Bindmans LLP

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality.

Senior consultant, Immigration, Asylum and  Nationality.

Since 1984, Alison has specialised in immigration law and associated fields. She has extensive experience in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law.

Her very diverse caseload varies from applications for high net worth individuals, through asylum to children in care. Alison is instructed by individuals, NGOs, Local Authorities and businesses.

She is very experienced in litigating at all levels of the Tribunal and Court system. Alison advises regularly on the interplay of immigration and asylum in extradition matters, and also on applications to INTERPOL/EUROPOL in relation to Red Notices, as well as litigating against the National Crime Agency. She frequently acts as an expert witness in immigration in litigation. Alison has a keen interest in policy issues in the immigration field, and legal aid.

From 1988 Alison was the first solicitor to be employed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants She joined Bindmans in 1994 as the Head of the Immigration team She is Law Society IAAS Accredited Supervisor and Senior Caseworker Alison was a Partner at Bindmans LLP and Joint Head of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality team until she became a Senior Consultant in April 2023

Immigration legal aid lawyer of the year 2023 Appointed Patron of Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association March 2024 Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Alison was a founder member of the Refugee Women’s Legal Group, which in 2000 won the Law Society’s Gazette/Liberty Human Rights Award She was also a founder member and past chair of the Law Society’s Immigration Law Committee Alison is a member of the Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Court steering group Trustee, Immigrants Aid Trust, March 2001 to the present, from 2003 to 2018 Chair of the Trustees Trustee, Law Society Charity, Oct 2006 to the present

Alison studied at Sussex University, Northwestern University USA and the College of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1984.

Recent training courses Alison has provided include:

Home Office Concessions outside the Rules, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, Tier 4 Appeals, UKCISA, London Family law for Immigration Practitioners, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, London Speaker on family and dependants at the MBL business immigration law conference Professional Conduct and Ethics in Immigration Cases, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, London