As an internationally-recognised expert on LGBT rights, activism, social policy and cultural norms (especially as they relate to China), I’m an experienced expert witness in the US and UK. I have given testimonies for immigration and asylum cases that involve issues such as same-sex marriage & partnership, anti-gay employment discrimination, social stigma, same-sex parenting, stateless children of LGBT parents, citizenship, and rights of abode (hukou), filial piety, family planning regulations (e.g., ‘one-child policy’) and eldercare provision.
Recent experience & case outcomes
Prepared an expert witness report in the appeal of a gay Chinese man, engaged to a British man, denied right to remain (First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, London); outcome: appeal granted, October 2019
Prepared an expert witness report and gave telephonic testimony in a US asylum petition of a gay man subjected to ‘conversion therapy’ in China and threats to his life by his father (Detroit Immigration Court); outcome: asylum granted, April 2020
Prepared an expert witness report in the application for British citizenship for a ‘state-less’ infant, born to two lesbian women with Chinese nationality in the UK (First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, London); outcome: awaiting decision
Gave testimony in a wrongful death case of a Chinese national, drawing upon expertise in cultural norms of filial piety, family planning regulations (‘one-child policy’) and eldercare provision in China (Laganside Courts, Belfast); outcome: damages awarded, June 2018
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