Junior tenant Emma Harris, acting for a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, recently succeeded in obtaining permission in a judicial review application within hours of her client being put on a plane to be removed from the UK. The decision by the Secretary of State for the Home Department had been that new evidence produced did not amount to a fresh…
Civil Team leader, James Bogle, acting for the applicant/defendant, recently succeeded in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court in varying a long-standing judgment of 7 years to allow the applicant to go to trial and plead extortionate credit bargain and a penalty. The applicant did not learn of the judgment, obtained in October 2007,…
10KBW’s Family Team is pleased to announce that it will be holding a free seminar entitled Wards of Court: The King case and Family Court update at 6pm on 15th October 2014 in the Bridewell Hall, St Bride’s Institute, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ. (View map.) They are SRA accredited with 2 CPD points.
This year’s free Immigration Team seminars will be held at 5.30pm on 23rd September 2014 and 7th October 2014 in the Bridewell Hall, St Bride’s Institute, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ. (View map.) They are SRA accredited with 2 CPD points. Titles of seminars and speakers’ names will be announced shortly.
Chambers would like to welcome its newest tenant, Christina Warner. Christina qualified as a solicitor advocate in 2012 and has extensive experience across family, criminal defence (since 2002) and corporate immigration law, having worked for various Legal 500 firms. She holds an undergraduate degree in English and Spanish Law and a master’s in Law and has…
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An article by Immigration Team member Faraz Shibli has been published on the Electronic Immigration Network. Entitled ‘Locked up and shipped out: Fast track asylum’, his article discusses flaws in the Detained Fast Track system and a recent Sri Lankan asylum case that attracted the attention of Channel 4 News. The case involved a Tamil woman whom Faraz…
Civil Team leader, James Bogle, acting for the appellant, succeeded in a recent appeal to the Court of Appeal, the Master of the Rolls presiding, in a case involving a retailer’s authority to act as the agent of a finance company to receive notice of revocation. In C F Asset Finance Ltd v Okonji and…