Misha Nayak-Oliver

Overview

Misha Nayak-Oliver is in the first six of her pupillage under the supervision of Tom Royston and Lucy Mair.

Before coming to the bar, Misha was a paralegal in group litigation at Leigh Day. She worked with charities and non-governmental organisations to scrutinise government policies and practices, and primary and secondary legislation. She delivered pro bono Lawyers Against Poverty legal information sessions on public law, social welfare, housing and homelessness, and immigration and asylum.

At Fair Trials, Misha worked on strategic litigation and legal research concerning the right to a fair trial, extradition, freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, access to counsel, pre-trial detention, plea-bargaining, and ensuring a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal. With Just Fair, she drafted submissions on socio-economic rights, Equality Act 2010 and Human Rights Act 1998 on behalf of civil society members before UK Parliament Committees, UN special rapporteurs, UN experts and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

She acted as Co-Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on No Recourse to Public Funds. She delivered speeches on panels and at events with the European Network on Statelessness, Housing Rights Watch FEANTSA and Amnesty International UK. For inquiries and consultations, she drafted joint briefings on social welfare and discrimination with Safety4Sisters, the Latin American Women’s Rights Service, Praxis, National Pensioners Convention and Child Poverty Action Group.

Misha volunteered with AMICUS, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, Centre Suisse pour la Défense des Droits des Migrants and the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union.