Amir Ali Majid

Biography

• Reader in International Law, London Metropolitan University
• Part-time Immigration Judge, until he resigned on 7 December 2017 following extensive criticism of his legal ability
• Adjunct Professor in Law, Webster University
• Visiting Professor, Quaid-e-Azam University
• Senior Research Fellow, Islamabad Policy Research Institute
• Erasmus Lecturer, 2003, Frankfurt, Germany

Recognition

• In 2003 he received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian honour in Pakistan.
• He was granted the Life Learning Award by the Kashmir and Pakistan Professionals Association on 17 July 2005.

  Criticism

• As first a First-Tier UK immigration tribunal Judge his judgements have received an unprecedented level of criticism from the Upper Tribunal questioning his competency and knowledge of the law:…there is a virtue in brevity. But the basic requirements of a judicial decision must be met in all cases. It is necessary to set out sufficient of the facts to give a context to the dispute; sufficient of the evidence and submissions to show what the dispute was; findings on any disputed material fact and sufficient and adequate reasons for those findings; and adequate reasons for the conclusion, derived from the facts and the applicable legal rules. In the decisions under appeal before us it is not easy to find even one of those basic requirements being met. The reasons given are not proper, intelligible or accurate. The failures amount to errors of law. …We regard the body of his work that we have examined in the course of these appeals as wholly failing to meet the standards that are demanded …every one of the decisions under appeal shows error of law, in most cases serious error, in most cases multiple serious errors. Whether the decisions are looked at together or separately, they show that nobody should assume that Judge Majid has an adequate knowledge of the law or of his task as a judge...