BVC: Nottingham Trent
Call: 1998
Member of Lincoln’s Inn
Practice
IMMIGRATION LAW SPECIALIST
Undertakes commercial immigration work and has extensive experience in all aspects of asylum, human rights, entry clearance, immigration and deportation
Appears before the Administrative Court regularly in immigration related judicial reviews
FAMILY LAW
Public childcare law for both local authorities and parents in care proceedings. Areas include, contact, residence, injunctions and committals
Other areas of work include judicial review, inquests and general common law
Other Information
Member of Family Law Bar Association, the Personal Injury Bar Association and the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
Notable Cases/Recent Work
* KJ (Entry Clearance Proportionality)
Iraq CG [2005] UKIAT 00066
Lead guideline case on removal from the United Kingdom, and whether an unlawful interference with right to family life, under Article 8 ECHR
* Acted in a large and complex matter representing a voluntary sector organisation in a multiple claimant judicial review against a local authority. Successfully settled with costs
* HD (Prison Conditions Iran - Record of Proceedings ECHR Article 3) Iran [2004] UKIAT 0020
Political prisoners and prison conditions; breach of Article 3 ECHR
* Junior Counsel in an immigration family law judicial review led by Ian MacDonald QC. Successfully settled with costs
* Re B [1999] 2 AC 136 House of Lords
Duties of a court in determining whether to make an adoption order, and thereby grant British Citizenship, which would have the effect of circumventing the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971