Representation


Representation of ILPA at Stakeholder and other meetings

UK Border Agency

The Border and Immigration Agency has recently reorganised its stakeholder groups. Our thanks to those ILPA members who represented ILPA on previous stakeholder committees. We anticipate that sub-committees to the new stakeholder groups will emerge over the coming months.

  • Border and Immigration Agency Corporate Stakeholders
    ILPA Representative: Alison Harvey, General Secretary
    Next meeting: TBC (previous meeting 8 April)

  • Detention User Group
    ILPA Representatives: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
    Next meetings: 20 October (plus meeting on Detained Fast Track 12 February)

  • Employers' Task Force
    ILPA Representatives: Philip Trott, Bates, Wells and Braithwaite, Nichola Carter, H2O Law
    Next meeting: 18 October

  • National Asylum Stakeholders' Forum (NASF)
    ILPA Representative: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
    Meetings: TBC (previous meeting 24 July)

  • NASF Case Resolution Sub-Forum
    ILPA Representative: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
    Next Meeting: TBC (previous meeting 29 January)

  • Ad Hoc Meetings on Economic Migration and the Points-Based System
    ILPA Representatives: Philip Barth, Penningtons, Philip Trott, Bates, Wells and Braithwaite, Nichola Carter, Ghersons; Sophie Barrett-Brown, Laura Devine Solicitors


    Other Government Meetings

  • UKvisas Entry Clearance User Panel
    ILPA Representatives: Alison Harvey, General Secretary, Nichola Carter H2O Law
    Next meeting: TBC (previous meeting 25 January - workshop on Administrative Review)

  • Home Office Human Trafficking - NGO Stakeholder Consultative Group
    ILPA Representative: Nadine Finch, Garden Court Chambers


    Public Bodies

  • Administrative Court Officers
    ILPA Representatives: Judith Farbey, Doughty Street Chambers, Jawaid Luqmani, Luqmani Thompson, Mark Henderson, Doughty Street Chambers

  • Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Stakeholders
    ILPA Representative: Mark Henderson, Doughty Street Chambers

  • Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
    ILPA Representative: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer

  • Mayor of London Community Safety Forum
    (supporting Mayor's Board for Refugee Integration in London)
    ILPA Representative: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer

  • 11 Million
    (formerly The Children's Commissioner for England and Wales)
    ILPA Representatives: Alison Harvey, General Secretary, Steve Symonds, Legal Officer


    Non-Governmental Organisations and Networks

    ILPA Representation

  • Housing and Immigration Group (HIG)
    ILPA Representative: Sheona Yorke, Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre

  • Law Society, Immigration Sub-Committee
    ILPA Representative: Stefan Vnuk, Fisher Meredith

  • Refugee Children's Consortium
    ILPA Representatives: Nadine Finch, Garden Court Chambers, Steve Symonds, Legal Officer, Alison Harvey, General Secretary

    ILPA contact person for Non-Governmental Organisations

  • Anti-Trafficking Legal Project: Alison Harvey, General Secretary
  • Asylum Rights Campaign: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
  • Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) Sheona Yorke, Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
  • Foreign National Prisoners Network: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer and Richard Thomas, Doughty Street Chambers
  • Refugee Legal Group: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
  • Still Human, Still Here: Steve Symonds, Legal Officer
  • Trafficking Law and Policy Network, Alison Harvey, General Secretary