David Ball

Barrister at the 36 Group

ILPA Trustee and liaison for the ILPA Courts and Tribunals and Removals, Detention and Offences Working Group

David has been a trustee at ILPA since 2019. David has specialised in immigration since working as a caseworker at the Immigration Advisory Service in 2006. He previously worked at Liberty where he acted on a number of high-profile test cases. He subsequently went to the Bar and has a particular interest in asylum, human rights, trafficking and unlawful detention work. He recently successfully represented the Applicant before the European Court of Human Rights in Unuane v UK. He is the Trustee Liaison on the Courts and Tribunals Working Group