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Raza Husain KC

Raza Husain KC

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Matrix Chambers has earned a ‘very good reputation’ in the field of immigration and asylum law, with its practitioners regularly acting in complex and novel cases involving high net worth individuals and national security issues. Nick Armstrong KC led Toby Fisher and Darryl Hutcheon in R (AH and IS) v SSHD, a significant challenge to individual immigration detentions that raised a wider systems challenge to the Home Office and Brook House immigration removal centre. Raza Husain KC is highly regarded for his work on the Rwanda litigation, having acted as lead counsel the litigation both prior and subsequent to the Safety of Rwanda Act 2024, up until the policy's demise at the end of the Conservative government. Christopher Buttler KC acted in VT v Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory, a successful claim on behalf of 61 Tamil migrants seeking damages for their treatment in the British Overseas Territory with no population other than a joint US-UK military base. Eleanor Mitchell was also involved in key Diego Garcia-related litigation.
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Position

Barrister specialising in immigration and human rights; A (internment and legality of derogation from Article 5) HL; Ullah (extra territoriality) HL; Razgar (private life and mental health; proportionality review in appellate context) HL; Adan (civil war and refugee status); HL; AE (internal flight) HL pending; Bagdanavicius (risks from non-state actors) HL pending; Limbuela (destitution of asylum seekers) HL pending; A (admissibility of evidence from torture) HL pending; Davoodipanah (withdrawal of concessions) CA; E and R (error of fact as discrete public law wrong) CA; El-Ali (article 1D Refugee Convention) CA; Z (private life and sexuality); Osorio (obligation to determine refugee status) CA; Gardi (unit of analysis in refugee definition) CA; Robinson (internal flight) CA. Civil liberties; Nadarajah (detention) CA; G (Anisminic approach to superior court of record’s exercise of bail jurisdiction) CA; M (first successful internee appeal) CA; D (false imprisonment) CA; Q (destitution of asylum seekers) CA; Farrakhan (free speech) Court of Appeal; Chahal (No.2) (compensation for detention) CA; Waite ECHR (article 5(4)); Percy (justiciability of legality of Iraq war) Queen’s Bench Division: EU and free movement; Radiom and Shingara (64/221 articles 8 and 9) ECJ; Manjit Kaur (effective nationality) ECJ.

Career

Called 1993; 2 Garden Court 1994-2000; Matrix Chambers 2000; editorial board of ILPA Journal; co-author with Nicholas Blake QC of ‘Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights’ (OUP 2003).

Languages

Urdu, Hindu, basic Punjabi, French.

Memberships

Immigration Law Practitioners Association; Administrative Law Bar Association; executive committee member of ILPA for five years.

Education

Exeter College, Oxford (1987-90).

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