Who we are

ILPA’s Board of the Directors is its Executive Committee which is elected annually by the membership.  All members of the Executive Committee are members of ILPA. 

All aspects of ILPA’s work are supported by its Secretariat of paid staff.

ILPA’s work is organised into subcommittees.

All ILPA's work is carried out by its members, supported by the Secretariat. 

 

The Executive Committee of ILPA

To get in touch with members of the Executive Committee, please get in touch with the ILPA Secretariat.

President: Ian Macdonald QC, Garden Court North Chambers (Head of Chambers) and Garden Court Chambers

Chair: Sophie Barrett-Brown, Solicitor, Partner and Head of UK Practice, Laura Devine Solicitors

Secretary: Adam Weiss, Caseworker (OISC level 3), foreign qualified lawyer (New York State), Legal Director of the AIRE Centre

Treasurer: Esther Lieu, Barrister (non-practising), Grants and Projects Manager, the AIRE Centre

Committee members:

Adrian Berry

Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Syd Bolton Solicitor, Co-Director, Refugee Children's Rights Project, the Coram Children's Legal Centre

Nicola Cockburn

Solicitor, Lambeth Law Centre

Hazar El Chamaa

Solicitor, Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Katie Dilger Solicitor, Wesley Gryk Solicitors

Mark Henderson

Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers

Sue Shutter 

Immigration caseworker for Fiona Mactaggart MP

Meghan Vozila

Sturtivant & Co. solicitors

 

Staff of the Secretariat

The General Secretary of ILPA is Alison Harvey and the staff team comprises:

Finance Manager with Administration: 

Lana Norris
Information Officer Philip Reilly

Personal Assistant to the General Secretary:

Elizabeth White

Membership and Training Coordinator:

Helen Williams

Legal Officer: 

Steve Symonds
Refugee Children’s Project Coordinator:

Nirmala Rajasingam

 

ILPA Subcommittees

ILPA organises its work into subcommittees.   The current range of subcommittees and their convenors are shown below.  All convenors are members of ILPA.   To contact a subcommittee convenor, please get in touch with the ILPA Secretariat.  ILPA also convenes ad hoc working groups around particular topics and the staff can help you identify who would be the best person to speak to on a particular topic.

Access to Justice

Mark Henderson, Doughty Street Chambers and Alison Pickup, Doughty Street Chambers

Children   

Judith Dennis, British Refugee Council and Baljeet Sandhu, Islington Law Centre

Detention and Asylum Fast-Track

Steve Bravery; Kay Everett, Wilsons Solicitors LLP and Pierre Mahklouf,BID

Economic Migration

Philip Barth, Penningtons Solictors LLP; Smruti Jeyanandhan, Laura Devine Solicitors,  Philip Trott, Bates, Wells and Braithwaite LLP 

European

Elspeth Guild, Kingley Napley LLP and Alison Hunter, Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP     

Family and General

Pat Saini, Penningtons Solicitors LLP and Sue Shutter

Immigration Offences

 Jawaid Luqmani, Luqmani Thompson and Partners and Richard Thomas, Doughty Street Chambers
Legal Aid Jackie Peirce; Sonia Routledge, Birnberg Peirce and Partners

South West

Rosie Brennan, University of Plymouth and Natasha Williams, Nicholas Moore Employment Solicitors
Training Helen Williams, ILPA 

Yorkshire and North East

 Ish Ahmed, Parker Rhodes and Hickmott Solicitors and Christopher Cole, Cole & Yousaf Solicitors

 

 


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