Portuguese young people file ground-breaking climate case with European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries
Thursday 3 Sep 2020
…complaint alleges that the governments being sued are categorically failing to enact the deep and urgent emissions cuts required to safeguard the futures of the youth-applicants. Their lawyers cite the…
Garden Court welcomes David Neale to its Immigration Team
Monday 5 Sep 2016
As well as practising in all areas of immigration and asylum law, David has experience of human rights cases, deportation cases and EEA appeals. He regularly takes on pro bono…
High Court’s inherent jurisdiction for the protection of vulnerable adults (Southend-on-Sea Borough Council v Meyers)
Wednesday 20 Mar 2019
…Protection, community care and social housing law. She has appeared in a number of reported cases in these areas and frequently speaks at seminars and writes on recent legal developments. …
The Road Ahead: A response to “Travelling to a Better Future”
Wednesday 21 Mar 2012
…the vulnerability and exclusion of Gypsies and Travellers and the key policy areas that must be addressed to combat that vulnerability and exclusion. The report’s authors go on to make…
Garden Court Crime and Immigration Teams combine to achieve quashing of convictions for victims of human trafficking
Monday 25 Oct 2010
…member of the Immigration Team. The result demonstrates the benefits that Garden Court Chambers as a multi-disciplinary set are able to bring to complex cases involving multiple areas of law….
2011 05 Health Care
Wednesday 1 Jun 2011
…as failing to meet the essential standards required by law; Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. Less serious concerns were…
Inherent jurisdiction for vulnerable adults does not include power of arrest
Tuesday 4 Oct 2016
…but she had capacity to make decisions. FD was declared to have capacity in the relevant areas. Citing Re G (Wardship) (Jurisdiction: Power of Arrest) [1983] 4 FLR 538, in…
Maya Sikand representing Peter Francis in the Pitchford Inquiry into undercover policing
Wednesday 20 Jan 2016
…Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry and the Azelle Rodney Inquiry, and have expertise across the areas of inquests, inquiries and civil actions against the police and other public…
Smita Shah was invited by UNICEF UK to sit on the Advisory Board to study into the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in other countries
Monday 10 Dec 2012
Smita Shah was invited by UNICEF UK to sit on the Advisory Board I January 2012 to advise on the criteria for and areas of research and how mechanisms identified…
Shereener Browne returns to Garden Court Chambers
Wednesday 21 Apr 2010
Garden Court is delighted to welcome Shereener Browne back to Chambers after maternity leave. Shereener joins the Employment team, returning to the same work in employment and discrimination law that…








