Navtej Singh Ahluwalia
Navi is a practicing barrister at Garden Court Chambers specializing in public law, EU law and immigration and asylum law with over 12 years of experience in these areas. He is the former Assistant Director of Advice on Individual Rights in Europe, the AIRE Centre and former Head of International Legal Affairs at the Sikh Human Rights Group. He regularly teaches at seminars organized by the Council of Europe, UNHCR and non-governmental organizations for the judiciary and for civil society throughout central and eastern Europe.
Julian Bild
Julian has been practising in immigration and asylum law since qualifying as a solicitor in 1997. Until recently, he workerd at the Immigration Advisory Service, with responsibility for training and for supervising a team of the IAS's senior lawyers. He is an experience trainer. He has also had conduct of many reported cases, including Country Guidance cases before the Tribunal and leading cases up to the Supreme Court and in Europe.
Tony Gomez
Tony has a long experience in advising and assisting appelants in asylum and immigration matters. He began his career in 1979 at Bristol Resource Centre (now Bristol Law Centre) as an immigration advisor and went on to appear at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. He is currently working at Genesis Law Associates in Birmingham.
Adrian Berry
Adrian is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. He practices in British nationality, EC law, immigration law, asylum support law, social security law, housing and community care. He has written articles and contributed chapters to books on various aspects of these subjects. Adrian is a contributor to the JCWI Handbook, the accompanying electronic updates as well as Macdonald’s Immigration Law and Practice and the Blackstone's Guide to the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 among other publications. He has provided legal training to advisors and lawyers for a number of years and teaches international migration law to LLM students.
Azhar Chohan
Azhar is an experienced immigration caseworker and a supervisor. He has worked at four different law centres in the past 18 years and also worked as a locum for the IAS in Birmingham as a counsellor dealing with appeals. He now mainly works as an appeal advocate in private practice. He has delivered training to community organisations, CABs and ILPA on immigration and nationality law. He has extensive experience of preparing and presenting immigration cases before immigration judges at FTT ( IAC). He has been a panel member at UK Visas and a member of ILPA Family Sub-Committee. He is also a part tiem Parliamentary Researcher for an MP.
Nicky Dean
Nicky qualified as a solicitor in 1997 specialising in Criminal defence work. She has practised exclusively in Immigration law since 2001 to 2008 at the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Manchester, in publicly funded work advising and assisting in Asylum and Human Rights work, Immigration, European and Nationality law. Nicky now works at Slater Heelis Solicitors in Cheshire doing work primarily around the Points Based System, non PBS Immigration work, European and Nationality Law. As well as conducting her own casework and appeals, she has delivered training locally to other practitioners in the North of England. Jonathan Kingham
Jonathan is a solicitor at Kingsley Napley LLP Solicitors Firm and advises on the full range of business and personal immigration matters, including complex applications and appeals. Jonathan acts for a range of corporates in the financial and professional sectors, and high net worth individuals, often in the entertainment industry. Over the last year he has delivered training courses to ILPA on EU law and the JCWI on Working under the PBS.Before joining Kingsley Napley LLP, Jonathan trained and practised at Bates, Wells and Braithwaite, where he had a mixed caseload of legal aid work – including asylum and human rights cases – and private immigration work for companies and individuals. He has also worked in legal publishing, as an Assistant Commissioning Editor for Oxford University Press, where he worked on a number of immigration titles including Phelan & Gillespie's Immigration Law Handbook. Kate Lewis
Kate became involved with immigration and asylum law as a volunteer at JCWI in 1995. Since then she has worked in private practice and the voluntary sector. She was called to the Bar in 2003. She was a member of JCWI staff for around five years. During that time she was involved in and specialised in challenges to provision of support to people subject to immigration control, in particular as a result of the changes brought about by section 54 and 55 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Kate transferred to become a solicitor and was admitted in August 2006. She has worked for 3 years in the Solicitors Unit at IAS undertaking predominantly Judicial Review and Court of Appeal work.
Khadija Umbarin Rahman
Khadija has practised in immigration and human rights law since 2001. Currently a tenant at No.3 Fleet Street, Khadija has previously worked for the Immigration Advisory Service. Within the OISC sector, Khadija has supervised and trained Caseworkers as an in-house employed barrister. As a part of her LLM, Umbarin studied Comparative Immigration and Nationality Law. She has designed the undergraduate Refugee Law option module at Birkbeck College, University of London, and presently delivers this course as a Sessional Lecturer. Andrew Tingley
Andrew joined Kingsley Napley LLP Solicitors Firm in January 2009 and advises on the full range of business and personal immigration matters, including complex individual applications and appeals. He was called to the Bar in October 2006 and is currently cross-qualifying as a Solicitor. He has been a member of ILPA's Executive Committee and has delivered training courses to ILPA and other organisations on the Points Based System. Rimmy Bedi
Rimmy works at Mulberry Finch Solicitors firm specialising in Tier 2 and Tier 4 Sponsor Licence appliccations. Prior to that Rimmy specialised in corporate immigration and worked with Ernst & Young 's global business immigration services. She has worked in the field of immigration since 1998 and throughout her working experience Rimmy has covered a broad spectrum of immigration work inlcuding asylum/human rights, students, marriage, EEA, settlement and citizenship. Rimmy has been actively involved with audits with the UKBA and has advised clients on Judicial Reviews. She has worked at the Law Society and Bar Standards Board in relation to immigration practices.
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
GMIAU has been in existence since 1989 and specialises in providing expert advice and legal representation on all issues of immigration, nationality and asylum. GMIAU is a non-profit making organisation and provides a non-fee paying service.
Registered Charity Number: 1117513
es are in GBP.
