Free Webinar – Immigration Detention Update: 2024 in Review

This webinar reviewed the key developments in the law of immigration detention in 2024, covering legislation, policy and case law. The panel also looked forward to 2025, scanning the horizon for potential challenges.

Garden Court’s Immigration Team is recognised as the pre-eminent set of barristers in the UK specialising in immigration law. We have been awarded the highest ‘Band 1’ status for immigration law by the independent Chambers Bar Guide rankings and we are ranked in ‘Tier 1’ in the Legal 500 UK Bar rankings. We are the only ‘Tier 1’ ranked chambers in immigration law.

Garden Court is also recognised as one of the leading chambers in the UK specialising in civil liberties and human rights. We are highly ranked in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for our expertise in this area of law and we have a large number of individual barrister rankings, including Band 1 rankings.

Speakers
Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC, Garden Court Chambers
Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC is a barrister specialising in human rights, asylum and immigration, civil and public law. He is ranked in the Chambers UK Bar Guide 2025 and the Legal 500 2025 for immigration. Greg is highly experienced in immigration detention work and has represented detainees in detention claims at every level from the Administrative Court to the Supreme Court, as well as in civil actions for false imprisonment both in the County Court and the Queen’s Bench Division. He has contributed to several of the leading practitioners’ texts on the subject of immigration detention and is a LexisNexis Panel expert on false imprisonment.

David Sellwood, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
David specialises in immigration, asylum, nationality, and human rights law. He acts in public and private law proceedings in courts and tribunals at all levels, including SIAC and the Supreme Court. His expertise includes complex immigration, asylum, deportation, and citizenship deprivation proceedings, as well as judicial reviews and claims challenging unlawful immigration detention. David is co-convenor of Garden Court’s Immigration Team and ranked in Chambers and Partners, UK Bar (Immigration). He is regularly instructed in unlawful detention and false imprisonment claims in the Administrative and County Courts.

Eva Doerr, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Eva specialises in all areas of public and human rights law, with a focus on immigration and asylum law and challenges based on the Equality Act. Eva is a specialist in all areas of immigration law including family, asylum, deportation, detention, nationality and trafficking. She has experience in and a particular interest in complex Judicial Review challenges. Eva regularly appears before immigration tribunals and the Administrative Court and has particular expertise in retained EU law post-Brexit and refugee family reunions in Europe. She has also drafted Practice Notes on the EU Settlement Scheme for Lexis Nexis and Thompson Reuters Practical Law.

Georgie Rea, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Georgie is developing a broad public law practice, whilst specialising in immigration & asylum, housing, education, and community care law. She has successfully represented lay clients in statutory appeals before the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals and drafted Grounds of Appeal in complex cases. Georgie has experience in a wide range of immigration law matters, including complex asylum, deportation, human rights appeals, public law challenges to fresh claim decisions, and more novel challenges to the passport office.

Abby Buttle, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Abby is building a broad human rights, public law and civil liberties practice, specialising in immigration, education and community care. She regularly acts in statutory appeals and bail applications in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum). During her pupillage, Abby worked under the supervision of Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC on several complex immigration detention claims and now seeks to build a practice in this area.