Barrister specialising in immigration and human rights; A (internment and legality of derogation from Article 5) HL; Ullah (extra territoriality) HL; Razgar (private life and mental health; proportionality review in appellate context) HL; Adan (civil war and refugee status); HL; AE (internal flight) HL pending; Bagdanavicius (risks from non-state actors) HL pending; Limbuela (destitution of asylum seekers) HL pending; A (admissibility of evidence from torture) HL pending; Davoodipanah (withdrawal of concessions) CA; E and R (error of fact as discrete public law wrong) CA; El-Ali (article 1D Refugee Convention) CA; Z (private life and sexuality); Osorio (obligation to determine refugee status) CA; Gardi (unit of analysis in refugee definition) CA; Robinson (internal flight) CA. Civil liberties; Nadarajah (detention) CA; G (Anisminic approach to superior court of record’s exercise of bail jurisdiction) CA; M (first successful internee appeal) CA; D (false imprisonment) CA; Q (destitution of asylum seekers) CA; Farrakhan (free speech) Court of Appeal; Chahal (No.2) (compensation for detention) CA; Waite ECHR (article 5(4)); Percy (justiciability of legality of Iraq war) Queen’s Bench Division: EU and free movement; Radiom and Shingara (64/221 articles 8 and 9) ECJ; Manjit Kaur (effective nationality) ECJ.

Called 1993; 2 Garden Court 1994-2000; Matrix Chambers 2000; editorial board of ILPA Journal; co-author with Nicholas Blake QC of ‘Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights’ (OUP 2003).

Urdu, Hindu, basic Punjabi, French.

Immigration Law Practitioners Association; Administrative Law Bar Association; executive committee member of ILPA for five years.

Exeter College, Oxford (1987-90).

Cricket, football, travel.