The Joint-Heads of Chambers’ immigration and public law team, Samina Iqbal and Sarah Pinder, were invited to give evidence to the House of Lords’ Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee as part of the Committee’s inquiry on family migration. The meeting took place on 18th October 2022 at 10am.
You can access a recording of the meeting here. The Committee is chaired by Baroness Hamwee and, save for one member, all members of the Committee were in attendance.
Both Samina and Sarah were invited to give evidence as experts crossing into both the family and immigration law jurisdictions, particularly in relation to children and their best interests. Samina co-authored in 2019 a journal article entitled “Family and immigration Proceedings – treading the minefield for the practitioner” for the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law Journal (IANLJ) (Vol 33, No.3, 2019). She specifically looked at the learnings from the family jurisdiction, including the best interests of a child, and how these may be relevant or may inform immigration cases as far as children and families are concerned.
Sarah has also recently been published in the Lexis Nexis Family Law Journal. The two articles ‘Surrogacy amidst the Ukraine Conflict’ and ‘Inter-country adoptions – a nationality and immigration law perspective’ appear in the August and October 2022 issues.
Related barristers: Samina Iqbal, Sarah Pinder
Related practice areas: Immigration and Public Law
