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Liam analyses the use of planning law to regulate short-term letting, such as the type facilitated by Airbnb. He compares the efficiency of the use of statute versus common-law nuisance claims. His article forms part of a special issue of the EJRR on the regulation of disruptive innovations. Liam is currently undertaking PhD research in […]
The immigration team in Goldsmith Chambers is proud to announce its partnership with Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, an NGO based in Lesvos, Greece. We champion Fenix’s mission of seeking to provide accurate and timely legal information and advice to all asylum seekers and refugees in Lesvos. The refugee ‘crisis’ saw over 1 million asylum seekers arrive onto […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following the Law Commission reviewing the Immigration Rules and launching a consultation on their simplification, the immigration team in chambers has submitted the following entry: Introduction Goldsmith Chambers is a leading multidisciplinary Barristers’ chambers based in Temple, London. The immigration team, ranked in band 4 by the Legal 500, is comprised of over 35 practitioners […]
Whilst the flow of asylum seekers onto Greek shores has slowed in the last year, another crisis is emerging in its wake – the systematic dispossession and forced destitution of the most vulnerable refugees in mainland Greece. In response to the one million plus asylum seekers who arrived in Greece between 2015-2016 the UNHCR[1]established “ESTIA” […]
Dr Charlotte Proudman was invited as a Visiting Scholar by Professor David Oppenheimer organiser of the Berkeley Comparative Equality & Anti-discrimination Law Study Group to spend time at Berkeley Law School, the University of California. Charlotte is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge where she researches Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) law and […]
On 16 April 2019, in the case of Balajigari v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 673, the Court of Appeal gave an important judgment in the linked appeals, heard in January, concerning the controversial Home Office practice to refuse settlement to Highly Skilled Migrants (T1GM ILR decisions) in cases […]
Chambers is excited to announce that it is launching a new extradition law team. You can access the new practice area page here with details of all of our new team members. Extradition is the legal process through which individuals facing criminal prosecution overseas are requested to be delivered by the United Kingdom to foreign authorities. Extradition […]
Harry comments on the case of R. v D (CA) on whether, for the purpose of prosecution for having a bladed article in a public place, a purposive or literal interpretation was more appropriate to deciding whether a cut-throat razor was a “folding pocketknife” within the exemption under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 s.139(2) and […]
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