive Assistant to the Head of Chambers
A native of Sichuan Province in the People’s Republic of China, Chelsea has lived, studied and worked in the UK for almost ten years.
Patricia Viseur Sellers Esq
Advisory Council Member
Patricia Viseur Sellers Esq. is the Special Advisor for Prosecution Strategies for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Manuel Ramiro Muñoz PhD
Advisory Council Member
Founder and Director of the Institute for Intercultural Studies at the Pontifical Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia.
Mazen Darwish
Advisory Council Member
Mazen is the President of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (CMFE), a partner organization of Reporters Without Borders.
Yogeswaran Veeresan SJ
Advisory Council Member
Father Yoges is the Director of the Sri Lankan organisation "Center for Promotion & Protection of Human Rights" (CPPHR).
Fernando Flores Giménez
Advisory Council Member
Member of the Institute of Human Rights and the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administration, Universitat de València (Spain).
HHJ Keith Raynor
Advisory Council Member
Judge Keith Raynor is a circuit Judge in Woolwich Crown Court in South-East London where he presides over trials on cases including murder.
