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Jessica Smeaton

Jessica Smeaton

Work Department

Employment, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality

Position

Barrister specialising in all aspects of employment and immigration law

Jessica specialises in employment and immigration and has a busy practice in the tribunals and appeal courts where she acts as both sole and junior counsel.

Her employment practice focuses predominantly on public sector respondents and, in addition to court representation, Jessica advises employers on a day-to-day basis on complex employee relations.

Her immigration practice covers both publicly and privately-funded work. She has appeared as junior counsel on a number of significant matters in recent years, both at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Career

Called 2008, Middle Temple

Panel counsel for the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

Attorney-General panel counsel

Languages

French

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association; Employment Bar Association; Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association.

Education

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice and Université de Montpellier 1, European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, 2008-2009

Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course, 2007-2008

University of Leeds, LLB Law, 2004-2007

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