Chambers congratulates Ian Beeby on being called to the Bar of Ireland. Ian is now authorised to receive instructions and appear at hearings in Irish courts at every level.
Robert acted for the Claimant in the Court of Appeal challenging a decision by the First Tier Tribunal striking out an appeal against a decision of the Secretary of State refusing his Article 8 claim for lack of jurisdiction. The Claimant had made an out-of-time human rights claim no right of appeal under the rules…
Emma Harris this week successfully had set aside and remade in the Appellant’s favour, the decision of a First-Tier Tribunal Judge who had wrongly found as a matter of fact that, as both parents of a child were Indian Nationals, it followed automatically that the two children born in the UK must have been Indian…
An elderly Adult Dependent Relative represented by Emma Harris, instructed by Nag Law Solicitors, has been successful in her appeal against the refusal of her claim to join her son in the UK. In this case, perhaps unusually, it was possible to show that although the Appellant’s sponsor was capable of supporting her and looking…
The Supreme Court heard the case of Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti on 12th and 13th June 2019. Matt Jackson was junior counsel for the Appellant (Ms Jhuti) led by Seán Jones QC. The case related to the law of attribution, and when, in the context of unfair dismissal, an employee’s motivations are attributed…
The Secretary of State’s decision was quashed where he failed to grant a Tier 1 Applicant indefinite leave to remain outside of the rules based upon the exceptional circumstances. The decision was held to be procedurally unfair and the Secretary of State applied the wrong test for exceptionality.
The Court of Appeal has granted permission to appeal on a point of principle. Following the Supreme Court decision in Rhuppiah v SSHD [2018] UKSC 58, the Court is to reassess the extent of flexibility and approach in Article 8 cases where the Appellant has precarious immigration status. The Court also considered there were compelling…
In a direct access case where an application for leave to remain by parents and their teenage child who had been here for more than 7 years was initially refused and then granted just before the appeal Jonathan Martin assisted the family to make a costs application to the Court. The Home Office response was to…