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Ellis practices in asylum & immigration and has appeared in the Upper Tribunal, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal. He has been praised by instructing solicitors as “a very skilled and knowledgeable Barrister”.
Ellis regularly advises and appears in:
Judicial review (eg fresh claims, certification, procedural fairness claims, ETS etc)
Business Migration (Tier 1 entrepreneur, Tier 2)
Family reunion (Article 8, Appendix FM)
Asylum
Deportation (including “Nexus” appeals)
Unlawful detention and false imprisonment
European Union law (Residence Cards, sham marriage allegations, Ankara applications)
Nationality law (British citizenship: registration, naturalisation and revocation)
Key cases
Ghai, R (on the application of) v Newcastle City Council & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 59; [2011] 1 QB 591: -(application of articles 8/9 ECHR to disposal of human remains by open air cremation motivated by religion orbelief). With Richard Drabble QC, and Eric Fripp
Further information
Public Law in a Hostile Environment – Fairness in Judicial Review and Statutory Appeals
Deportation: A Survey of the Pos-Brexit Landscape
Sea Crossings and Asylum Law
Inadmissibility of Asylum Claims
External Publications
The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom: Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship (Deputy Editor, with Rowena Moffatt and Ellis Wilford (General Editor) (Hart, Oxford and Portland OR, 2014)
Casenote on Robinson (formerly JR (Jamaica)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] 2 WLR 897, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law
Casenote on Patel & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] Imm AR 456, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law
Casenote on Balajigari v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] WLR(D) 232, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law
Appointments & Memberships
Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)