Adrian Berry

Adrian's practice spans a range of inter-related areas of public law concerning human rights and social welfare. His core areas of practice are: British nationality, EU citizenship and free movement, economic and student migration, international protection and asylum, general immigration law, homelessness and migrant welfare, child support, and social security and social assistance.

Adrian has contributed to a number of publications including: Fransman's British Nationality Law (3rd edition 2011), the JCWI Handbook 2006, Jackson and Warr's Immigration Law and Practice (2008) Blackstone's Guide to the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (OUP 2010). He advised JCWI on government nationality proposals, and contributed to responses to government consultation papers and advised peers in the House of Lords for ILPA.

Adrian provides training courses in British nationality law, EU law, immigration law, community care law, migrant welfare law, housing law, social security law and immigration law. He has provided accredited training for the Academy of European Law, Garden Court Chambers, ILPA, HLPA, JCWI, Legal Action, law centres, and local authorities.

Adrian is chair of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Membership

  • Administrative Law Bar Association
  • Housing Law Practitioners' Association
  • Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
  • Social Security Law Practitioners' Association
  • Haldane Society

Qualifications

  • M. Litt.
  • M.A.

1 Contributions by Adrian Berry

UK Right of Abode: status, pre-1983 patriality, post-1983 rules, proving status and certificates of entitlement (digital), polygamy restrictions, reconsideration/judicial review, deprivation, and naturalisation
PRACTICE NOTES
UK Right of Abode: status, pre-1983 patriality, post-1983 rules, proving status and certificates of entitlement (digital), polygamy restrictions, reconsideration/judicial review, deprivation, and naturalisation
The right of abode—status The right of abode in the UK is an immigration status. It lets a person reside here and to enter and depart the UK freely, save for steps needed to confirm the right or any other lawfully imposed limits. Such limits may include: being required to present a passport when seeking entry to the UK refusal of entry if unable to produce a relevant UK passport refusal of entry if unable to show a certificate of entitlement on arrival being made subject to a temporary exclusion order, whether or not a permit to return has been issued Someone with the right of abode is not subject to immigration control in the UK. Section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971 grants this right to all British citizens. Certain Commonwealth citizens who possessed the right of abode in the UK before 1983 retain it on and after that date, provided they have not ceased to be Commonwealth citizens...
Immigration
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