Case History
Kim's recent notable cases include:​
SM (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Successful application for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal in a Sri Lankan asylum case. The case concerned whether the UT was correct to uphold the FTT’s decision, where the cumulative effect of the errors in the decision were said to have deprived the Appellant of a fair hearing. Permission to appeal was granted on all grounds and the case settled by consent order.
Oluponle v The Home Office [2023] EWHC 3188 (KB)
Appeared as sole junior in two day false imprisonment trial before the High Court. Claimant awarded damages of £20,000 where the High Court found that his detention has been ‘wholly unnecessarily and unreasonably extended by the Defendant’s failures’ for a period of 60 days.
R (SD) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2024)
Permission to apply for judicial review granted in challenge to delay by Home Office in determining asylum claim for a period of more than six years. A decision to grant asylum was made shortly after the grant of permission.
SB v SSHD (2023)
Upper Tribunal upholds decision by the First-tier Tribunal to allow deportation appeal on the grounds that there were “very compelling circumstances,” over and above the exceptions to deportation, in the case of an appellant who had a sentence of more than four years imprisonment. The First-tier Tribunal accepted that deportation would have a detrimental impact on the Appellant’s children. Kim appeared before both the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal.
TH v SSHD (2023)
Successful appeal on Article 3 health grounds on behalf of an Egyptian national, with Kim representing the appellant before the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. The Upper Tribunal upheld the decision of the First-tier Tribunal to allow the appeal.
DL v SSHD (2024)
Deportation appeal involving an appellant born in the United Kingdom to Portuguese parents. The First-tier Tribunal allowed his appeal, finding that the Appellant is a British Citizen and therefore his deportation is ‘not in accordance with the law.’
OG v SSHD (2024)
Successful appeal on humanitarian protection grounds for a Nigerian male victim of modern slavery.
NM v SSHD (2024)
Second appeal by adult dependant mother of a Syrian national allowed on Article 8 grounds.
SI v SSHD (2023)
Successful appeal against refusal to revoke deportation order. The Appellant had been removed from the United Kingdom in 2019. Appeal succeeded on the grounds that the effect of deportation on the children was “unduly harsh.”
RM v SSHD (2023)
Appeal against deportation for Zimbabwean national allowed on grounds that removal would be in breach of Article 3 ECHR because of serious mental health condition.
EL v SSHD (2023)
Appeal allowed on humanitarian protection grounds for an Albanian male victim of trafficking.
YG v SSHD (2023)
Successful asylum appeal for a Chinese victim of trafficking.