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Chambers & Partners – 2025

Chambers is delighted to announce that a number of members of chambers have been ranked in Chambers & Partners 2025 edition. Crime: Anthony Metzer KC – Silk – Band 3 Family: Matrimonial Finance Victoria Wilson – Band 4 Immigration: Set – Band 4 Anthony Metzer KC – Silk – Band 3 Sanaz Saifolahi – Band […]

Legal 500 – 2025

Chambers is very proud that we again have several members recognised in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500 directory. The rankings have been published as follows: Administrative Law & Human Rights Leading Silk – Anthony Metzer KC – Tier 3 Clinical Negligence Leading Junior – Heather Beckett – Tier 4 Crime Leading Silk – […]

Chambers continues to grow

Chambers is delighted to announce the return of three former members of Chambers: Charlotte Bull and Matthew Paul have returned to our Crime team. Jan Doerfel has returned to our Immigration and Public Law team.

Sara Anzani secures grant of stay on removal by the Upper Tribunal

Sara Anzani, a senior practitioner in Chambers’ Immigration and Public Law team, has obtained a stay on removal for her client, who was due to be removed to Tirana this week. Upper Tribunal Judge Bruce, finding that the balance of convenience lay in granting a stay, observed that the SSHD’s decision to certify the Applicant’s […]

Advocacy Excellence Award

Congratulations to Hannah Wilson, who was awarded an Advocacy Excellence Award at the Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Training Program hosted by the University of Florida last week.

Hannah Summers & Anor v Kristoffer Paul Arthur White & Ors [2024] EWFC 182

Dr Charlotte Proudman and Elisabeth Traugott successfully represented a mother in an application to publish the father’s name in a family court case. He is a serial rapist. The father raped the child’s mother on three occasions and coercively controlled her. When he was in the army, he raped a teenage girl and was convicted. […]

Samina Iqbal appointed as Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal

Chambers is delighted to announce that Samina Iqbal, a senior practitioner in the Immigration and Public Law team, has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal. She has also, at the same time, been appointed as a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal. Samina has been assigned to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (for […]

COURT OF APPEAL ALLOWS APPEAL OF MR HASANAJ

Further to our earlier post, the Court of Appeal has today allowed the appeal of Mr Hasanaj. Mr Hasanaj entered the UK in March 2019 along with his sister and her children. On arrival at the border, the Immigration officer stamped Mr Hasanaj’s passport with the words “Admitted to the United Kingdom under the Immigration […]

 

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