Immigration

1 Mitre Court Buildings has a longstanding commitment to the rights of individuals seeking asylum, entry and settlement in the United Kingdom. From initial application through to appellate litigation, our team of dedicated immigration practitioners provides a high quality comprehensive service of advice, drafting and representation to all persons affected by immigration and nationality law.

Member of the immigration team have particular expertise across the following fields of immigration law:

  • asylum and human rights;
  • deportation;
  • detention, bail and habeas corpus;
  • entry clearance;
  • EC free movement law;
  • Dublin II Convention removals;
  • settlement and return to the UK;
  • naturalisation;
  • nationality;
  • statelessness;
  • work permits;
  • Eastern European and Turkish Association Agreements;
  • Highly Skilled Migrant Programme;
  • business and investor applications

All members of the immigration team regularly appear before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal. Individual practitioners also have experience of litigation before the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights.

Recent reported cases

  • FP (Iran) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 13 (vires of rule 19 of 2005 Procedure Rules/whether asylum applicant liable for solicitor error)
  • AL (Serbia) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2006] EWCA Civ 1619 (compatibility of family amnesty policy with Article 14 ECHR)
  • Cabo Verde v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] EWCA Civ 1726 (admissibility of post-decision evidence)
  • KK IH HE (Palestinians – Lebanon – camps) Palestine CG [2004] UKIAT 00293
  • AH (Kurd-PKK-Risks in KDP area) Iraq [2004] UKIAT 00318
  • SA (GBTS Records) Turkey [2004] UKIAT 00229
  • DC (Non-traditional evangelical Group) Georgia [2004] UKIAT 00320
  • FM (IFA - Mixed Marriage - Albanian - Ashkaelian) Kosovo CG [2004] UKIAT 00081
  • MM (Article 3-Article 8-IFA) Algeria CG [2002] UKIAT 01327

Team members are able to draw upon the knowledge and experience of non-immigration practitioners in Chambers in cases bridging immigration and other fields of law. These include social security, housing, mental health, crime, employment, education, children, extradition and prisoners' rights.

The immigration team is always happy to be approached in order to provide in-house training.

For further details about the immigration team and its work, see our dedicated website at www.immigrationbarrister.co.uk.