Individuals and organisations can instruct our immigration law barristers directly for advice and representation relating to their immigration law needs.
Garden Court’s Immigration Team is recognised as the pre-eminent set of barristers in the UK for immigration law advice. We are the only set of barristers awarded the highest ‘Band 1’ status for immigration law advice by the independent Chambers Bar Guide rankings. You can be assured your case will be handled with unrivalled levels of expertise.
Areas of Expertise
- Asylum and international protection
- Family and children immigration
- Private immigration work, acting for individuals from the highest echelons of international politics, business and sport
- National security, terrorism and international armed conflicts
- Human rights
- EU free movement
- Commercial and business immigration (including the Points Based System)
- Sponsor licences for businesses and colleges
- British nationality
- Trafficking
- Deportation
- Third country removals
- Foreign criminal matters
- Immigration detention
- Migrant welfare
instructing our barristers
We know the immigration system from end to end, and have seen every kind of problem. Our barristers have appeared in many of the cases that have shaped immigration law in the UK. All of the leading guides for immigration lawyers have been written by members of our immigration law team.
If your case is really important to you, then you may want to instruct a senior barrister, who is well known in the immigration Tribunal system and has very extensive legal experience. You may alternatively prefer to instruct a ‘junior’, who will still be experienced and knowledgeable, but can handle cases more cost-effectively. We have a barrister to suit every situation, backed-up by a sophisticated support team that helps you every step of the way.
how we can help
- Strategic advice on the evidence and arguments you need to present for an application to the Home Office or Entry Clearance Officer
- Realistic guidance on your options when your last application has failed (including further applications and legal challenges to the existing refusal)
- Reading refusal letters and the underlying applications, and drafting administrative review applications
- Advising on witness statements and supporting documents, providing persuasive grounds of appeal, written arguments for court hearings and the highest quality of representation at appeal hearings
- Obtaining permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal against First-tier
- Tribunal decisions and then providing expert representation at subsequent hearings
- Helping to steer a judicial review application to a realistic conclusion that best fights your corner.
recent successes for our clients
- Overturning refusals based on dishonesty allegations, such as refusals of settlement because the Home Office do not accept your claimed earnings are genuine, including where there are inconsistencies between earnings shown on tax returns and immigration applications
- Accusations that you have cheated in past English language tests
- Omissions in application forms
- Obtaining permanent residence for European Economic Area (EEA) nationals with complex histories of work, self-sufficiency and study
- Obtaining indefinite leave to remain by demonstrating that the continuous residence period had been miscalculated by the decision-maker
- Getting refusals overturned for much-loved family members who have been repeatedly denied visit visas
- Getting visas for entrepreneur applicants whose application had been refused because their business was criticised as not being genuine
- Persuading judges that Tier 1 applications should not have been refused on ‘genuineness’ grounds
- Preventing deportation by putting together a watertight case on links to the UK
- Obtaining a visa for an elderly adult dependent relative with complicated care needs that could not be met in their country of origin
- Demonstrating that there really were “insurmountable obstacles” to relocation abroad for a loving couple whose “partner” application had been refused
- Making further representations that were accepted as a fresh human rights claim, generating a further right of appeal.
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The Team

Stephanie Harrison QC
Year of Call: 1991
Year of Silk: 2013

Laurie Fransman QC
Year of Call: 1979
Year of Silk: 2000

Sonali Naik QC
Year of Call: 1991
Year of Silk: 2018
Amanda Weston QC
Year of Call: 1995
Year of Silk: 2018

Kathryn Cronin
Year of Call: 1980

Peter Jorro
Year of Call: 1986

Rebecca Chapman
Year of Call: 1990

Nicola Braganza
Year of Call: 1992

Valerie Easty
Year of Call: 1992

Navita Atreya
Year of Call: 1994

David Jones
Year of Call: 1994
Duran Seddon
Year of Call: 1994

Grace Brown
Year of Call: 1995
Edward Grieves
Year of Call: 1995

Louise Hooper
Year of Call: 1997

Patrick Lewis
Year of Call: 1997

Adrian Berry
Year of Call: 1998

Ronan Toal
Year of Call: 1999

Sadat Sayeed
Year of Call: 2001

Irena Sabic
Year of Call: 2002

Colin Yeo
Year of Call: 2002

Maha Sardar
Year of Call: 2002

Abigail Smith
Year of Call: 2003

Andrew Eaton
Year of Call: 2004

Christopher McWatters
Year of Call: 2004

Mark Symes
Year of Call: 2004

Greg Ó Ceallaigh
Year of Call: 2006

Alex Grigg
Year of Call: 2007
Kirsten Heaven
Year of Call: 2007

Richard Reynolds
Year of Call: 2007

Jo Wilding
Year of Call: 2007

Helen Foot
Year of Call: 2008

Gemma Loughran
Year of Call: 2008

Ali Bandegani
Year of Call: 2009

Raza Halim
Year of Call: 2009

Gráinne Mellon
Year of Call: 2010

Bijan Hoshi
Year of Call: 2011

Taimour Lay
Year of Call: 2011

David Sellwood
Year of Call: 2012

Miranda Butler
Year of Call: 2013

Ubah Dirie
Year of Call: 2014
