United Kingdom > London Bar > Immigration (including business immigration)
Index of tables
- Immigration – Leading Sets
- Immigration – Leading Silks
- Immigration – New Silks
- Immigration – Leading Juniors
Immigration – Leading Sets
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Mitre House Chambers Francis Gilbert - 1 Pump Court
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Immigration – Leading Silks
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- Laurie Fransman QC Garden Court Chambers
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- Michael Beloff QC Blackstone Chambers
- Monica Carss-Frisk QC Blackstone Chambers
- Michael Fordham QC Blackstone Chambers
- Manjit Gill QC No5 Chambers
- Raza Husain QC Matrix Chambers
- Sibghat Kadri QC 6 King’s Bench Walk
- Steven Kovats QC Thirty Nine Essex Street
- Nigel Pleming QC Thirty Nine Essex Street
- Mark Shaw QC Blackstone Chambers
- Hugh Southey QC Tooks Chambers
- Robin Tam QC Temple Garden Chambers
Immigration – New Silks
Immigration – Leading Juniors
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- Simon Cox Doughty Street Chambers
- Nadine Finch Garden Court Chambers
- Stephanie Harrison Garden Court Chambers
- Peter Jorro Garden Court Chambers
- Duran Seddon Garden Court Chambers
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- Rebecca Chapman Tooks Chambers
- Kathryn Cronin Garden Court Chambers
- Ramby de Mello No5 Chambers
- Laura Dubinsky Doughty Street Chambers
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Eric Fripp
Mitre House Chambers - Kate Gallafent Blackstone Chambers
- Mark Henderson Doughty Street Chambers
- David Jones Garden Court Chambers
- Satvinder Juss 3 Hare Court
- Samantha Knights Matrix Chambers
- Abid Mahmood No5 Chambers
- Joseph Middleton Doughty Street Chambers
- John Walsh Doughty Street Chambers
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- Mahmud Al-Rashid No5 Chambers
- Danny Bazini No5 Chambers
- Charles Bourne 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square
- Tim Buley Landmark Chambers
- Martin Chamberlain Brick Court Chambers
- Jane Collier Blackstone Chambers
- Guy Goodwin-Gill Blackstone Chambers
- Glen Hodgetts Tooks Chambers
- Cathryn McGahey Temple Garden Chambers
- Edward Nicholson No5 Chambers
- Andrew O’Connor Temple Garden Chambers
- Parishil Patel Thirty Nine Essex Street
- Margaret Phelan Renaissance Chambers
- Joanne Rothwell No5 Chambers
- Toby Vanhegan Arden Chambers
- Galina Ward Landmark Chambers
- Amanda Weston Tooks Chambers
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- Navtej Singh Ahluwalia Garden Court Chambers
- Nick Armstrong Matrix Chambers
- Adrian Berry Garden Court Chambers
- Doron Blum 1 Pump Court
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Allan Briddock
Mitre House Chambers - Grace Brown Tooks Chambers
- Parosha Chandran 1 Pump Court
- S Chelvan No5 Chambers
- Graham Denholm 1 Pump Court
- Rory Dunlop Thirty Nine Essex Street
- Kate Grange Thirty Nine Essex Street
- Phil Haywood Doughty Street Chambers
- Christopher Jacobs Landmark Chambers
- Ranjiv Khubber 1 Pump Court
- Tublu Krishnendu Mukherjee Doughty Street Chambers
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Victoria Laughton
Mitre House Chambers - Alasdair Mackenzie Doughty Street Chambers
- Peter Morris Doughty Street Chambers
- Declan O’Callaghan Landmark Chambers
- Mark O’Connor Landmark Chambers
- Robert Palmer Monckton Chambers
- Naina Patel Blackstone Chambers
- Alan Payne 5 Essex Court
- Alison Pickup Doughty Street Chambers
- Sadat Sayeed Garden Court Chambers
- Abigail Smith Tooks Chambers
- Mark Symes Garden Court Chambers
The ‘first class’ Garden Court Chambers houses barristers with ‘a fantastic range of depth and experience’. In particular, Laurie Fransman QC remains ‘a god of nationality law, with unmatched knowledge of the area’, and he and Ian Macdonald QC are highly admired by peers and clients alike. Among the juniors, Stephanie Harrison is ‘very knowledgeable’ and competent in all areas of EU law; Nadine Finch is ‘a reliable and unflustered collaborator’; Peter Jorro has ‘intellectual vigour and is quick to get to the important issues’; Duran Seddon is ‘very knowledgeable and offers practical solutions’; and David Jones’ has a ‘highly technical mind and encyclopaedic knowledge of asylum law’. Clients also benefit from Kathryn Cronin’s ‘useful combination of childcare and immigration expertise’; Navtej Singh Ahluwalia’s ‘strong communication skills’; and Sadat Sayeed’s ‘determined attitude’.
Hailed as a ‘very professional and organised set’, Blackstone Chambers reaps praise for its immigration expertise. Lord Pannick QC, Michael Beloff QC and Michael Fordham QC are well respected in the field. Monica Carss-Frisk QC ‘cuts through confusion with great elegance’, and Mark Shaw QC is also highly regarded. Leading juniors include Kate Gallafent, Jane Collier, Guy Goodwin-Gill and Naina Patel.
Noted for its ‘amiable and helpful clerks’, Doughty Street Chambers ‘always strives to achieve the best outcome for its clients’. New silk Judith Farbey QC acted on the English UK judicial review case, and produces ‘killer legal arguments’. Simon Cox has ‘outstanding intellect’, and Laura Dubinsky is ‘committed and genuinely cares for her clients’. Mark Henderson is involved in the landmark EU case of Saeedi, and Joseph Middleton receives impressive solicitor recommendations. John Walsh is ‘very good on deportation cases’; Phil Haywood is ‘brilliantly intellectual’; and Alasdair Mackenzie is ‘thorough and meticulous’.
At Thirty Nine Essex Street, Steven Kovats QC and Nigel Pleming QC are the leading immigration silks. Kovats took silk in 2010 and acts for the government in a large number of immigration cases. In 2011, three further immigration juniors took silk, namely Lisa Giovannetti QC, praised for her ‘sharp wit and logical mind’, Eleanor Grey QC and Jenni Richards QC. Parishil Patel appeared in RS (Zimbabwe) v SSHD, and is also recommended.
Clients appreciate the dynamism at Matrix Chambers, where the clerks are ‘well organised and have a realistic approach and commercial appreciation’. The ‘well-prepared’ Rabinder Singh QC ‘demolishes his opponents’ arguments, which often look childlike in comparison’, and the ‘razor-sharp’ Raza Husain QC is a ‘star performer – both knowledgeable and tenacious’. Of the juniors, Samantha Knights has ‘great attention to detail and tremendous tenacity’; and Nick Armstrong is ‘able to identify solutions that would often not occur to others’.
At Tooks Chambers, new silk Hugh Southey QC is ‘a brave and creative advocate, with excellent tactical judgement’. Rebecca Chapman is ‘very sensitive to clients’ concerns, and quick thinking’; Glen Hodgetts is ‘extremely thorough and will often go the extra mile in case preparation’; and Amanda Weston ‘rapidly identifies the issues and finds novel solutions’. Grace Brown has ‘deep expertise’, and Abigail Smith ‘remains amazingly calm in a crisis and instinctively takes the right course of action’.
At No5 Chambers, Manjit Gill QC is the go-to silk for immigration. Ramby de Mello, Abid Mahmood and Mahmud Al-Rashid are highly regarded in the field of national security, and Danny Bazini is well known for his judicial review work. Edward Nicholson has an ‘affable approach which puts clients at ease’.
Landmark Chambers is commended for its value for money and enthusiasm for immigration law. Tim Buley is ‘extraordinarily bright’ and Galina Ward is ‘incredibly gifted on her feet and popular with clients’. Other notable practitioners include Declan O’Callaghan (‘extremely diligent and conscientious’); Mark O’Connor (who has ‘second-to-none knowledge of immigration’); and Christopher Jacobs (‘an extremely safe pair of hands’).
At 1 Pump Court, Parosha Chandran has specialist knowledge in human trafficking cases, and Doron Blum has ‘an exceptional ability to anticipate arguments from judges’. Graham Denholm and Ranjiv Khubber are also highly regarded.
Also recommended are Sibghat Kadri QC of 6 King’s Bench Walk; Robin Tam QC at Temple Garden Chambers; Jeremy Johnson QC of 5 Essex Court; and the ‘highly committed’ Tim Eicke QC at Essex Court Chambers, who took silk in 2011.