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Immigration

The Immigration Team provides advice, representation and advocacy on all aspects of personal immigration and nationality law, including refugee/asylum claims, human rights claims, EU free movement law and the EU Settlement Scheme, family reunion, investors, students and other aspects of the points based system, general refusal grounds and challenges to unlawful detention. We also advise on all aspects of business and commercial immigration, including sponsor compliance and challenges to the revocation of sponsor licences and challenges to civil penalties in relation to illegal working.
Members of the Team are experts on Brexit and are able to provide practical advice on its effect on UK immigration laws and individual personal and business immigration cases. Team members appear regularly in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, as well as in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, the Administrative Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. We also work regularly in the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Team members are specialists in a wide range of related areas of law, such as crime, social security, community care, housing, mental health, employment, education, children, extradition and prisoners. We are able to accept instructions directly from members of the public in appropriate cases, without the need for a solicitor, and more information can be found on our public access page.
  • Article 8 ECHR – Family & Private Life
  • Asylum, Humanitarian Protection & Discretionary Leave
  • EEA Law
  • Points Based System
  • Right of Abode
  • Citizenship
  • Visit Visas
  • Removal
  • Deportation
  • Detention
  • Bail
  • Apperals
  • Administrative Reviews
  • Judicial Reviews

Employment

Our Employment is a dedicated group of specialists covering all areas of employment and discrimination law.

This includes discrimination within the context of transport, education and housing. we are regularly instructed to act on behalf of employees and employers in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment-related litigation, from providing expert advice on compliance and drafting contractual terms to representation before the Courts and Employment Tribunals in the UK and overseas on issues such as restrictive covenants and injunctions to protect business interests.

We have extensive experience in public and private-sector case work at all levels.

We accept Direct Access instructions from in house counsel, other professionals and members of public.

  • All aspects of discrimination law within the Equality Act 2010 including discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion and belief, marital status and gender reassignment
  • Equal pay
  • Unfair dismissal
  • Wrongful dismissal and other issues concerning employment contracts
  • Whistleblowing (including claims for interim relief
  • Employee competition, directors’ duties and injunctive relief
  • TUPE
  • Partnership disputes
  • Drafting and enforcing restrictive covenants
  • Employment rights including status, remuneration and fringe benefits
  • Public law proceedings related to employment law and discrimination
  • Sports and professional disciplinary tribunal work

CIVIL LITIGATION

We provide considerable expertise and substantial experience in a wide range of Civil Litigation especially where there is interaction with civil and other jurisdictions such as in Trusts of Land Act matters and also in the Court of Protection.

Our members are ideally placed to represent vulnerable adults and are instructed in, for example, applications under the Mental Capacity Act and those involving deprivation of liberty as well as the Court’s powers of decision-making over an individual’s financial and other arrangements.

Chambers offers expertise in contractual disputes, ecclesiastical matters, general property litigation including landlord and tenant, boundary disputes, easements, town and country planning, environmental protection issues, undue influence, wills, probate and estate administration.

Family Law and Children

As well as being specialists in general Family law, Our Barristers are acutely aware of the needs of separating parents who are going through the delicate process of formalising arrangements concerning the care of their children. Members are able to deal with these often very difficult proceedings in a sensitive and professional manner. In addition, our team has extensive experience of dealing with individuals seeking protection from domestic violence. Chambers prides itself on its breadth and depth of experience and aims to provide continuity of representation whenever possible.

  • Removal from the jurisdiction
  • Section 8 of the Children Act 1989 orders (including Child Arrangement Orders)
  • Serious Allegations of Abuse or Domestic Violence
  • Shared and Co-Parenting
  • Separate representation of children
  • Special Guardianship
  • Adoption
  • Child Abduction
  • Domestic Abuse, including Domestic Violence
  • Family Law Act applications (Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders
  • Internal relocation