Immigration

Overview

Landmark Chambers has grown in recent years to being a leading immigration set. Its members work for the full spectrum of government departments, local government, public bodies, NGOs, charities and individuals on complex public law cases nationally and internationally. The combination of specialist immigration expertise and broader public and private law practices is a particular strength.

Landmark barristers have been involved in many of the leading immigration cases, including on the Refugee Convention, Human Rights Act, detention, trafficking, welfare and no recourse to public funds and the right to rent.

A (very small) taste of some of the members’ significant cases of the past few years include:

• Shamima Begum’s case in the Supreme Court against deprivation of citizenship
• Challenges to new asylum accommodation including airfields, hotels and the Bibby Stockholm Barge
• KV (Sri Lanka) v SSHD [2019] - proper approach to medical evidence of torture in asylum cases
• AAA and ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] – Supreme Court – Rwanda scheme incompatible with Refugee Convention and article 3 ECHR, and potentially procedurally unfair.
• AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 17 – serious suffering from a decline in health on removal risks breach of article 3
• No recourse to public funds” scheme and asylum support schemes breach article 3 (W [2020], ST and VW [2021], DMA and Others [2020], HA and Others [2023], R (PA and NA) v SSHD [2023] EWHC 2476 (Admin)
• Landmark has been involved in many of the leading cases on the right to liberty under article 5 and the common law: Lumba, Kambadzi, Abdi, Francis, Das, Antonio, DN (Rwanda) –and recently the Brook House Inquiry [2023]
• Article 8 ECHR: Kiarie and Byndloss [2017] (out of country appeals in breach of article 8)
• Articles 9 and 10 (freedom of religion and thought): Supreme Court challenge to protest buffer zones at abortion clinics - Re Abortion Services [2022]
• Article 14 Discrimination: JCWI [2020] (discrimination in right to rent); IJ (Kosovo) [2020] Shortage Occupation List unlawfully discriminatory.