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Hugh Southey has appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the case of Garza v United States, report no 52/01, a case that was the first time that the United States was found to be in violation of the Inter-American Declaration on Human Rights before an execution. He has also appeared in State Courts in Texas and Georgia working as part of teams representing British Nationals Tracy Housel and Jackie Elliot.

Michael Mansfield QC and Paul Troop are acting before the Human Rights Advisory Panel for Kosovo http://www.unmikonline.org/human_rights/index.htm on behalf of victims of the fatal shooting of protestors by Romanian UN Peacekeepers in Kosovo during a demonstration in February 2007.

Glen Hodgetts and Navtej Singh Ahluwalia have particular experience of European Community Law including the freedom of movement provisions. Glen Hodgetts has been successful in arguing for a broad interpretation of the consolidating Council Directive 2004/38 and is currently involved in pursuing a potential reference to the European Court of Justice concerning the interpretation of Article 3(2)(a) of that Directive. Navtej Singh Ahluwalia has recently given a number of lectures of Directive 2004/38 at Chambers and for the Immigration Advisory Service.

Rebekah Wilson is a Visiting Lecturer in Law London South Bank University specialising in Human Rights and Development and was previously employed by the United Nations Mission in Nepal by the Office of Civil Affairs, responsible for monitoring the non-military aspect of the 2006 comprehensive peace agreement.

Navtej Singh Ahluwalia has lectured widely on the application of the European convention on Human Rights for the Council of Europe and United Nations High Commission for Refugees Judicial Training Seminars, in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. He is listed as a Council of Europe expert for training on the right to life, freedom from torture, detention, fair trial, family and private life and freedom of religion. He is a guest lecturer on the masters program for the University College London on the European Convention and is regularly asked to teach on specific aspects of the ECHR at training sessions in the UK.

Navtej Singh Ahluwalia has also contributed to the following publications: European Human Rights, Taking a case under the Convention, Clemens, Mole, Simmons, 1999 Sweet & Maxwell, Contributor, Problems raised by certain aspects of the present situation of refugees from the standpoint of the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights No 9 rev, Council of Europe, 2000 and Immigration and Asylum law and the Human Rights Act 1998, Blake and Fransman (Eds) Butterworths, 2000.

Sandhya Drew, as junior counsel, instructed by Save the Children UK, has written a widely published and referenced opinion on the compatibility with international norms of the United Kingdom Government's Reservation to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. She is currently advising UNICEF and Save the Children on international aspects of the UK reservation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, due for review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in October 2008 and currently also under review by the UK Government. 

Sandhya Drew has made submissions to the Supreme Court of India in a case involving the death penalty, has advised a number of Asia-based NGOs and has experience of advising international NGOs on employment matters.