Legal challenges

The session covers how to challenge negative NRM decisions by making reconsideration requests

It will also provide an overview of challenging decisions through the appeals process and judicial review.

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About the trainers:

  • Claire Physsas

    Claire is a barrister practising in public law, immigration, asylum and modern slavery at One Pump Court Chambers. She is highly experienced in representing asylum-seekers and victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. She has been involved in a number of test cases and obtained positive outcomes for her clients. Claire is committed to representing vulnerable clients and often acts in cases involving individuals with mental health issues and children.

    She advises on accommodation and support issues on behalf of immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees and victims of trafficking, including children. She provides expert immigration advice in cases involving victims of trafficking before the Family Courts. Claire is currently ranked in Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in Immigration and has been ‘Recommended for trafficking cases’. She works for ATLEU as a training consultant, having joined in November 2022, and provides training on the legal rights and entitlements of victims of trafficking.

    Profile: https://www.onepumpcourt.co.uk/barrister/claire-physsas/

  • Lindsay Cundall

    Lindsay is a supervising solicitor specialising in immigration and public law, based in Sheffield. Lindsay joined ATLEU in 2020 as ATLEU’s Training Lead and in 2023 she took up the role of Strategic Litigation Lawyer which she does alongside leading ATLEU’s housing and public law team. Lindsay has qualified as a solicitor in 2010 with Wilson Solicitors LLP, prior to which she had worked at Refugee and Migrant Justice, Brighton Housing Trust and the UNHCR, Ecuador.

    Lindsay has extensive experience of preparing immigration applications and appeals at all levels as well as a variety of claims against public bodies and complex Judicial Review applications, particularly on behalf of those who are detained in immigration removal centres or prisons (in non-criminal matters). Her notable cases include The Anti Trafficking Labour Exploitation Unit & Anor v The Secretary of State for Justice [2022] EWHC 1962 (Admin) (26 July 2022), a judicial review brought by ATLEU as the Claimant, which prompted the introduction of new guidance for UK prisons on supporting survivors.

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  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

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  • Standard: £75 + booking fee

    MSVCC providers, large charities & legal aid firms: £50 + booking fee

    Small charities & non profit organisations: £25 + booking fee