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Garden Court Chambers | Friday 31 May 2024

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Protest Rights, British Citizenship and Naturalisation, Immigration: Personal and Business | Friday 22 October 2021

Garden Court Chambers welcomes Eva Doerr as a new tenant

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 Doerr

Children Law, British Citizenship and Naturalisation, Settlement (Indefinite Leave to Remain) | Thursday 21 October 2021

Garden Court secures number one rankings in Chambers UK Bar Guide 2022

Garden Court Chambers is recognised once again in Band 1 of Chambers & Partners for community care law, protest law, immigration law and social housing law.  We are ranked as a leading set in crime, inquests and public inquiries, police law, Court of Protection, Administrative & Public Law and Family: Children law. We are delighted […]

International Human Rights, Garden Court International, Migration and Asylum Law | Monday 10 May 2021

Maria Moodie co-drafted GREVIO’s mid-term report that launched today, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Istanbul Convention

Maria Moodie of Garden Court Chambers co-drafted the report, 'Mid-term Horizontal Review of Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) baseline evaluation reports'

Maria Moodie

Immigration Law, Migration and Asylum Law, International Human Rights | Monday 9 November 2020

The Asylum Research Centre publishes its major report yielding interesting results on the reliability of reports produced by the Trump administration

The Asylum Research Centre publishes its major ‘Comparative Analysis of U.S Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (2016-2019)’. Garden Court Chambers’ legal researcher, David Neale, is its board member.

Immigration Law, Migration and Asylum Law | Monday 12 October 2020

GREVIO publishes evaluation report on Belgium implementation of Istanbul Convention

Maria Moodie of Garden Court Chambers advised upon and drafted Chapter VII of the Belgium report in relation to protections available for migrant women and asylum seekers who have experienced or are at risk of gender based violence.

Maria Moodie

Migration and Asylum Law, Immigration Law | Monday 5 October 2020

Strengthening protection for migrant women – Council of Europe Drafting Committee

Louise Hooper was appointed expert to the committee in June 2020 and compiled and presented a needs assessment.

Louise Hooper

Immigration Law, Migration and Asylum Law | Thursday 16 April 2020

Albanian blood feuds: an update

This update is written by David Neale, legal researcher and former barrister at Garden Court Chambers.

Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration Law, Migration and Asylum Law | Thursday 7 February 2019

Major reforms to immigration detention decision-making proposed in report of the Joint Human Rights Committee

Following a wide-ranging inquiry into the use of immigration detention by the Home Office, the report of the Joint Human Rights Committee of both Houses of Parliament is now available.

International Human Rights, Migration and Asylum Law, Public International Law | Friday 13 October 2017

Louise Hooper to deliver training at event co-organised by UNHCR and Council of Europe in Madrid on 16 October

Louise Hooper will be delivering the training in her capacity as Council of Europe expert on migration and gender.

Louise Hooper

Administrative and Public Law, Criminal Appeals, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Friday 16 June 2017

Garden Court Chambers extends condolences and solidarity to all those affected by Grenfell Tower tragedy

Garden Court Chambers is horrified by the fire at Grenfell Towers. We extend our condolences and our solidarity to all those bereaved, injured or rendered homeless.

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