Gita Patel
Year of call/admission: 1988
Email: maria@kenworthysbarristers.co.uk
Experience:
Previously practising in Family and Criminal Law, Gita Patel has specialised in Immigration and Asylum Law since 2000.
Gita is a member of ILPA and speaks Gujarati and understands Urdu.
Chambers & Partners:
"Gita Patel has appeared before all manner of tribunals and in the Court of Appeal on immigration matters. Her clients have emanated from all over the world, including places as far flung as China, Iran, Sri Lanka and the Lebanon. She has particular experience of representing vulnerable appellants such as children and those with mental health issues" Chambers & Partners 2012 placing the Immigration Team in the top rank for Northern sets.
Gita has specialised exclusively in Immigration and Asylum Law, coincident with the advent of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the dispersal of asylum seekers to the northwest by NASS.
She practises in all aspects of this work and appears before Immigration Judges, Designated Immigration Judges and Senior Immigration Judges in single and panel hearings both in First Tier and Upper Tribunal.
Gita has also appeared before the Court of Appeal and Administrative Court in asylum and immigration matters.
In asylum cases she has dealt with Appellants from Afganistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Cameroon, DRC, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Palestinian Occupied Territories and Togo.
She has particular experience in representing vulnerable Appellants, particularly minors, the elderly, females and those with mental health issues.
Gita undertakes advisory work on immigration and judicial review matters in line with Chambers' quick turnaround policy and will consider pro bono work on its merits.
Court of Appeal: TH Burma v SSHD [2011] EWCA Civ 1521
Jabang (R on application of) v SSHD [2011] EWHC 2478
Ping on 3 Ltd v SSHD [2011] EWHC 2196
Court of Appeal: MF Sri Lanka v SSHD [2011] EWCA Civ 915
EP & Another (R on Application of) v SSHD [2010] EWHC 2189
Ahmed (R on Application of) v SSHD [2010] EWHC 2779
R (on the application of DE) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2300 (Admin)
Umar (R on Application of) v SSHD [2009] EWHC 2779
Essomba (R on Application of) v SSHD [2009] EWHC 2300
Court of Appeal: AK Bangladesh v SSHD [2009] Civ 1586
Court of Appeal: XZ China v SSHD [2008] EWCA Civ 342
Court of Appeal: Ishtiaq v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 386
Court of Appeal: II (Pakistan) [2006] EWCA Civ 1413. Court of Appeal
SV (Iran) [2005] UKIAT 00160 (Asylum and Immigration Tribunal)
Gita lectures as part of the Immigration Team and has covered such topics as:
Family and private life under Article 8
Challenging decisions of the AIT
The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
The Refugee Qualification Directive
The Statement of Changes under the Immigration Rules
Immigration, detention and deportation - the current state of play