Author: Helen Foot

Helen Foot

Helen Foot

Helen is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers practising in public law, asylum, immigration and human rights. She has expertise in asylum claims involving LGBT rights, domestic violence and gender-specific persecution.

Where an application for leave to remain is made before 9 July 2012 but decided after that date, which Immigration Rules should apply to it? The answer, according to Court of Appeal in Singh v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 74, is the ‘old’ Rules,...

23rd February 2015
BY Helen Foot

In welcome news for LGBT asylum claimants, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled this week that ‘tests’ to prove a claimant’s sexual orientation, or intimate questioning about sexual behaviour, may breach the rights to human dignity and respect for private life contained in Articles 1 and 7 of...

4th December 2014
BY Helen Foot
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