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Miriam Carrion Benitez

020 7421 8000 mbenitez@36bedfordrow.co.uk

Position

Preferred counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Miriam’s practice combines all aspects of immigration, nationality and asylum law with an ongoing commitment to Human Rights and publicly funded work. She has developed a particular skill in presenting complex cases of law and fact both at tribunal level and in the High Court. Under the Direct Access scheme, Miriam regularly advises clients in the UK and overseas on all aspects of business immigration. In addition to her practice at the Bar, she has worked with both governmental and non–governmental organisations. She continues to work for the European Human Rights Advocacy Project assisting Russian lawyers with the drafting and presentation of cases of gross human rights violations before the European Court of Human Rights. She has trained judges, lawyers and members of NGOs in subjects such as international human rights law, trafficking of women, the Geneva Convention relating to the status of Refugees 1951 and the unlawful deprivation of liberty of those in care. Miriam’s notable cases include: EO (Ghana) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 40; MS (Coptic Christians; Egypt) Country Guidance [2013] UKUT611; Bah (EO (Turkey) – Liability to deport) [2012] UKUT 009196 (IAC); MB (Inability to provide protection–JAM) Trinidad & Tobago, Country Guidance [2010] UKUT (IAC); Musayev & Ors v Russia ECtHR, Applications Nos 57941/00, 60403/00 & 5869900, 31/01/08; Makhauri v Russia ECtHR, Application No 58701/00, 31/03/08; SS (Adan–sexual violence–UNHCR Letter) Burundi v SSHD (2004) UKIAT 00290, Country Guidance.

Career

Called 2001; Gray’s Inn.

Languages

Fluent Russian, German, Polish and Spanish; basic French.

Memberships

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association; Administrative Law Bar Association; Discrimination Law Association; European Bar Group; Gray’s Inn.

Education

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (MA Hons Russian and history, First Class; post-grad MA in German-Russian Translation and Interpretation); Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw (1999 Post-grad Diploma in International Human Rights Law); City University (2000 CPE); College of Law (Bar Vocational Course (distinction)).

Leisure

Travelling, reading, writing.