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Alison Stanley
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Work Department
Immigration.
Position
Partner and head of immigration team. An established leader in the field and star performer in personal immigration. Practice covers all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law, including cross-over between immigration and family law. Instructed by individuals, businesses, NGOs, local authority social services and trade unions.
Career
Trained Winstanley Burgess; qualified in 1984; joined Bindman & Partners (now Bindmans LLP) July 1994; partner May 1995. Lectures and writes regularly. Numerous articles for Law Society’s Gazette, Legal Action Group bulletin, JCWI bulletin, Solicitors Journal and other similar publications. Co-authored (with Professor Michael Rowlands, University College, London) ‘The Rights of Third Country Nationals in the New European Order’, Immigration and Nationality Research and Information Charity (1994); ‘Asylum Seekers – a guide to current legislation’ chapter on vulnerable categories, Resource Information Service (2001); co-authored (with Jane Coker and Nadine Finch) ‘Putting Children First: A Guide to Family law of Immigration Practitioners’, Legal Action Group (2002); co-authored (with Jane Coker, James Gillespie and Sue Shutter) ‘Representation at Immigration Appeals: a best practice guide’, ILPA (2006).
Member
The Law Society; member and past chair of the Law Society’s Immigration Law Committee; Immigration Law Practitioner’s Association; Refugee Women’s Legal Group.
Education
University of Sussex (BA Hons); College of Law (CPE and Law Society Finals).
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights; Immigration