@drschelvan
#SilenceIsNotAnOption #IAmAnActivistLawyer - #Barrister and Human Rights Activist -Head of Immigration, Public Law & Civil Liberties @33bedfordrow-Adjunct Professor @southamptonlawschool -#LegalCommentator -- #QueerRefugees #IAmAnImmigrant- #DachshundDad ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Dr S Chelvanโs โDiary of a Strategic Litigation Lawyer" is published by Hart Publishing today as part of a volume examining โLandmark Cases in International Refugee Protectionโ.
@drschelvan.bsky.social
#LitigationLawyer #LandmarkCases #RefugeeProtection
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#HumanRightsDay - Our barristers continue to work at the forefront of international justice, ensuring that essential rights are protected. Today, we highlight their recent, critical work!
@dijkstal.bsky.social @drschelvan.bsky.social
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#WinterIsComing
Travelling up to Leeds for Home Office asylum interview with client.
#BarristerLife
@33bedfordrow.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
Link to #BBCNews interview :
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wouwa...
#UKasylum โก๏ธ #Danishmodel?
#lbc MatthewWright
#BBCNews Catherine Byaruhanga
#Refugees #Asylum #HostileEnvironment #DanishModel
@33bedfordrow.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
@stevepeers.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @danielsohege.bsky.social
#TimesRadio #breakfastshow with @StigAbell & @KateEMcCann
Hadush Kebatu ( bbc.co.uk/news/articles/โฆ )
ยฃ500 comes outside the โadditional paymentsโ Facilitated Return Scheme :
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68517356๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
2024 USDOS -torture of detainees:
state.gov/reports/2024-cโฆ
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Our #BarristerSpotlight for October is Dr S Chelvan - a multi-award winning and globally recognised legal expert who, since November 2020, has served as the Head of Immigration and Public Law
Read about Chelvan's #career highlights, #expertise and #influence below.
@drschelvan.bsky.social
#InMemorium
6/10/25
Markโs 62nd Birthday - and what would have been our 24th anniversary
Top Row (left-right)
(1) 2002 (2) Mexico City June2023 (3) #LALY23
Bottom row (4) #Pride 2023 (5)Summer Rites 2004 (6) our last text message exchange (7) sharing the pain, emptiness, love and heartbreak โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
Thank you Kate ๐๐พ
#GoodMorningBritain- discussing the facts & issues surrounding the UKโs approach to trafficking victims under the UK-France treaty (co-panellist Christian Calgiewith presenters Susanah Reid &Richard Madeley)
#Refugees
@33bedfordrow.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Dr S Chelvan will be speaking at the '9th Global Summit on Feminist and LGBTQ+ Studies' in Vancouver - 'Through the Looking Glass โ What Queer Refugees Can Focus on to Gain Sanctuary.'
@drschelvan.bsky.social
#QueerRefugees #ImmigrationLaw #SocialJustice
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How to start the day โฆ
โI am so lucky to have you today .. I canโt believe it -I saw you on tv - on Sky and BBC. - to see you advocating for human rights - this is amazing ..
โI was watching with my son and saying there is someone for us โฆ- so our voice is heard - I thank you Drโ.
Ali #uber
Thank you Jeff x
Not the usual Birthday (51st 1 September)
Birthday greetings at home and from abroad (Melbourne-based cousin Shevy at the Pyramids) Media interviews -4 ( see www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-s-c... ) and the drinks with friends Grant and Martin)
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Link to the Live Stream (Court of Appeal) from 10am Lord Justice Bean, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lord Justice Cobb:
www.court-tribunal-hearings.service.gov.uk/court-of-app...
#AsylumHostels
#Refugees
#HomeSecretary
(28 August 2025) BBC Radio Scotland, 7:35am regarding this morningโs hearing before the Court of Appeal (Ct 71) in the Epping Forest District Council case (from 7:35 am):
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/liโฆ
19 August 2025 judgment
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
#RootstoRoutes
#SAHM25
โRoots to Routesโ journey meshes the personal with the professional since my entry to the UK as a four year-old on 6 September 1978. Working to empower refugees and migrants as an intersectional Queer British South Asian
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#SouthAsianHeritageMonth
(Image via Bloomberg )
#Nomos is back home โฆ
#Saturdaymorning
#OldDelhi
Completed the #GoldenTriangle
Stunning - mystical - intertwine culture, religion, and artisans. โฆ. ๐๐พ
Thank you Karin x ๐๐พ
#Magic
There are some destinations you only visit in your dreams โฆ and sometimes dreams become a reality โฆ
#TheTajMahal ๐๐พ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
#India ๐ฎ๐ณ
#PrideMonth2025 - Bloomberg is hosting a flagship event, exploring the importance of #inclusion of all, and the #safeguarding of #humanrights as drivers of economic growth and innovation.
Dr Chelvan @drschelvan.bsky.social will be part of the #Panel
Register: go.bloomberg.com/attend/invit...
Congratulations to Lucy Masoud - 33 Bedford Row Family Barrister - for being recognised as a finalist in this year's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards! @wearelapg.bsky.social
#Finalist #ProBono #FamilyBarrister #33BedfordRow
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Dr Chelvan @drschelvan.bsky.social was recently #interviewed on Peter Cardwell's Show for Talk TV.
The panel included Dr Chelvan and Steven Woolfe who discuss the UN Relief Chief video which shows #refugees forced to return to #Afghanistan from #Pakistan
www.33bedfordrow.co.uk/insights/new...
We are pleased to announce that Geoffrey Carr has joined 33BR as Senior Civil #Clerk. Geoff has over forty yearsโ experience working in barristersโ chambers and has extensive expertise in #strategy, managing teams, client #relationships and fostering #collaboration.
Whilst the #Spring sunshine tempts more time outdoors -Nomos understands the brief - accompanied by @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social #SundayHomeworkClub is in full-swing โฆ
#BarristerLife
@33bedfordrow.bsky.social
@dogs.bsky.social
โOne very important thing is education & equipping & empowering survivors โฆ to get their stories into the right spaces, so they can start to influence those communities where we know that conversion practices and conversion ideology is absolutely rife.โ
We need to keep challenging homo/transphobia.
