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, both in an advisory capacity and from acting in appeals before the Tribunals and the Court of Appeal in addition to applications for Judicial Review.
Stuart has particular expertise in litigation arising from deprivation of citizenship, criminal deportation, asylum claims, and other human rights claims.
Before joining No5, Stuart spent almost twenty years as in-house counsel in a solicitor’s practice where he advised on a wide range of immigration applications. Additionally, he has developed expertise in many aspects of business immigration, including applications for sponsor licenses, challenges to sponsor license application refusals and revocations of licenses.
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.
