Human Rights Lawyers Re-Unite Family

Longstanding friend of Renfrewshire Law Centre, Joe Bryce, Advocate, Volunteer Law Clinic Supervisor and Conference Consultant, has won an important asylum case with instructing solicitor, Neil Barnes of Loughran Barnes LLP, thus bringing a Congolese family to Scotland to reunite them with their grandmother.

Pascaline Kunda-Kilufya was granted asylum from the war-torn Congo 2007, but her family remained stranded in a Zambian refugee camp.

The Scottish Refugee Council Family Reunion Unit tried to persuade the British High Commission in Zambia to allow the children in to come to the UK, but this was refused on the basis that some of …