As most of you know, Renaissance Chambers has developed expertise in conducting Tamil asylum claims. The issues involved in these cases have been previously covered on Free Movement here and these include in ... Read more
Following the furore over immigration lawyers getting named and shamed in the High Court for their actual or alleged misdemeanours I thought it might be timely to arrange some training on urgent immigration ... Read more
The charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) asked me to speak at their AGM last night and I was delighted to accept. It was held at Amnesty International's Human Rights Action Centre in Shoreditch. I expected the ... Read more
Legal readers might be interested in two upcoming courses from HJT Training. The first is on the new changes to the Immigration Rules commencing 9 July 2012, delivered by the excellent Julian Bild (a valued ... Read more
As in previous years, a team from Renaissance Chambers is today undertaking the London Legal Walk and seeks sponsorship. We provide this blog free of charge but if you would like to support our cause we would be ... Read more
Just a quick alert that Nicola Braganza of Tooks Chambers and Colin Yeo of Renaissance Chambers are delivering training this Monday night (6 February) for HJT Training on the recently announced scrapping of paragraph ... Read more
Just a quick one to flag up that HJT Training is running a series of skills workshops with the excellent and inspiring Julian Bild as the trainer. Julian, formerly of RLC, Wilson and Co, Tyrer Roxburgh and IAS, has ... Read more
The previously mentioned Migration Museum Project '100 Images of Migration' competition deadline has been extended to 15 July 2011. I have been given permission to use the image to the side as an example of one of the ... Read more
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (shortly to become Freedom From Torture, is launching a very interesting sounding new report entitled Body of evidence: treatment of medico-legal reports for ... Read more
I've been asked to give a mention to the Migration Museum Project and am delighted to do so. I enjoyed my visit to the Museum of Immigration in Melbourne and the 19 Princelet Street project in Spitalfields is excellent ... Read more