We are delighted to congratulate our pupil Spencer Turner on winning first prize in The Times/One Essex Court Law Awards for his essay. Spencer commences his second six pupillage on the 3rd April
Kemi Ojutiku says that arbitration can offer a cheaper, more effective remedy than going to court to protect your rights. To see the full update click on....
Mark Eldridge was successful in securing convictions of S18 against 2 defendants and perverting the course of justice for 2 others after a month long trial at Blackfriars Crown Court. The sentences ranged from 14 months to 14 years.
We are delighted to welcome the following new members; Martin McGann (2007 call), Trisan Hyatt (2009 call), Timothy Greaves (2017 call & qualified as a solicitor in 2005) and Christopher Payne on successful completion of his pupillage
In the reported cases of W v SSHD [2017] EWHC 1733 (Fam) & ELO and CLO v SSHD [2017] EWHC 3574 (Fam) both dealing with recognition of Nigerian adoption orders by the Courts in the UK
We are delighted that Onyoja Momoh has been listed as a Leading Junior for Children Law in the 2017 Legal 500. Full details of the listing can be found on her practice profile.
2 Stockwell gangsters who shot a man they robbed in the leg in 2016 and used the same gun in a turf war with rival drug-dealing gangsters were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years (after conviction in a trial prosecuted by Mark Eldridge) at Woolwich CC.
Sami Rahman is instructed in the matter of Carreras –v- United First Partners in the Court of Appeal dealing with important issues relating to constructive dismissals, PCP’s & reasonable adjustments.
We regularly provide in-house seminars to professional clients on a range of subjects within our core areas of Civil, Family and Crime. Please contact our clerks about any such requirements.
Our Personal Injury Law Group has recently been appointed to the approved panel of suppliers for the AA
Due to a significant surplus of work and a desire to expand, we are looking for high quality practitioners across all of our core areas of expertise: Civil, Crime and Family
5 Pump Court has 40 qualified Direct Public Access Barristers with expertise in the following areas of law: Employment & Discrimination, Family, Property & Landlord & Tenant, Business & Commercial, Construction, Professional Negligence & Liability, Crime, Personal Injury.
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Our Immigration Law Team of barristers have a broad range of experience in all areas of immigration law, including asylum, nationality and business immigration.
Within our team we have barristers who also sit as immigration judges on a part-time basis and others who were formally employed by the UK Home Office as an Asylum Case Owner and Presenting Officer. Barristers within our team are actively involved in the training of other barristers in immigration law.
We can act for clients via direct public access or in the traditional way through a solicitor. In either case we take a pride in providing expert advice and representation with a competitive fee structure. We often provide 30 or 60 minute fixed fee advice sessions at at short notice. Our barristers and clerks are renowned for their flexible and friendly approach. We can advise you in writing or in conference in our central London chambers, by phone, Skype or FaceTime etc.
Our immigration barristers have extensive experience in cases involving;
Asylum and human rights appeals
Bail applications
Business immigration
Deportation and administrative removal appeals
Domestic workers
EEA (European Economic Area) dependent’s cases
Family settlement
Judicial review cases (particularly for Kenyan, Ugandan, Burundi and Zimbabwean nationals)
Long residence
Points based migrants under Tier 1 and 2
Students under Tier 4
Unlawful detention damages claims
Visit visas
Work permits
We have barristers in our immigration team who are fluent if the following languages; Hindi, Punjabi, Urdhu, Yoruba, Greek and French. Additionally one of our barristers is dual qualified as a member of the Nigerian and English bar.
Our immigration group have appeared in the following courts and tribunals
First-Tier Tribunal
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Judicial Review cases in the Administrative Court
Court of Appeal
Recent cases include:
• Acting for the social services department of a London Borough in
expedited judicial review proceedings of the UK Border Agency’s refusal to
grant a visit visa to the mother of a trafficked child for the purpose of a
parenting assessment. The UKBA subsequently reversed its decision and following
the mother’s visit to the UK, the County Court sanctioned the return of the
child to her home country.
• Drafting grounds for judicial review and representing an Albanian national at
an oral permission hearing in the High Court where the UKBA had certified his
asylum claim as ‘clearly unfounded’, thereby denying him an in-country right of
appeal. The High Court granted permission, following which the UKBA withdrew
its certification, thereby allowing an appeal to proceed.
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