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Anthony Metzer QC & Sarah Pinder represent eight Commonwealth veterans in group action

Anthony Metzer QC, Head of Chambers leads Sarah Pinder,  joint-head of the immigration team, in a group judicial review claim brought by eight Fijian Commonwealth veterans, who served in the British army, including on numerous operations. They are instructed by Vinita Templeton, Director at Duncan Lewis. The group action has been launched with the letter before claim having being served upon the MOD […]

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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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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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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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Jane Heybroek interviewed by Radio 4’s Law in Action

Jane Heybroek of Chambers’ immigration team was interviewed by Joshua Rozenberg of the BBC. The interview formed part of the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action aired on Thursday 21st March 2019. Last week’s edition featured behind the scenes of an immigration tribunal, Taylor House, in central London. Joshua Rozenberg met applicants who want […]

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Landmark Supreme Court Judgment on medical evidence of torture

On Wednesday of last week, 6th March, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of KV (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] UKSC 10.  Charlotte Bayati, of Chambers’ immigration team, was part of the legal team who represented the Appellant KV led by Richard Drabble QC and instructed by […]

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EEA Regulations finally amended following the CJEU judgment in Banger

Further to our earlier posts, we are very pleased to report that the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 have finally been amended to implement the CJEU Judgment in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Banger (C89-17) 12th July 2018.  Anthony Metzer QC and Sanaz Saifolahi continue to represent Ms Banger. The Immigration (European […]

 

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