Shu Shin Luh

Practice Areas

Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Community Care, Immigration, Education.

Shu Shin is a highly sought after junior whose practice spans the fields of administrative and public law, human rights, civil liberties and equality and discrimination law. She has depth of expertise in a number of areas of law including community care, mental health and mental capacity, health care, education, housing and welfare benefits, human trafficking and deprivation of liberty. She pursues significant challenges on behalf of marginalised claimants and interveners, has particular expertise in policy challenges concerning access to justice, equality and discrimination and human rights. She acts for individuals and organisations in policy challenges concerning the rights of vulnerable groups including children, disabled people and asylum seekers. She appears in domestic and European courts for claimants and interveners, such as NGOs and charitable organisations. Recent cases include a challenge to the use of hotels to house unaccompanied asylum-seeking children outside the care system; the refusal to implement a statutory appeal process for disabled adults to challenge social care decisions; the misuse of detention powers to stop lawful migrants with NHS debts re-entering the UK; barriers to accessing criminal injuries compensation for victims of child sexual abuse and victims of human rights trafficking. She acted for formerly detained people and an NGO in the inquiry that led to the recently published Brook House Inquiry Report (2023).

She is regularly instructed in public interest litigation on behalf of organisations. She undertakes advisory and consultancy work for non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations and state bodies in the UK and other jurisdictions on legal policy and draft legislation.

Career

Called to the Bar in 2006.

Professional Memberships

Administrative Law Bar Association (executive committee member)

Human Rights Lawyers’ Association; Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association.

Publications

Co-author of Migrant Support Handbook, Legal Action Group (2023); contributing author to Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Law and Practice (Bloomsbury) (2020); contributing author to MacDonald’s Immigration Law and Practice, Lexis Nexis (10th Edition) and previously General Editor for the 9th Edition; Consultant for Halsbury’s Laws 5th Edition Volume 95 (2023): Safeguarding and Social Services; Contributor to Legal Action Magazine’s Community Care Law Quarterly Update on legal developments in child rights.