Philippe Bonavero
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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
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.
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