About the blog

The Free Movement team

The Free Movement team is based at Renaissance Chambers in London. Renaissance Chambers is ranked as a Leading Set in immigration law in the Chambers and Partners Guide 2013 with growing stature in the immigration field and known for its human rights expertise, “especially when considering difficult cases.” If you would like to instruct the specialist immigration barristers behind the blog please contact the clerking team at Renaissance Chambers on 020 7404 1111 or by email or for public access cases without a solicitor go to our public access website, Renaissance Chambers Direct.

Contributors to the blog include:

Colin Yeo (editor)

Frances Allen

Julia Gasparro

Shivani Jegarajah

Iain Palmer

Nishan Paramjorthy

Claire Physsas

Sarah Pinder

Sanaz Saifolahi

Kezia Tobin

Pearl Yong

Some barristers in the Renaissance Chambers immigration team can be instructed directly by members of the public under the Bar Council’s public access scheme. Download the Bar Council’s guide to the public access scheme here if you would like to know more about how the scheme works.

The blog

The main purposes of the Free Movement blog are to help the editor and other contributors think through new developments and also to provide updates, pointers and links for the benefit of other immigration lawyers and for migrants researching their own position.

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Guest posts

The Free Movement blog does publish guest posts from time to time. If you are interested in submitting a post for publication please email the editor. You may also be interested to read the blog’s contributor guidelines.

Reproduction of Free Movement content

By choosing to publish on the blog authors transfer non exclusive copyright to the blog for the purposes of syndication and re-publication. Anyone may make use of Free Movement content for non commercial purposes providing the source is acknowledged and a link to the blog included. If you would like to make use of blog content for commercial purposes, please email the editor.

Take-down policy

If you object to material posted on the blog, please leave a comment or email the editor. Any assertion of copyright will lead to immediate withdrawal of the relevant item. Opinion or comment will not be so readily withdrawn but will certainly be reconsidered.