JACQUELINE VICTOR- MAZELI
Year of call: 1997
Jacqueline was called to the Bar in 1997 and initially had a common law practice. She now specialises in immigration, asylum & human rights. She is experienced in the areas of asylum, Articles 2, 3 & 8 of the ECHR, EEA Law, deception, deportation, marriages of convenience, PBS and TOEIC appeals. She also appears in Children Act matters in the Family Courts. She is joint head of chambers and a pupil supervisor at 3 Bolt Court Chambers. Jacqueline is also a Middle Temple pupil mentor.
In 2005 she was seconded to the Crown Prosecutions Service as a Senior Crown Prosecutor where she was responsible for providing advice to police on charging, evidence, reviewing files, and conducting trials in court. In 2007 she was seconded to the Treasury Solicitor’s Office where she was responsible for the conduct of immigration judicial review casework on behalf of the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate. She then worked as part of the Judicial review team based at the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate tasked with dealing with expedited cases. In 2008 she was seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions as a Senior Prosecutor where she was a key player in a team responsible for the conduct of prosecutions mainly related to benefit fraud. In 2016 she was seconded to the Home Office as a Presenting Officer (Advocate) in the Immigration & Asylum Chamber. In 2018 she was seconded to the Home Office to conduct reviews of immigration and asylum appeals and advise on prospects of success.
Jacqueline is public access qualified. She holds rights of audience in all courts in England & Wales.
Jacqueline has given lectures on the Legal Network Television for the College of Law.
Jacqueline qualified as a civil and commercial mediator with the Society of Mediators, London, in May 2019. She now volunteers with the Society of Mediators Free Mediation Project providing free mediations to litigants at the Royal Courts of Justice.
She is a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, and Society of Mediators.