Recent work highlights

• Securing ILR at discretion for PBS dependants who could no longer apply on the basis of dependency due to bereavement, despite their not reaching five years’ residence at the time of the application.
• Advising on judicial review litigation in the Administrative Court on the eligibility for British overseas citizenship for a class of people born in the territory that was the Aden Protectorate and is now the Republic of Yemen.
• Supporting a large business with a cohort of new hires, including increasing certificate of sponsorship allocation and a number of separate applications, and working with competing deadlines.
• Advising on pre-action and judicial review litigation on the Home Office’s refusals to reunite a number of separated asylum-seeking children with family in the UK in the wake of the UK leaving the EU.
• Obtaining indefinite leave to remain for a long-term overstayer on a radically different route than the one proposed by the client, on the basis of domestic abuse and compassionate factors.
• Securing asylum in the face of a complex and disadvantageous case history which featured a number of exclusionary aspects.