{"id":4120,"date":"2023-01-16T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/laura-smith-interim-legal-director"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:15:00","slug":"laura-smith-interim-legal-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/laura-smith-interim-legal-director","title":{"rendered":"Laura Smith &#8211; Interim Legal Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Smith\u00a0is a\u00a0solicitor\u00a0and legal team supervisor at JCWI.\u00a0She has worked extensively on asylum law and has particular expertise in asylum cases for persecuted political activists.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nShe represented clients in\u00a0KK and RS (Sur place activities, risk) Sri Lanka (CG)\u00a0[2021] UKUT 130 (IAC)\u00a0and\u00a0DH (Particular Social Group: Mental Health) Afghanistan [2020] UKUT 223 (IAC).\u00a0<br \/>\nIn 2021 Laura hosted an open workshop on mental health in asylum cases, with well over 100 delegates in attendance.<br \/>\nShe joined JCWI in 2019 from Duncan Lewis.\u00a0<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Smith\u00a0is a\u00a0solicitor\u00a0and legal team supervisor at JCWI.\u00a0She has worked extensively on asylum law and has particular expertise in asylum cases for persecuted political activists.\u00a0\u00a0 She represented clients in\u00a0KK and RS (Sur place activities, risk) Sri Lanka (CG)\u00a0[2021] UKUT 130 (IAC)\u00a0and\u00a0DH (Particular Social Group: Mental Health) Afghanistan [2020] UKUT 223 (IAC).\u00a0 In 2021 Laura hosted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}