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Paul Troop is working with Bosnian lawyers in the forced disappearance case of Paliæ v Bosnia and Herzegovina in the ECHR. Mrs Paliæ is the widow of Colonel Avdo Paliæ, who commanded and successfully defended the Žepa enclave in Eastern Bosnia for 3 years during the war in the former Yugoslavia until his kidnap and disappearance at the hands of Serb forces during negotiations at an UNPROFOR base.

Paul Troop acted as junior in the joined cases of Behrami v France and Saramati v France, Germany and Norway in the Grand Chamber of the ECHR, a case concerning accountability of UN peacekeeping forces for breaches of human rights and he has also acted in other important ECHR cases such as the Grand Chamber case of Bleèiæ v Croatia [2006] ECHR 207, related to ethnic cleansing by discriminatory housing allocation and Uzun v Turkey 37410/97, where the court found a breach of the Article 2 right to life.

Hugh Southey has represented applicants in a number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights, most recently Shelly v United Kingdom, Application Number, 23800/06 in relation to the refusal to provide needle exchanges for prisoners.

Glen Hodgetts has also experience of taking case to the ECHR in cases such as TI v United Kingdom, Application number 43844/98, and Suqniki v United Kingdom, the latter concerning the potential deportation of a settled refugee from Kosovo in violation of his right to private and family life.

Glen Hodgetts is consulting editor of the United Kingdom Human Rights Reports published by Jordans and was formerly Consulting Editor of the Human Rights' Journal.

Navtej Singh Ahluwalia is a case reporter for Sweet & Maxwell's European Human Rights Reports Navtej Singh Ahluwalia [link] has also been involved in taking a number of cases to the European Court of Human Rights and is regularly asked for advice on both the merits and procedure before the Court. He was the junior lawyer in Osman v United Kingdom [1998] 29 EHRR 245 (liability of public bodies in negligence), Bensaid v United Kingdom [2001] 33 EHRR 10, (removal of an mentally ill patient from the United Kingdom), TP and KM v United Kingdom [2002] 34 EHRR 2 and Z and others v United Kingdom [2002] 34 EHRR 3 (both concerning the liability of social services in negligence), Powell v United Kingdom, Application No 45305/99 (duty of candour owed by NHS doctors to the parents of children who die in hospital), Osu v Italy Application Application No 36534/97 (trial in absentia), Cardoso and Johansen v United Kingdom Application 47061/99 (removal of same sex partner), Singh v United Kingdom Application No 30024/96 (removal of Sikh family to India), Cooke v Austria Application No 25878/94 (applicant's presence in criminal proceedings), He drafted the legal submissions in the application in Taylor v United Kingdom Application No 48864/99 (length of proceedings in Youth Court) and TI v United Kingdom Application No 43844/99 (removal under the Dublin Convention; onward refoulement under Article 3 ECHR).

Navtej Singh Ahluwalia has also litigated before the United Nations Committee Against Torture obtaining the first rule 108/9 order (interim measures) from the Committee in Parminder Singh Saini v Canada.

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