Members of Chambers - Gina Allwood

Call: 2002

Qualifications: LLB (HONS)

Background

Gina was called to the Bar in 2002 having practised as a Financial Advisor. Following her call to the Bar, Gina ran a busy Immigration Department for 3 years and was the instructing lawyer in the test case of R(D) and R(H) v Secretary of StateCO/2106/2004, Asylum seekers from the new Eastern European Union countries who won permission to bring a High Court challenge against the governmentäs decision to block their state benefits.

Areas of practice:

All aspects of Family and Children work, Asylum and Immigration, Asylum Support, Human Rights, Employment, Nationality, Social Security, Public law, Contractual Disputes. Gina has been involved in cases which concern a link with family and Immigration law, particularly Wardship proceedings and High Court Inherent Jurisdiction. As Ginaäs practice develops in Family Law, she will be looking to expand in other areas of family law, particularly those with an international flavour such as international child abduction. In Asylum, Gina has a particular interest and expertise in representing trafficked children, and in cases involving vulnerable female individuals, specifically focusing on gender guidelines. Gina also practises in the Administrative Court in Judicial Review matters and has experience of obtaining telephone injunctions out of hours in immigration matters.

Gina recently assisted Manjit Gill QC and Ramby de Mello in relation to the marriage case R (on the application of (1) MAHMOUD BAIAI (2) IZABELA TRCINSKA) (Claimants) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Defendant) & JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS (Intervener) [2006] EWHC 1454 (Admin) under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004) involving EU law and ECHR law.

Societies FLBA, ALBA, ILPA,