Raza Husain read Politics Philosophy and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford (1987-90).   Raza specialises in public law with an emphasis on immigration and human rights.  Over the last three years, Raza has been instructed in eleven House of Lords cases, including the Belmarsh case (2004) concerning the indefinite internment of alien terrorist suspects, and the subsequent A (No.2) case (2005) concerning the admissibility of evidence derived from torture.  Raza was instructed by the NGOs JUSTICE and Liberty in Limbuela (2005) and in Ullah (2004), in which the House or Lords respectively declared the denial of basic subsistence to asylum seekers incompatible with human rights, and held that the application of the ECHR in immigration cases was not restricted to Article 3 (prohibition on torture etc). This year Raza appeared in the House of Lords in Huang, which concerned the meaning and content of the proportionality test under Article 8 (family life), and in JJ and Others, which concerned the ‘control order’ legislation enacted in the aftermath of the Belmarsh ruling.  Raza was instructed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to intervene in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Saadi v. UK (2007), in which the UNHCR challenged the UK’s emerging system of detaining asylum seekers for the purposes of administrative convenience alone. Other areas of focus include maladministration in the treatment of Iraqi refugees. 

Raza is currently instructed in Chikwamba (HL, refugee family unity); in cases challenging deportation on the strength of diplomatic assurances; and in test cases on the meaning and application of Article 15C of the EU Qualification Directive (risks arising from situations of armed conflict).

Raza is the co-author, with Nicholas Blake QC, of Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights (OUP, 2003).  In October 2007, Raza was given the Junior Barrister of the Year award for 2007 in Public Law and Human Rights by Chambers and Partners.

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