Chambers Articles

Webinar – Remote Hearings & Evidence from Witnesses who are Overseas

As part of our Goldsmith immigration and public law team’s Spring 2021 Webinar Series, Sanaz Saifolahi presented the third webinar on 16th February 2021. You can access a copy of the presentation slides here and view the recording by clicking on the link immediately below. Sanaz explores what many practitioners have had to grapple with in recent […]

Webinar – Local Authority Duties to non-British Children

Bronwen Jones of both immigration & public law and family teams presented the second webinar in the Spring 2021 Series on 11th February 2021. You can access a copy of the presentation slides here and view the recording by clicking on the link immediately below. As this Free Movement article summarises, local authorities have recently come under […]

Webinar – Brexit, Withdrawal Agreement & EU Settlement Scheme

The Goldsmith immigration and public law team were delighted to collaborate with the3million for this first webinar of the team’s Spring 2021 Series. You can access a copy of the presentation slides here and view the recording by clicking on the link immediately below. The joint heads of team, Samina Iqbal and Sarah Pinder provide an insight […]

Immigration & Public Law Team publish EU Settlement Flyers

Goldsmith Chambers’ immigration and public law team have published an easy-access flyer to try and help raise awareness of the need for EU nationals and their family members living in the UK to apply under the EU Settlement Scheme. The flyer has been published in English and so far, five other languages: Tamil, Italian, Polish, […]

‘A Practical Guide to Claims for Unlawful Detention and False Imprisonment in Immigration and Asylum Cases’

OUT NOW: ‘A Practical Guide to Claims for Unlawful Detention and False Imprisonment in Immigration and Asylum Cases’ by Samina Iqbal, joint-head of the immigration and public law team. Samina is a senior public law and immigration practitioner with over 20 years’ experience, and a growing specialism in challenges to unlawful detention, crossing over with claims […]

Ministry of Justice Consultation on Court of Appeal – January 2021

Following the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on the Court of Appeal, the immigration and public law team’s response can be access here. In the consultation, the MoJ propose to improve the efficiency of the unified tribunal system by limiting the extent to which an unsuccessful litigant can require the Court of Appeal to further examine judicial decisions made […]

Response to the Call for Evidence – Inspection of the work of Home Office Presenting Officers – January 2020

Following his call for evidence in 2019/2020, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s report on his inspection of the Home Office Presenting Officer function has been published.  You can access the report here as well as the Home Office’s response here. Chambers’ immigration team submitted a response to the call for evidence, which you can access here.  […]

Launch of our Immigration & Public Law Team and Animal Rights Team

Thank you to all those who registered and attended the launch of the expanded and new teams:  immigration & public law and animal rights. We hope you enjoyed the evening with us.  We were delighted that The Hon. Mr Justice Fordham, High Court Judge and Kevin Schneider, Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in the […]

Business Immigration – 2021 Virtual Conference on 3rd February 2021 – MBL Seminars Ltd

Several of our members are joining MBL Seminars Ltd to host the Business Immigration – 2021 Virtual Conference on 3rd February 2021 at 10am! Do join us – the conference will bring together several experts in the field: – Our very own co-heads of team Sarah Pinder as Chair and speaker (The Points-Based System & Fairness), Samina Iqbal and colleague Sanaz Saifolahi, Goldsmith Chambers […]

 

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