Kathryn Cronin

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Immigration, asylum, nationality and family law. Kathryn has considerable experience in cross-over areas where family or childcare cases involve associated issues on immigration status, or in immigration cases where there are family and childcare law and practice considerations. She regularly provides advice to parties, local authorities or guardians ad litem concerning the steps to be taken to resolve immigration problems whether for parents or for minors. She has been the representative for many persons trafficked for sexual or domestic labour purposes.

Background

Kathryn was an active member of Chambers from 1980 to 1989, and following varied legal experience in Australia, where she is admitted to practise, she returned to Chambers in June 2001.

In her first period at chambers from 1980 to 1989, Kathryn had an extensive practice in immigration, asylum and family matters. She was particularly involved in cases involving unaccompanied child refugees. She was the author of the handbook published by the Children's Legal Centre entitled: Children: Immigration and Nationality and advised them generally on immigration and nationality issues concerning children.

From 1989 to 1996 Kathryn was associate professor in law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where she lectured and published on immigration, refugee and human rights law, and on children?s law issues. From 1989 to 1996 she was also general counsel to the Australian parliamentary committee on immigration and advised the committee and parliament on legislative and policy matters associated with immigration and refugee law, including on the legislative arrangements for the domestic violence and gay partner concessions in the immigration rules.

From 1996 to 2001, Kathryn was commissioner and then deputy president of the Australian Law Reform Commission and principal author of their reports on children in the legal process and on the working practices of the Australian federal and family courts and merits review tribunals, including the immigration and refugee review tribunals.

Publications and teaching

Kathryn is the senior author of Butterworth's Australian Immigration Law Service and the author of the entry on immigration, citizenship and refugee law in Halsbury's Laws of Australia. She has extensive cross-jurisdictional experience in her areas of expertise and varied teaching experience including training for tribunal members, judges, immigration agents, lawyers and law students. She is the editor and a joint author of the 2004 editions of Atkin's Court Forms and the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents on immigration and nationality and is a joint author of the Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice 6th edition. She has published extensively on immigration, refugee, human and children's rights issues.

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