Direct Public Access Immigration Barrister. Specialist in asylum, immigration and human rights law; social minorities & discrimination.
London
Joined November 2015
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Thank you very much to @eddiemair @LBC for highlighting what people are doing to help Ukrainian #Refugees
@maybulman @JCWI_UK @ein_website #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #RefugeesWelcome @BBCNews @YvetteCooperMP @natalieben @Care4Calais @ICRC @SholaMos1
'So far we've got lip service by the UK and real action by all 27 EU countries.'
Immigration barrister Jan Doerfel reflects on the UK's response to people fleeing Ukraine.
@eddiemair | @ChambersofJD
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📢Tomorrow at 3pm we will be questioning the Care & Mental Health Minister, the Director General for Adult Social Care, and the Chief Social Worker for Adults on protecting human rights in Care settings.
📰Read more about our Inquiry here: committees.parliament.uk/com…
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Excl: HO doubles time lone child refugees must wait to join family in UK as resources diverted to Ukraine
Service standard for family visas has been upped to 24 weeks
One Afghan boy alone in a camp now faces waiting another 4 months to join his brother
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Home Office charging bereaved partners £2,400 for leave to remain in UK theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Highlighting today for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek this Q & A with our brilliant @CharlotteBayati for @LexisNexisUK @LexisUK_Immig on duties of expert witness in Tribunal focusing on mental health after HA (Sri Lanka), with Charlotte pro bono for App. lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/news/…
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First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) issues a new practice statement ein.org.uk/news/new-practice… and a new practice direction ein.org.uk/news/senior-presi…. They replace all previous statements/directions.
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Man with severe learning disabilities faces being deported to Jamaica theguardian.com/politics/202…
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For those who missed it, over the weekend someone at the Home Office threatened to scrap the @IndependentCI because they had the temerity to commission an independent review of the recent Home Office country information report on Rwanda. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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MoJ denies new pilot scheme removes right to a trial
#RuleOfLaw lawgazette.co.uk/news/moj-de…
'Priti Patel has repeatedly overridden Home Office legal advice on immigration and #asylum cases, adding to record costs for the taxpayer..'
Lawyers doing their jobs are *not* the problem.
👇 clogs up courts for obstinacy (not the pursuit of justice)
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Excl: Ukrainian refugees may be housed in B&Bs indefinitely under new laws quietly passed
@Shelter accuses ministers of creating a ‘two-tier system’ that ‘strips away homeless rights’ of refugees
These changes seem pretty obviously discriminatory
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Powerful warning
"Government had missed many environmental targets, and funding for monitoring the environment had fallen in the last 10 years"
#biodiversity #stateofnature #ClimateEmergency
theguardian.com/environment/…
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The #RuleOfLaw should never be politicised or be made into a political mechanism for rubber stamping
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Pathetic, utterly pathetic. A PR stunt which does nothing but cause distress to vulnerable asylum seekers. "lefty lawyers"? That would be "lawyers". This isn't some culture wars bs. It is the law, and the need for everyone's legal rights to be recognised.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
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Why isn’t this wall-to-wall news?
Barclays Bank alerted our National Crime Agency to huge transactions to Johnson’s Tory party
They traced “a clear line” to a pro-Kremlin politician
And flagged suspected money laundering & an illegal campaign donation
nytimes.com/2022/05/12/world…
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An #IDAHOTB reminder:
Human rights don't change
because of who you love
or how you identify.
🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
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Millions are choosing between heating and eating because of the energy crisis.
Today with @StopCambo, we disrupted @KwasiKwarteng's business lunch to send a clear message.
We need a windfall tax, huge investment in energy efficiency and renewables, and no new oil and gas.
Show this thread
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ICYMI: this week we got great news in our trans healthcare legal challenge: we have permission to bring the case to court 🎉
Read our new blog for the latest 👇
glplive.org/trans-health-tw-…
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This is what underpins the libellous attempts to smear @BootstrapCook.
FIFTY times as many people use food banks today than when the Tories came to power in 2010.
That's an increase of 40k to 2 million people.
What a truly despicable track record.
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Why is the New York Times more engaged in uncovering the law-breaking of the UK Government than most of our media?
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The Conversatives would love you to believe that the shocking NHS waiting lists are all down to Covid
But the reality is that there was 4.4 million people on waiting lists in 2019 due to their underfunding of the NHS
Please RT if you think everyone should be clear about that
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