Howells LLP

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Howells has a dedicated team of specialists dealing with all matters appertaining to immigration, asylum and nationality law led by Nadeem Ahmed. The firm has one of the few remaining Legal Services Commission franchised immigration teams in the North East of England and has particular specialism in higher court work focusing on judicial review and appeals to the Court of Appeal.

 Nadeem Ahmed has acted in a large number of cases, recent examples of which are as follows:

• R (on the application of Z) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 3050. The High Court stated that in a decision letter rejecting a Chinese national's latest submissions on the grounds that they were not a fresh claim for asylum or a human rights application, the secretary of state's failure to address a relevant topic with sufficient clarity, and his failure to refer to particular case law, afforded no confidence that he had applied his mind with the scrutiny required, and the decision would be quashed and remitted for proper consideration.
   
• Judicial Review case successfully settled whereby the Secretary of State for the Home Department has agreed by way of consent to reconsider the claimant’s claim further, despite the claimant himself failing to submit the documentary evidence previously when requested by the Secretary of State.
   
• Judicial Review case successfully settled whereby the Secretary of State for the Home Department has agreed by way of consent to reconsider the claimant’s fresh asylum and human rights claim under paragraph 353 of the immigration rules.
   
• A court of appeal case successfully settled whereby the Secretary of State for the Home Department has agreed by way of consent to remit the Appellant’s appeal to the AIT for another reconsideration.
   
• Currently acting in a Judicial Review case on the grounds that the Secretary of State is failing to treat an applicants fresh claim in accordance with paragraph 353 of the immigration rules.
   
• Currently acting in a Judicial Review has been issued following the refusal of the Secretary of State for refusing to naturalise an applicant as British citizen on the grounds that the applicant does not meet the requirement of good character. The Secretary of State is failing to give reasons but instead states “it would pose a risk to damage to national security to give reasons in this case.”
   
• Currently acting in a Judicial Review case on the grounds that the secretary of state is disputing the authenticity of an applicants indefinite leave to remain stamp in his passport but failing to give reasons for her assertion due to security reasons.

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