Frans Khan's main area of practice is immigration law, including nationality, asylum and judicial review.
He also practises in family law, criminal defence, general common law, contract, negligence, employment, race discrimination, E. U. law and intellectual property.
Since entering practice, Frans has dealt with a wide range of matters, including blackmail, wounding, child abduction, passing off and internal disciplinary hearings. He has handled well over a thousand asylum cases at all levels up to the Court of Appeal.
Notable cases:
- Lagrandha (1997) (unreported, Court of Appeal) (whether necessary to show that a marriage is bona fides for grant of residence permit to foreign spouse of E. U. national); and
- Meflah
[1998] I. N. L. R. 180 (starred decision on the appellant’s right to
an oral hearing in asylum cases).
Frans
speaks Dutch, French and Spanish.
