Our Eritrean client finally granted refugee status. Arrived as a child in 1997 & suffered homelessness & destitution due to previous refusal. Instructed in 2019 in JR to compel #HomeOffice to decide further reps pending for 4.5 years. Jamie Bell & @ElleWilkinsDL inst Taimour Lay

High Court granted urgent interim relief on Sunday, ordering Home Office to support Syrian asylum-seeker who has been street homeless in Derby during Covid-19 emergency. The Claimant is now in accommodation. Our Taimour Lay was instructed by Bhatia Best Solicitors.

Un podcast sur la chute dramatique de Kingstonian au début du millénaire (en Anglais) #Retro #AllezKs

"Outside, down a slope, the stadium stands empty, 12,000 blue and red seats, no cover, a renovated Soviet-era tribune and a large electronic scoreboard." Taimour Lay on what Spartak Nalchik says about one of Russia's minorities. theblizzard.co.uk/article/bread-…

WORLD EXCLUSIVE – The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya. Two-part, months-long investigation by Namir Shabibi (Namir Shabibi) dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…

...Helen Foot (@foothelen), Gemma Lock, Emma Fitzsimons, Taimour Lay, David Sellwood, Miranda Butler and Ubah Dirie. Copies can be purchased here from the LexisNexis Legal & Professional website: bit.ly/3zRj8X4

The UK border is a hostile environment for #Africans , designed to make stays as short as possible, says Taimour Lay theafricareport.com/110006/uk-bord…

The late Ian Macdonald QC: "[They] refused to play the role of 'victim' and rely on the so-called 'expertise' of the lawyer. Once you recognise the client as a self-assertive human being, everything in the court has to change ... and you participate in a bold new experience."

Reframing Article 3 ECHR. The Modified N test of “intense suffering or a significant reduction in life expectancy” to be used for evaluating material deprivation. Our Ronan Toal and Taimour Lay represent the Appellant.

Whatever your views on the Qatar World Cup, Tameem Barghouti's poem at the closing ceremony found the heart of things and spoke for many... 🇵🇸youtube.com/watch?v=Cqgl3Q… (Apologies to Tamim Al-Barghouti for the translation)

⬇ “High hurdle” for hotel accommodation challenges? - Read the latest Free Movement blog by Taimour Lay (Taimour Lay) of the Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team. bit.ly/3M1Nsqm

NEW - British minister in #Gabon ‘did not see coup coming’ Exclusive: A British professor serving in the cabinet of Gabon’s autocratic government talks to us about the military takeover. By Taimour Lay and Phil Miller declassifieduk.org/british-minist…

We have now lost contact with my Dad. He and the 1.1 million people in the most densely populated part of Gaza have been ordered to move South. There is nowhere to go. The bombardment continues. I have never felt so isolated from my human rights and legal colleagues. 1/2

Signed. lawyersletter.uk