by Paul Turner | May 29, 2017 | Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, News, Paul Turner, The Immigration Barrister
For a while now the direct access immigration barrister has been providing a boutique service to a select few in offering second passports, residency to nationals of countries where the political situation is unstable or the government is hostile, has a poor human...
by Paul Turner | May 29, 2017 | Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review, News, Paul Turner, The Immigration Barrister
An excellent result for the direct access immigration barrister, even though this case was through the excellent Zahab Jamali from Lawlane solicitors. In this case, the last of an amazing week, I was approached at the last minute with a request to get removal...
by Paul Turner | May 29, 2017 | Advice, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review, News, Paul Turner, The Immigration Barrister
The last week, which turned out to be a three day working week, was one of the most exciting, enjoyable and evocative weeks that I have had as a direct access immigration barrister, practising in London and England and Wales. I am proposing to write a series of...
by Paul Turner | Apr 7, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Judicial Review, News, Paul Turner, The Immigration Barrister
As a direct access immigration barrister who has been practising in this field on both sides since 1999 there is nothing more rewarding than the Court allowing an appeal outright, i.e. no more appeals or hearings, in Court. This is what happened yesterday, in a case...
by Paul Turner | Apr 7, 2017 | Advice, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Judicial Review, News
As a direct access immigration barrister based and practising in London and England and Wales I have had a lot of clients recently come to me who have been refused on the basis of discrepancies in their tax returns / HO declared fees. These are very hard cases to win...
by Paul Turner | Apr 2, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Injunctions, News, Paul Turner
As a direct access immigration barrister I have noticed that it is the Supreme Court who have been producing decisions of late that have been in the Applicant’s favour, a few have been Mandalia – Evidential Flexibility Policy does exist. Paul Turner is an...
by Paul Turner | Apr 2, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review, Paul Turner
As a direct access immigration barrister I had an extremely positive result recently. I had a client who was a genuine Christian convert, I say genuine as there was no doubt given the wealth of evidence and the Secretary of State’s continued rejection of his...
by Paul Turner | Apr 2, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review, News, Paul Turner
As a direct access immigration barrister I am often called upon to carry out last minute injunctions. Usually when I am on holiday for some strange reason, though this does not stop me from doing the injunction, indeed I have made them from mountain tops in...
by Paul Turner | Apr 2, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review
As a direct access immigration barrister it is rare to see cases that are pre the Human Rights Act 1998 and its coming into force on 2 October 2000. However, my training, in part under the excellent David Palmer, made it quite clear when considering a case always look...
by Paul Turner | Apr 2, 2017 | Advice, Appeals, Direct Access Immigration Barrister, Immigration, Immigration Barrister, Injunctions, Judicial Review
As a direct access barrister practising in immigration in London and England and Wales this particular case troubled me greatly. The facts of the case were compelling. The client had been abandoned by her previous solicitors notwithstanding that she lived in Wales and...
