Anita Vasisht > Wilson Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Wilson Solicitors LLP
697 HIGH ROAD
TOTTENHAM
LONDON
N17 8AD
England

Living Wage

Anita Vasisht photo

Work Department

Immigration department.

Position

Newly appointed head of Wilsons’ immigration department, Anita leads our national security team working on cases involving closed material procedures before SIAC and the administrative court. 

She also has vast experience in all areas of immigration work and has specialist level knowledge of asylum cases from North Africa, the Middle East (in particular Palestinian and Syrian cases) and the former Soviet republics.

Recently, Anita represented Syrian human rights activist and Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning film maker, Waad Al-Kateab, who fled Syria fearing for her life.

Career highlights include representing high profile Algerian former billionaire Rafik Khelifa in the first ever extradition case involving Algeria.

Anita’s work has taken her to Moscow, Beirut, Tunis, Istanbul, Frankfurt and Beirut. Anita has also spent time in the southern Lebanon Palestinian refugee camps.

Career

1993-95 legal office at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat; 1995-97 trainee solicitor; 1997-2005 assistant solicitor at Wilson & Co; 2005-present partner at Wilson Solicitors LLP. 2020 head of the immigration department

Memberships

Immigration Law Practitioners Association.

Education

Roan School for Girls, Greenwich; University of Surrey (1992 Law Society Finals; 1990 BSc (hons) French, Russian and Law).

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Immigration: personal

Praised as ‘a leading firm in a highly competitive and fast-changing sector‘, Wilson Solicitors LLP has a well-established personal immigration offering. In addition to an exceptional practice in the field of asylum, human rights and deportation work, the group has considerable expertise representing EU nationals applying for settled status for themselves and family members, as well as handling family visa applications, citizenship issues and Global Talent visas. Anita Vasisht leads the group, supported by Ana Gonzalez, a ‘wonderful solicitor and advocate‘ who specialises in all aspects of asylum and personal immigration, and Muhunthan Paramesvaran. Matthew Davies, who has a broad personal immigration practice, is also a key contact, and senior consultant Michael Hanley also contributes to the practice.

London > Employment > Immigration: human rights

(Hall of Fame)

Anita Vasisht – Wilson Solicitors LLP

Providing ‘large-scale representation in immigration and asylum cases at consistently high quality’, Wilson Solicitors LLP is a reputed group of immigration lawyers in the field of asylum, human rights and deportation. The group has notable expertise in detention issues and cases before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, and represents a broad range of clients, including victims of trafficking and modern slavery and asylum seekers from countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan and Ukraine. The practice is led by ‘insightful and strategicAnita Vasisht, an expert in complex asylum and national security cases, and supported by Ana Gonzalez, who specialises in all aspects of asylum and personal immigration, and Muhunthan Paramesvaran, who regularly litigates in the higher courts. The group also includes Matthew Davies, who focuses on complex immigration issues, ‘true trailblazerMichael Hanley, who specialises in complex nationality work as well as work at the intersection of immigration and family law, and ‘strategic lawyerMarcela Navarrete, head of the firm’s detention service. Chris McKendry is key contact for political and national security cases.