
No5 Barristers' Chambers
England
Barristers

Jessica Smeaton
- Phone0345 210 5555
- Email[email protected]
- Social
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