Practice
Nadine is an experienced junior, who practises in the field of public law and civil liberties. She specialises in immigration and asylum and has a particular interest in cases involving the cross-over with family and childcare law, mental health issues and discrimination on the basis of sexuality. She has successfully obtained status for many women and children who have been the victims of criminal traffickers. Many of her cases have involved points of law arising from the European Convention on Human Rights and other international human rights treaties.
She also has a civil liberties practice, involving civil actions against the police, often for those who have protested against cruelty to animals or in relation to environmental issues, prisoners? rights, inquests and the representation of those convicted of capital offences in the Caribbean.
In addition, she undertakes childcare cases, usually where there are immigration law issues involved. She advises local authorities and guardians ad litem on steps to take to ensure that unaccompanied minors are able to resolve immigration difficulties.
Background
Nadine initially worked as a community worker in the voluntary sector, campaigning for better recreational facilities for children. She later moved into community development work and, whilst employed by the London Borough of Haringey in Tottenham, worked with the Broadwater Farm Youth Association and a number of local women's groups.
Nadine then became a policy analyst at the Greater London Council, where she worked on race, gender and policing issues. In the last months of the GLC she moved to the Police Monitoring Unit to work for a group of London boroughs for the next year and a half, producing a number of pamphlets and articles on the policing of the Irish Community.
After two years as a Women's Development Worker in the London Borough of Ealing, Nadine studied for a Diploma in Law and came to the Bar.
Notable Cases
Sepet v SSHD [2003] UKHL 15
The Queen on the application of Berhe CO/1619/2003
R v Special Adjudicator ex p T [2001] Imm AR 187
Peterkinv Chief Constable of Cheshire, Manchester County Court, 4; 6 October 1999, unreported (circumstances in which hunt protesters could be arrested for breach of the peace)
R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Zighem [1996] Imm AR 194 (the need for the SSHD to show that removing an illegal entrant in breach of Article 8 of the ECHR is in the public interest)
R v SSHD ex parte Laily Begum [1996] Imm AR 582 (DP2/93 and whether the rights of the child are paramount in illegal entry cases)
Societies
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (member of the Executive Committee), Lawyers for Liberty, Administrative Law Bar Association, Family Law Bar Association; and Inquest Lawyers Group.
Other activities
Nadine is on the executive of the ILPA. She is also the co-founder of a group which is planning to produce guidelines for the representation of children before the Immigration Appellate Authority. She represents ILPA on the Refugee Children's Consortium which is comprised of the major children's charities. She also represents ILPA on a Home Office working party concerned with immigration detention.
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