TRIBUTES TO SONIA BURGESS or SONIA JARDINIERE .

17 November 2010: News:

Sonia Jardiniere (also known as Sonia Burgess) died at approximately 6:30 p.m. on the 25th October 2010 after she was seen to have been pushed under a tube train at King’s Cross Station. Sonia was a transgendered woman. Her alleged assailant who has been charged with murder is an asylum seeker and is also another transgendered woman.

Sonia was the finest immigration lawyer of her generation and was responsible for a number of trailblazing cases. She has also made an enormous, though largely hidden contribution to the integration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people into the mainstream Anglican Church.

On the 7^th July 2010 the UK Supreme Court in a unanimous judgment ruled that homosexual asylum seekers should be granted refugee status if going home would result in them being forced to conceal their sexuality. Sonia posted a report on the case on the Sibyl’s Group Website which can also be accessed via the link below:

LINKS

For the Obituary Published in the Guardian on the 2nd November 2010  Please Click Here

For the address given at Sonia's Funeral in the 17th November 2010 Please Click Here

For the article published in the Observer  on the 9th January 2011 Please Click Here

For the Full Tribute and Sonia's report on the Supreme Court Judgement  Please Click Here