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Experts
The experts we work with come from a variety of areas and share a common passion for upholding human rights and social justice. Many of them take part in conferences run by HJT, while others are directly involved in the training courses and bespoke services we offer. Many of our experts contributed to our various Country of Origin Conference.
| Mr Roger Ballard |
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Pakistan expert. Roger Ballard works at the Centre for Applied South Asian Studies, University of Manchester. A freelance anthropologist and expert on the persecution of religious minorities, he has produced more than 250 expert reports on the subject. |
| Dr John Campbell |
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Eritrea expert. Dr Campbell is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has provided expert evidence on a number of cases including the Country Guideline case IN (Draft evaders evidence of risk) Eritrea (2005). |
| Parosha Chandran |
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Iraq expert. Parosha is a barrister at 1 Pump Court and has been involved in some important Iraqi asylum cases. She specialises in human rights law and gives an annual series of lectures for Lincoln Inn on developments in that area of law. |
| Dr Michael Dillon |
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China expert. Dr Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies, Durham University. He has provided expert evidence on a number of cases, including the Country Guideline case SC (Double Jeopardy) (2006). |
| Anna Enayat |
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Iran expert. Ms Enayat is a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and was formerly a Lecturer in Economic Sociology, Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran. |
| Dr Rebwah Fatah |
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Iraq expert. Dr Fatah is founder and director of www.KurdishMedia.com, and is regularly called upon by governmental organisations, NGOs, academics, journalists and researchers as an expert. He has produced over 200 expert reports in cases on Iraq, including the Country Guideline case SM and Others (2005). |
| Dr Antonio Giustozzi |
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Afghanistan expert. Dr Giustozzi has written extensively on Afghanistan for the Crisis State Research Centre at the London School of Economics. |
| Professor Good |
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Sri Lanka expert. He is Professor of Social Anthropology in Practice at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Good has worked with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and has made fact-finding visits to assess the Sri Lankan human rights situation. He has written on the role of expert witness in asylum proceedings. |
| Mark Henderson |
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Zimbabwe expert. Mark is a public lawyer specialising in asylum, human rights, immigration, social welfare, and EU law at Doughty Street Chambers. He is the author of the Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals, ILPA/RLG/EIN, 2003 and co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004, OUP, 2004. He has worked on test case litigation in the AIT, Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal about the safety of Zimbabwe, which resulted in the suspension of removals to that country. He also cross-examined senior Home Office civil servants on their evidence in AIT hearings. |
| Diana Jeater |
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Diana is Professor of African History at the University of the West of England. She has particular expertise in the cultural and social history of Zimbabwe, most recently considering translation and interpretation in legal systems. She is Chair of the Britain Zimbabwe Society and has provided a range of expert reports in asylum cases. |
| Shivani Jegarajah |
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Sri Lanka expert. Shivani is a barrister at Renaissance Chambers and has represented high profile Sri Lankan cases. |
| Dr Virginia Luling |
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Somalia expert. Dr Luling is an independent scholar, repeatedly described by the UK Tribunal as person whose opinions should receive significant weight. |
| Mark Mullins |
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China expert and a specialist in immigration and crime at 5 St. Andrew's Hill Chambers. In August 2006, he represented three failed Tibetan asylum seekers and was successful in establishing a country guidance case, which held that it was unsafe to return failed Tibetan asylum seekers to the People's Republic of China. |
| Peter Moszynski |
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Sudan expert. Peter is a barrister at 36 Bedford Row and has appeared in the House of Lords in several asylum cases, including recent appeals involving internal relocation of Darfurians in Sudan. He is a public law practitioner with a particular interest in international human rights law. | |
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