Immigration Detainees/ Useful Contacts / Immigration Advisers
Solicitors / Immigration Practitioners
Below are the names and contacts of some of the solicitors who have represented immigration detainees over the last two years. This is not a comprehensive list of Immigration Practitioners in Belfast.
| Law Centre (NI) | Buster Cox Fidelma O’Hagan Lois Hamilton Anna Morvern Kerry Lynn Maura Hutchinson (maternity leave) |
124 Donegall street, BT1 2GY | Tel: 028 9024 4401 Fax: 028 9023 6340 |
| Pádraigín Drinan | Barbara Muldoon Ritchie McRitchie |
1st Floor, 5-7 Conway Street, Belfast, BT13 2ED |
Tel: 028 903 22071 Fax: 028 902 40495 |
| Martin Brennan | 117 university street, Belfast BT7 1HP |
Tel: 028 9023 3477 | |
| Higgins Hollywood & Deazley | Stephen Cassidy | 296 Cliftonville Road, Belfast BT14 6LE |
Tel: 028 907 70770 |
| O’Reilly - Stewart | James Turner | 114-116 Royal Avenue, Belfast BT1 1DL |
Tel: 028 903 21000 Fax: 028 903 23003 |
| Madden and Finucane | Stephen Hollywood Sean Rooney |
88 Castle Street, Belfast BT1 1HE |
Tel: 028 902 38007 Fax: 028 904 39276 |
Support
| Bryson One Stop Service for Asylum Seekers | Advice workers | 9 Lower crescent (1st floor | Tel: 028 90439226 Fax: 028 90329539 24h emergency contact: 028 90242025 |
| Legal Aid | Law Society | Belfast | Tel: 028 9024 6441 |
Prison Establishments
| Male Detainees | HMP Maghaberry | 17 Old Road Ballindery Upper Lisburn BT28 2PT Co. Antrim |
Main switch board Tel: 02892 611888 Visits booking Tel: 02892 617070 |
| Female Detainees / Young Offenders | Hydebank Wood Young Offender Centre |
Hydebank Wood YOC Hospital Road Belfast BT8 8NA |
Main switchboard Tel: 028 90 253666 |
Non Governmental Community Organisation
| Refugee Action Group | Anna Morven (Chair) | Law Centre NI | Tel: 028 90244401 |
| Multi-Cultural Resource Centre | 9 Lower crescent Belfast BT7 1NR |
Tel: 028 90244639 | |
| NICRAS Northern Ireland Committee for Refuges and Asylum Seekers | Ronuald welem Moira McCombe |
Ormeau Road | Tel: 028 90246699 |
| Chinese Welfare Association (CWA) | Belfast BT7 1HQ |
Tel: 028 90 288277 | |
| Mandarin Speakers Association | 9 Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 |
Tel: 028 9068 7793 | |
| Indian Community Centre | 86 Clifton Street, Belfast BT13 1AB |
Tel: 028 90 249746 | |
| Belfast Islamic Centre | 38 Wellington Park, Belfast BT9 6DN |
Tel: 028 90 664465 | |
| NICEM | Ascot house 24-31 Shaftesbury Square Belfast BT2 7DB |
Tel: 028 90 238645 | |
| AVID Association for Visitors to Immigration Detainees |
Useful list of contacts for other visitors groups in S Scotland and England |
http://www.aviddetention.org.uk/aviddefault.htm
Box 7 Oxted RH8 0YT Tel: 01883 717275 |
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Human Rights Organisations
| Amnesty International | Patrick Corrigan | 397 Ormeau road Belfast BT7 3GP |
Tel: 028 9064 3000 |
| NI Human Rights Commission | Temple Court, 39 North Street, Belfast BT1 1NA |
028 9024 3987 | |
| Committee on the Administration of Justice | Maggie Beirne Maggie O’Connor |
45/47 Donegall Street Belfast BT1 2BR |
Tel: 02890961122 |
Complaints
| About solicitor | Law Society | 98 Victoria street Belfast BT1 3 JZ |
Tel: 02890 231614 |
| About adviser | OISC The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner |
Complaints Section 6th Floor Fleetbank House 2-6 Salisbury Square London EC4Y 8JX |
Free Helpline Tel: 0845 000 0046 |
Immigration
| Liverpool | Casework | Tel: 0151 237 0012 | |
| Belfast | International airport | Tel: 02894422500 |
