Julius Nkafu

Barrister

Great James Street

Immigration London 2021

A topic that is close to the heart of everyone at Law Friends, Great James Street’s Julius Nkafu takes a detailed look at defending the human rights of asylum seekers, in particular:

Support for asylum seekers

Asylum seekers in detention

Human Rights Act - Article 3 - The definition of torture

Human Rights Act - Article 8 - Right to private and family life

The future ramifications of the Nationality and Borders Bill

Relevant law

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Limbuela (([2005] UKHL 66))

M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece [GC], 30696/09, ECHR 2011

Sufi and Elmi v. the United Kingdom, 8319/07 and 11449/07, 28 June 2011

Soering v United Kingdom 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) (1989)

N v UK

Paposhvili v Belgium

AM Zimbabwe v. SSHD

Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the United Kingdom, 8139/09, ECHR 2012

Julius Nkafu was called to the English Bar at the Inner Temple in 2014 and called to the Cameroon Bar in 2006. He was enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of E&W in 2002. Julius started his legal Career in 1995 at MHQ Solicitors in the Docklands. He set up Julius & Co solicitors in 2006 and in 2010 became a partner at Julliz Solicitors LLP. Julius has extensive expertise in alternative disputes resolution – arbitration and mediation. He is an expert in international arbitration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). He is also a mediator and a barrister called to both the Bars of England and Wales and Cameroon, West Africa.

Julius lectures international arbitration at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and constantly delivers lectures on behalf of the institute to arbitrators across the world.