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Samantha Knights
Position
Barrister specialising in immigration and asylum, civil liberties, administrative and public law and commercial litigation including arbitration. Recent and important cases include: Al Sirri/DD (Afghanistan) v SSHD, UKSC (exclusion under Refugee Convention); NS v SSHD, CJEU (Dublin Regulation transfers and EU charter); Le Geyt v UK, ECtHR (no separate provision for female juvenile offenders in Jersey); SFO v Al Zayat, CA (Crim) (proceeds of crime); Rottenberg v LB Hackney, Div Ct (noise nuisance and Art. 9 ECHR).
Career
Called 1996; Lincoln’s Inn.
Languages
Working knowledge of French; basic Russian.
Memberships
Bar Human Rights Committee; Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association.
Education
Somerville College, Oxford (1993 BA Hons); City University, London (1994 CPE); London School of Economics (2004 LLM).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Immigration (including business immigration)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Samantha Knights KC – Matrix Chambers ‘Samantha’s approach is clear and sensible, but she also is imaginative and seeks to identify novel approaches which might assist the client.’
Matrix Chambers covers the full breadth of work and courts, with particular strengths in trafficking, modern slavery, immigration systems, and publicly-funded work more generally, while sports and business immigration have been a growing focus for the set. The set continues to engage with high-profile litigation, with Raza Husain KC, amidst his wider practice in refugee and HNW individuals asylum claims, has been leading a team in relation to the judicial review around the government’s Rwanda policy; Jonathan Glasson KC acting on behalf of the government in respect of the Shamima Begum appeal; and Christopher Buttler KC being a leading counsel challenging the Home Secretary’s pushback’s policy regarding the small boats in the Channel. Hugh Southey KC and Samantha Knights KC have been active in relation to work around exclusion on the basis of national security and EU asylum claims respectively.
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Samantha Knights KC –Matrix Chambers ‘Samantha’s approach is clear and sensible, but she also seeks to identify novel approaches which might assist the client.’