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Brenda Efurhievwe’s bisexual client succeeded in his error of law appeal to the Upper Tribunal. The unreported decision in MA v Secretary of State for the Home Department UI-2025-000713 can be accessed here. The client, a young bisexual Pakistani man initially had his asylum claim refused on the basis of credibility. In the subsequent asylum […]
Katherine Soroya provides updated guidance on procedure in the First-tier Tribunal (IAC) for Lexis Nexis. The guidance can be read here.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
[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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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