Immigration: Asylum and Human Rights
Overview
Ella is regularly instructed in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal in relation to a range of immigration matters including asylum, deportation, bail, and deprivation of citizenship appeals. Her clients have included unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and victims of trafficking. She also welcomes instructions in unlawful detention claims.
Notable Cases
High Court orders release from immigration detention
R (on the application of CN) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] 10 WLUK 85
The High Court ordered that the Claimant be released from detention within seven days. Multiple grants of conditional bail by the First-tier Tribunal had not led to the Claimant’s release due to delays in the Defendant sourcing appropriate bail accommodation.
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Administrative and Public Law
Overview
Ella welcomes instructions in judicial review claims involving challenges to immigration detention, fresh claims, certification, removal, and decisions under the National Referral Mechanism.
Notable Cases
High Court orders release from immigration detention
R (on the application of CN) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] 10 WLUK 85
The High Court ordered that the Claimant be released from detention within seven days. Multiple grants of conditional bail by the First-tier Tribunal had not led to the Claimant’s release due to delays in the Defendant sourcing appropriate bail accommodation.
Court of Appeal provides guidance as to the approach that should be taken by the Competent Authority when determining whether an individual is a victim of trafficking
MN and IXU v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746
Stephanie Harrison QC, Gemma Loughran, and Ella Gunn were instructed by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP to represent the AIRE Centre who intervened alongside Anti-Slavery International in these appeals.
