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Sangeetha Iengar writes blog post “Europe’s Borderlands: The New Shooting Range for Power Politics”

Chambers is proud of its association with the Border Criminologies department at the University of Oxford’s Law Faculty.  Sangeetha Iengar, a member of Chambers’ immigration team, was asked to write an article for Border Criminologies Blog, drawing attention to the recent tensions involving asylum seekers on the Turkish-Greek border. You can access the post here.  For ease, the article has been […]

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PK (Ukraine) v SSHD

Anthony Metzer QC was instructed as leading Counsel in PK before the Court of Appeal. The appeal was allowed and the case was remitted back to the Upper Tribunal. The Court of Appeal also confirmed that clarification will be required in relation to draft evaders (from Ukraine) as to whether an appellant can successfully claim […]

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Dr Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmith Chambers and Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers represented the mother in an application for a Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order before the President of the Family Division

In the matter of Re A (A Child: Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum [2019] EWHC 2475, Dr Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmith Chambers and Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers represented the mother in an application before an Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order before the President of the Family Division. The case concerned a girl age 10 of Sudanese origin with Bahraini citizenship. The […]

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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 […]

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Dr Charlotte Proudman successfully represents the mother in FGM case

Re X (Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order. No.2) [2019] EWHC 1990 (Fam) Nkumbe Ekaney QC and Dr Charlotte Proudman represented the mother in a case concerning a FGM Protection Order (“FGMPO”). The local authority applied for a travel ban to prohibit the mother’s child from leaving the jurisdiction to visit her father in Egypt due to […]

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SSHD V Banger (part two): Extended Family Members and Appeal Rights

Following the resumed hearing on 20th March 2019, before the President of the Upper Tribunal, Mr Justice Lane and Upper Tribunal Judge Rimington, the final Decision in Banger has now been reported: Banger (EEA: EFM – Right of Appeal) [2019] UKUT 00194(IAC).   Ms Banger was represented pro bono by Anthony Metzer QC and Sanaz Saifolahi. […]

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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 […]

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Chambers’ Spring Immigration Update Seminar

On Wednesday 8 May, Goldsmith Chambers welcomed immigration practitioners to its Spring Update seminar held at BPP Holborn. Head of Chambers Anthony Metzer QC opened the evening with a recap of the Banger EFM Regulation 9 and appeal rights litigation, in which he was lead counsel, including its success in the CJEU and the recent Upper Tribunal […]

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Breaking the Chains Launch Event

Sangeetha Iengar of Goldsmith Chambers’ immigration team attended a launch event at Parliament on Thursday 25th April launching ‘Breaking the Chains’, a programme co-run by Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit and Shpresa, a charity which focuses on the welfare of unaccompanied Albanian asylum-seeking children. The discussion between inter-disciplinary practitioners threw up shared concern on the limited asylum routes available for […]

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Samina Iqbal and Kezia Tobin present Lexis Nexis webinar

Samina Iqbal and Kezia Tobin present the latest developments in immigration law in a new LexisNexis webinar released on Wednesday 1st May. In the hour long update, Samina and Kezia discuss the Supreme Court cases of KV (Sri Lanka) v SSHD [2019] UKSC 10 on scarring in asylum appeals, and KO (Nigeria) v SSHD [2018] UKSC 53 on […]

 

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