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Dr Anton van Dellen and Sarah Pinder speakers at Law Friends Society’s Manchester Immigration Conference – 10th October 2019

Dr Anton van Dellen and Sarah Pinder from Chambers’ immigration team will be joining the Law Friends Society’s Immigration Conference in Manchester on 10th October 2019. Anton will deliver a lecture on what has become known as the “Hamid” cases and the reach of disciplinary tribunals in the immigration courts. Sarah will provide a comprehensive […]

Samina Iqbal co-authors journal article

Samina Iqbal, of Chambers’ immigration team, has recently co-authored a very comprehensive article for those practising in the areas of immigration and family law. The paper seeks to highlight the problems of specialisation and provides practitioners with the tools needed in both jurisdictions, to address the issues of confidentiality and disclosure in respect of orders made in […]

Training with the Society of British-Bangladeshi Solicitors

Samina Iqbal and Sarah Pinder, of Goldsmith Chambers’ immigration team, were pleased to join the Society of British-Bangladeshi Solicitors on Saturday 14th September 2019 for a full day’s CPD training. Sarah started the morning session with a 3-hour update on Article 8 ECHR covering the recent Supreme Court cases of KO (Nigeria) and Ruppiah and […]

Head of Chambers, Anthony Metzer QC appointed visiting fellow

De Montford University in Leicester has appointed Anthony Metzer QC, as a visiting fellow of the Centre of Research and Innovation for Sport, Technology and the Law (CRISTAL).  Last November, Anthony  delivered a talk on “International Sport and the law from an athlete’s perspective”at the University’s Sports Law conference  which was co-hosted by the Law School and the […]

Roger Hood Lecture at University of Oxford

Anthony Metzer QC, Christobel McCoey and Sangeetha Iengar of Goldsmith Chambers attended the Annual Roger Hood Lecture, part of the All Souls Criminology Seminar Series held at the University of Oxford. This year’s lecture was entitled ‘(De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship and penal power’ and was delivered by Professor Katja Franko of the University of […]

Law Friends Immigration Law & Criminal Law Conferences

The Law Friends Society organises conferences in crime, immigration and family law, providing legal professionals with practical advice and analysis of recent case law.  Goldsmith Chambers was proud to co-host the Immigration Law Seminar on the 23 May, with around 100 practitioners in attendance. Samina Iqbal,  Sarah Pinder,  Kezia Tobin and Lawrence Youseffian delivered presentations covering a […]

Linda Turnbull elected Bencher at Lincoln’s Inn

Goldsmith Chambers is delighted to announce that Linda Turnbull, of Goldsmith Chambers’ family and immigration teams, has been elected as a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. In addition, Linda has served on several other committees at Lincoln’s Inn, namely Chapel, Pre-Call Education, Outreach, Collegiality and she is co-chair of the Social & Wellbeing Committee. At the […]

Tower of London’s Ceremony of the Keys

Goldsmith Chambers were honoured to be welcomed to an event at the Tower of London on Monday 20th May to witness the historic and prestigious “Ceremony of the Keys”. In recognition of their support for the Infantry Football Club, Goldsmith Chambers and MACS Legal Services were invited for a guided tour of HM Tower of […]

Chambers’ Spring Immigration Update Seminar

On Wednesday 8 May, Goldsmith Chambers welcomed immigration practitioners to its Spring Update seminar held at BPP Holborn. Samina Iqbal, who is joint-head of the immigration team, chaired the evening and Head of Chambers Anthony Metzer QC opened with a recap of the Banger EFM Regulation 9 and appeal rights litigation, in which he was lead counsel, including its […]

Head of Chambers Anthony Metzer QC speaks at Surrey University

Anthony Metzer QC was hosted at Surrey University as their Distinguished Discussant for the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy Spring Keynote address on 7th May 2019. Anthony delivered a talk to students on criminal law focusing on applying philosophical ideas about criminality in practice as a criminal barrister and then was part of a discussion […]

 

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