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Rajesh Rai

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Work Department

Immigration & asylum; Public law & judicial review; International human rights

Position

Rajesh specialises in Public Law with emphasis on Human Rights, Immigration, Nationality & Refugee Law. He has made successful applications to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights and, at the National level, practices at all levels of his specialist area. He is meticulous in his preparation, practical in the advice he gives and bold in his advocacy. He is a well-regarded and experienced barrister who has practised immigration, human rights and public law for over twenty years.

He has lectured extensively in the UK and internationally on a wide variety of legal issues, including immigration and asylum law, freedom of expression (Bar of Armenia), enforcement of European court judgments (human rights organisation in Turkey), minority linguistic rights (European Parliament), women’s and children’s rights in areas of conflict (cross-border conference to NGOs working in Kurdish regions). He chaired cross-border conferences on an annual basis from 2009 to 2012 in regions in south-east Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. He has had several reports published as a trial and human rights observer.

He has been a director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) and is now on the panel of the council of experts of the Democratic Progress Institute (DPI). DPI and KHRP are non-governmental organisations engaged in international mediation.

Rajesh was formerly deputy head of 1MCB

Career

Called to the Bar 1993

Languages

Punjabi and Hindi (not fluent)