23rd May 2025
Lexis Nexis
Katherine Soroya provides updated guidance on procedure in the First-tier Tribunal (IAC) for Lexis Nexis. The guidance can be read here.
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7th May 2025
Complex Deportation Appeal allowed
Brenda Efurhievwe’s vulnerable client had his Deportation Appeal allowed on human rights grounds. The elderly appellant had spent the majority of his life in the UK and had not visited his country of origin since arriving in the UK as a teenager. Despite his lawful residence in the UK for several decades, the client’s Indefinite […]
24th Apr 2025
Free Movement
In an article for Free Movement, available here, Niamh Fegan summarises the key changes within the new Iran Country policy and information note on social media surveillance and sur place activities. She discusses how the changes might impact the Home Office’s assessment of certain asylum claims. The article can be read here.
24th Apr 2025
Webinar “Afghan clients: quasi refugee routes and issues in contemporary asylum claims”
Brenda Efurhievwe, a member of Chambers’ Immigration and Public Law team, is due to deliver a webinar for Free Movement on 21 May 2025. The webinar will consider the challenges faced by Afghans in accessing the available resettlement pathways and in succeeding in their in-country asylum claims. It aims to give practical legal knowledge for […]
23rd Apr 2025
V v V & Anor [2025] EWHC 945 (Fam) (16 April 2025)
[2025] EWHC 945 Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a mother, a victim of rape, abuse, and coercive and controlling behaviour, in an application to the Court of Appeal to bar a staying order with overnight contact between her young daughter and the rapist father. The mother and father began a ‘sexual relationship’ when she was 15 […]
10th Apr 2025
Free Movement
Katherine Soroya has written for Free Movement providing updated guidance on the further submissions process in immigration cases. The article considers common problems and how to tackle them, explores the findings of a recent UNHCR report and covers the relevant legal tests in these applications.
3rd Apr 2025
Dr Charlotte Proudman represents rape victim who won family court first
This precedent-setting judgment granted Ms M, a survivor of rape and abuse, permission to publish media articles and speak at events about her experiences of the family justice system and domestic abuse, provided she used an alias to protect the anonymity of her child, C. The judgment emphasised the weight and importance of Ms M’s rights under […]
25th Mar 2025
Dr Charlotte Proudman represented the mother at a re-trial of fact-finding in family case securing findings of rape, abuse and coercive control
Father v Mother [2024] EWFC 419 (B) Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a victim of rape in a successful appeal and fact-finding. A previous judge found mother had fabricated rape allegations. The father had accused the mother of ‘parental alienation’. Dr Proudman successfully appealed. At a re-hearing, the judge found that the father had raped, abused […]
25th Mar 2025
Dr Charlotte Proudman represented mother in international child contact dispute
Father v Mother & Anor [2024] EWHC 3332 (Fam) (04 September 2024) Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a mother in an international child contact case. The case involves a long-running custody and contact dispute between the parents of a child who was previously abducted from the United States by the mother in 2019. A local US […]
24th Mar 2025
Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2025
We are delighted to announce that Dr Charlotte Proudman jointly won (with Monica Feria-Tinta of Twenty Essex Chambers) Woman of the Year at this year’s awards. We are also proud to share that three other members and staff of Chambers were also shortlisted: Anthony Metzer KC – Mentor of the Year Sara Anzani – Returner […]
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