An experienced junior who specialises in immigration, nationality and asylum law as well as in international human rights law.
Stuart’s practice has encompassed all aspects of asylum, nationality and immigration work, from acting in appeals before the Tribunals and the Court of Appeal in addition to applications for Judicial Review.
Currently, he has particular expertise in deprivation of citizenship, criminal deportation, asylum claims, other human rights appeals.
Before joining No5, Stuart spent almost twenty years as in-house counsel where in additionally, he also developed expertise in many aspects of business immigration
Stuart has been appointed as a trial observer by NGOs such as the International Commission of Jurists, the Kurdish Human Rights Project and the Bar Human Rights Committee.
He has been co-opted as specialist trainer in human rights law, appointed by among others the Council of Europe, and UNDP, for example training prosecutors and the judiciary in Turkey, Kosovo and at the War Crimes Tribunal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in addition to independent lawyers and human rights activists in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
