Immigration Summit 2025
Join leading legal professionals, experts, policymakers, and campaigners for the Leigh Day Immigration Summit 2025, a crucial event tackling the most pressing issues in immigration law, policy, and practice.
April 2025 marks seven years since the Windrush Scandal came to public attention.
This important and timely Summit brings together leading lawyers, experts, organisations, legislators, journalists, researchers and policy makers, in the UK and internationally, to discuss some of the current issues in immigration law, policy and practice.
Throughout the day attendees will hear from keynote speaker Simon Israel and expert panels exploring the realities of immigration control, offshore policies, and whether the 1951 Refugee Convention remains fit for purpose.
Panel sessions include:
- UK riots and discontent: Does anti-migrant discourse play a role?
- Safe legal routes: How do we choose which conflicts generate safe havens?
- Deportation: Are mandatory laws harmful and discriminatory?
- The Right to Belong: How do citizenship laws shape identity and belonging?
- The Rule of Law: How do legal aid and other funding cuts undermine access to justice?
- Immigration detention: Are there viable alternatives to detaining migrants?
- Modern slavery: Are restrictive immigration policies driving people trafficking?
- The right to family life: Do immigration laws curtail the right to family life?
- Asylum claims: What role should the state play in determining credibility?
- Migration and climate justice: What legal frameworks can we develop to protect climate vulnerable migrants?
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£239.99 +VAT (includes breakfast, lunch, Summit goodies, an evening reception and the opportunity to network with leading experts, policy makers and campaigners.
Esteemed speakers and organisations
Panellists include: Jacqueline McKenzie and her team at Leigh Day, Keynote speaker Simon Israel and, in alphabetical order: Aderonke Apata, Adrian Berry KC, Lord Alf Dubs, Brian Dikoff, Debbie Ariyo OBE, Diane Taylor, Frances Webber, Geoffrey Mboya, Grace Brown, Irungu Houghton, Isaac Shaffer, James Wilson, Dr Juanita Cox, Karen Doyle, Kate Roberts, Professor Katharine Charsley, Katherine Cronin, Kerry Smith, Larry Bottinick, Laurie Fransman, Lee Jasper, Luke De Noronha, Miranda Butler, Nadine Finch, Oliver Oldman, Paola Uccellari, Professor Parosha Chandran, Peter Herbert, Phil Haywood, Pierre Makhlouf, Rachel Karp HHJ, Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah, Dr S Chelvan, Shu Shin Luh, Somaya Ouazzani, Sonali Naik KC, Sonia Lenegan, Toufique Hossain, Victoria Marks, Yasmin Ahmed, Zoe Bantleman and Zoe Gardner.
Organisations include: Leigh Day and 33 Bedford Row, African Rainbow Family, AFRUCA, Amnesty International, ATLEU, BID, Detention Action, Doughty Street, Duncan Lewis, Focus on Labour Exploitation, Free Movement, Garden Court, Helen Bamber Foundation, ILPA, Institute of Race Relations, JCWI, Kingsley Napley, Landmark Chambers, Medical Justice, Migrants Organise, One Pump Court, Oxford University, Public Law Project, Refugee Legal Service, UCL, UNHCR, University of Bristol, Wilsons and Young Roots.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Venue: The Leonardo Hotel, 10 Godliman St, St Paul’s, London EC4V 5AJ
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM, followed by a drinks reception
Tickets: £239.99 + VAT per person
CPD: CPD points available.
For event inquiries, contact: Events@leighday.co.uk
We look forward to welcoming you to the Leigh Day Immigration Summit 2025, a forum for meaningful discussion and action on the future of immigration policy and justice.