Philippe Bonavero

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Philippe Bonavero

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Philippe is a former head of the immigration team in chambers. He now sits as a fee-paid judge of the First-tier Tribunal (IAC).

Selected Cases

Sala (EFMs: Right of Appeal) [2016] UKUT 411

Whether “extended family members” have a right to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006.

R (on the application of Vassell) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] All ER (D) 220

Leading case on the proper approach to section 96 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2002 in deportation proceedings.

PF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] WLR (D) 149

Circumstances in which the presiding member of a Tribunal can exercise his casting vote when the panel is equally split in immigration tribunal proceedings.

ED (Ghana) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 39

Whether a long-term young unlawful resident was able to rely on the test in Maslov v Austria (1638/03) [2007] 1 F.C.R. 707 to resist his removal from the United Kingdom.

Qualifications:
Call: 2008
2004 – 2005 Inns of court school of law, City University
Bar Vocational Course: Very Competent
2001 – 2004 School of oriental and african studies, University of London

Law LLB: Upper Second
Professional memberships:
Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
BSB Registration:
ICO No:
Z3013164