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By Andrea Shieber | 15 December 2021

Students at the Law Clinic have been involved in a wide range of cases and activities including our evening advice sessions, casework discussion groups in … Read more

Law Clinic refugee family reunion success

By Andrea Shieber | 10 December 2021

Finally on 7 December, after 18 months of waiting, anxiety, hardship and fear, Clinic client SK and his mother were at Heathrow to welcome his … Read more

Rest stop for Little Amal at Kent Law Clinic

By Andrea Shieber | 21 October 2021

Little Amal paused for a rest at Kent Law Clinc today, during her visit to the Canterbury campus. Little Amal, a 3.5m tall puppet of … Read more

Overcoming the challenges of Covid and lockdowns

By Andrea Shieber | 29 September 2021

When the doors to the Law Clinic slammed shut in April 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Clinic team had to draw … Read more

Cummings v London United Busways [2021]

By Andrea Shieber | 16 August 2021

The Kent Law Clinic secured victory in an employment claim for constructive Unfair Dismissal and Disability Discrimination. The Employment Tribunal unanimously held that the Kent … Read more

Kent Law Clinic lends legal expertise to Whitstable foreshore public inquiry: a report from the front line

By Andrea Shieber | 10 August 2021

Kent Law Clinic has leant its legal expertise to Whitstable Beach Campaign (WBC) during a nine-day public inquiry into the fate of a controversial oyster … Read more

Expert Comment: Growing asylum queues – blaming criminal gangs is just a distraction

By Andrea Shieber | 02 July 2021

A new report from The Refugee Council has highlighted that although the numbers claiming asylum in the UK each year are lower than in previous … Read more

Kent Law Clinic academics respond to Home Office consultation on ‘New Plan for Immigration’

By Andrea Shieber | 05 May 2021

Kent Law Clinic Solicitor Sheona York and Immigration Caseworker Richard Warren, have responded to a Home Office open consultation on the ‘New Plan for Immigration’ … Read more

Expert comment: Important information about UK Immigration Rules is “hidden away” online

By Andrea Shieber | 04 May 2021

It was good to see The Guardian consumer affairs journalist Anna Tims addressing misleading information provided to immigration applicants, however, her reply does not get … Read more

Expert comment: Worn-out and failed ideas won’t mend Britain’s ‘broken’ asylum system

By Andrea Shieber | 25 March 2021

It would be magnificent of course if the UK were to accept a proportionate number of UNHCR refugees for resettlement in the UK, rather than … Read more

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