Peter Jorro

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Peter Jorro joined Chambers in 2000 after having been at the Refugee Legal Centre (RLC) and working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has specialised in asylum law but also has wide experience in other areas of immigration law. He has presented many cases before the Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court and the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (and its predecessor bodies).

He has conducted several courses on asylum and immigration law related issues for the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA), Chambers' immigration team on behalf of the Legal Services Commission, Justice, Refugee Community Groups, the Asylum Caseworker Training Project, HJT Training and the RLC's external training service.

Notable Cases

• Secretary of State for the Home Departmentv Akaeke [2005] EWCA Civ 947, [2005] Imm AR 701(on administrative delay by the Home Office rendering a decision to remove a person from the UK a disproportionate interference in her right to respect for her family life in the UK);
• Jin Tao He v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] EWCA Civ 1150, [2002] Imm AR 590 (Chinese religious sect member fearing persecution);
• AK and others (Tribunal Appeal - out of time) Bulgaria (starred) [2004] UKIAT 00201, [2004] Imm AR 486; Horvath [1999] INLR 7 (IAT) (sufficiency of state protection and need for objective evidence to be taken proper account of);
• Yousfi [1998] INLR 136; Mario [1998] INLR 306; Mustafaraj [1994] Imm AR 78; Laftaly [1993] Imm AR 284 (the right on an appeal to challenge refusal of asylum as a refugee where exceptional leave granted).

He also successfully co-represented the Afghan hijackers before the immigration appellate authority.

Other activities

Both while at the RLC and since joining Chambers, Peter has frequently put the case on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees on television and radio.

Publications

Peter is the co-author of Asylum Law and Practice (Butterworths, 2003) and is responsible for the asylum and refugees chapter of (Jackson's) Immigration Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell, loose-leaf). He is also a contributor to Macdonald's Immigration Law & Practice (Butterworths, 6th edn. 2005) and Halsbury's Laws of England (Vol. 4(2) in relation to British Nationality, Immigration and Asylum) and has produced some All ER legal opinions and several papers on issues relating to asylum law and immigration appeals. He was, while at the RLC, a Consulting Editor of the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports.

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