Paul Turner
Joint Head of Chambers
Year of Call: 1998, The Honourable Society of Lincolns’ Inn
Direct Access Barrister
Paul brings to Barristers’ Hub more than two decades of diverse and prolific experience in practice areas relating to nationality, residency, data protection, money laundering, cyber currency and corporate arbitration. Acting in a wide range of complex and contentious matters, Paul has established an unparalleled forte in immigration law.
Not only does he provide consultation and represents clients at all legal forums, he also excels at handling judicial reviews, appeals and injunction applications. Moreover, he has and continues to represent numerous high-profile clients successfully and most recently, has effectively represented the Highly Skilled Migrants’ Group in challenging the Tier 1 Tax refusal.
He has an active social media presence wherein he discusses and analyses changes to immigration laws and the implications of legal reforms in respect thereto.
Paul has been associated with various notable chambers and is a much sought-after immigration barrister because of his rigorous and thorough practice. He has many reported cases to his credit, some of which are cited below.
R (on the application of) Mays v London Borough of Brent [2003] EWHC 481 (Admin)
R (on the application of) M v London Borough of Islington and Secretary of State of the Home Department [2003] EWHC 1388 (Admin)
R (on the application of) Broni Appiah v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2009] EWHC 2596 (Admin)
SB (Trinidad and Tobago) v Secretary of State [2010] EWCA Civ 1165
R (on the application of) Bharadva v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2010] EWHC 3030 (Admin)
Oppong v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2011] UKUT 431 (IAC)
R (on the application) of Arirad v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1207 (Admin)
R on the application of Toufighy and Duran v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2012] EWHC 3004
Secretary of State of the Home Department v Hayat and Treebowan [2012] EWCA 1054
R (on the application of) UK Business Academy v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 2385 (Admin)
R (on the application of) Shoqaib v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 3244 (Admin)
R (on the application of) AR (Iran) v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 778
R (on the application of) Shakeel v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1169 (Admin)
R (on the application of) Navaratnam v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] EWHC 2383 (QB)
NN (South Africa) v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 653
R (on the application of) Rahim v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] EWHC 2794 (Admin)
R on the application of) Matthews v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] UKUT 00466
R (on the application of) Hamzeh v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2013] EWHC 4113 (Admin)
R (on the application of) Masso v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWHC 159 (Admin)
R(on the application of) Lavang v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWHC 3473
SH (Iran) v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 1469 RN (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ
R (on the application of) Tesfay v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWHC 2109
R (on the application of) Johnson v Secretary of State of the Home Department [2014] EWHC 2386 and 2775
Yasmin v Secretary of State IA/41579/2014 SSHD appeal – no error of law – appeal upheld
SSHD v Kanadapillai AA/03185/2015
SSHD appeal – no error of law – appeal to be reheard Ms Priya Ramji Bhanderi v SSHD IA26701/2015 Appellant appeals on basis long residence in error of law – succeeded
Raheel Ur Rehman Sumair Ahmed Tariq Ayesha Fayyaz Paracha v SSHD IA26258/2012 Error of law – no appeal under s.47 issued
Muhammad Akhtar Houssein Bheekhoo v SSHD IA/11834 Home Office appeal – no error of law found – appeal dismissed
PM v SSHD IA/08144/2014 Error of law – error found – appeal set aside
R (on the application of) Lavang v SSHD JR/3473/2014
Rashid Razzaq & Others v SSHD IA/10822/2014 Error of Law – decision remade
Philip Winslow Thilagarajan v SSHD AA/05264/2016 Asylum appeal dismissed – appealed – error of law found – decision set aside
Tran v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 694 (30 April 2015)
DA (Iraq) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 1523 (11 November 2015)
Johnson, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 22 (26 January 2016)
Johnson, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 56 (19 October 2016) (Supreme Court found HO law on legitimacy/nationality unlawful
Manderson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 2715 (21 March 2017)
PA074652016 [2017] UKAITUR PA074652016 (20 December 2017) (Upper Tribunal set aside decision vitiated on factual errors)
London St Andrew's College, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2496 (08 November 2018)
Mansur (Immigration adviser's failings, Article 8) [2018] UKUT 274 (IAC) (16 July 2018)
PA029812018 [2019] UKAITUR PA029812018 (12 September 2019) (allowed appeal on sexuality by Upper Tribunal in respect of Bangladesh
Rauf v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1276 (24 July 2019)
Ellis, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (discretionary leave policy; supplementary reasons) [2020] UKUT 82 (IAC) (5 February 2020)
