Members of our Personal Immigration Team and Business Immigration Team specialise in: fresh claim refusals (e.g. including asylum and rights under the ECHR); certification of claims preventing in-country appeals; duration of leave (particularly in relation to Article 8 ECHR); 3rd country removals; unlawful detention; jurisdictional issues arising in relation to rights of appeal; decisions under discretionary policies; naturalisation decisions; and provision of welfare support from central government and local government (including provision of support by the SSHD and disputed age assessments).

Important cases that the Immigration Teams have been involved in include:

R (Gudanaviciene and others) v DLAC and Lord Chancellor [2014] EWCA Civ 1622; [2015] 1 WLR 2247 (test case on challenge to the ECF legal aid scheme under LASPO 2012).

R (EM and others) v SSHD [2014] UKSC 12; [2014] 2 WLR 409 (test case on third country removal certification and Article 3)

R (O) v SSHD [2016] UKSC 19; [2016] 1 WLR 1717 (immigration detention and mental health)

R (BXS) v SSHD [2014] EWHC 737 (Admin) (in country rights of appeal for EU nationals and certification)

R (Essa) v UT and SSHD [2012] EWCA Civ 1718; [2013] Imm AR 622 (Cart JR challenge to refusal to grant permission to appeal by UT; relevance of rehabilitation to deportation for EU nationals).

R (otao Akturk) v SSHD [2017] WLR (D) 145; [2017] EWHC 297 (Admin)

R (Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople Ltd) v SSHD [2019] EWHC 603 (Admin)

R (otao Karagul and others) v SSHD [2019] EWHC 3208 (Admin)

R(Bal & Ors) v Secretary of State for Defence R(Bal & Ors) v Secretary of State for Defence [2022] EWHC 2757