Gita Patel
Name: Gita Patel
Year of call: 1988
Practice Areas: Asylum & Immigration / Judicial Review / Human Rights
Email: maria@kenworthysbarristers.co.uk
Year of call: 1988
Practice Areas: Asylum & Immigration / Judicial Review / Human Rights
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 speaks Gujarati and understands Urdu.
Previously practising in Family and Criminal Law, Gita Patel has specialised in Immigration and Asylum Law since 2000.
Gita speaks Gujarati and understands Urdu.
Immigration practice:
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.
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, 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.
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.
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, 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.
Cases:
R (on the application of DE) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2300 (Admin)
Court of Appeal: II (Pakistan) [2006] EWCA Civ 1413. Court of Appeal
SV (Iran) [2005] UKIAT 00160 (Asylum and Immigration Tribunal)
R v Rafiq Mustafa EWHC 2136 (Administrative Court)
A (Iraq) [2003] UKIAT 00022 (Immigration Appeal Tribunal)
Caroline Ngwabi [2002] UKIAT 06243
Mir Mahmud Sadre Musari [2002] UKIAT 01932
Kadrie Matoshi, Hysen Matoshi [2002] UKIAT 01175
Roger Abi El Hesn [2002] UKIAT 00698
R (on the application of DE) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2300 (Admin)
Court of Appeal: II (Pakistan) [2006] EWCA Civ 1413. Court of Appeal
SV (Iran) [2005] UKIAT 00160 (Asylum and Immigration Tribunal)
R v Rafiq Mustafa EWHC 2136 (Administrative Court)
A (Iraq) [2003] UKIAT 00022 (Immigration Appeal Tribunal)
Caroline Ngwabi [2002] UKIAT 06243
Mir Mahmud Sadre Musari [2002] UKIAT 01932
Kadrie Matoshi, Hysen Matoshi [2002] UKIAT 01175
Roger Abi El Hesn [2002] UKIAT 00698
Lecture experience:
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 new 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
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 new 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
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