Archive: May 2024

Sara Anzani appointed as Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge

Goldsmith Chambers is delighted to announce that Sara Anzani has been appointed as a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). Sara is an experienced member of Chambers’ Immigration and Public Law team, specialising in all areas of immigration, asylum and nationality law.

Samina Iqbal appointed as Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge

Goldsmith Chambers is delighted to announce that Samina Iqbal, a senior practitioner in the Immigration and Public Law team has been appointed as a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). Samina has been sitting as a Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal in the IAC since 2006, which she has also undertaken […]

Re A and B (children: expert’s reports) [2024] EWHC 948 (Fam)

Dr Charlotte Proudman successfully represented a mother in an appeal against the decision to appoint a psychologist to undertake a ‘family assessment’. Cafcass supported the father’s application for an assessment. The ‘expert’ described his main interest as allegations of ‘parental alienation’. The mother is a victim of domestic abuse; she was accused by the father […]

Re O (Appeal; Duty to Consider Fact-Find) [2024] EWHC 839 (Fam)

Dr Charlotte Proudman successfully represented a mother in an appeal against an unsupervised child contact order on five grounds, including the previous judge’s failure to consider the mother’s vulnerability and whether she needed special measures, failure to consider whether there should be a fact-finding on mother’s allegations of abuse, and failure to implement PD12J. Despite […]

 

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