Richmond Chambers Immigration Barristers

Immigration

Immigration Barrister

Catherine has a busy practice working with business and individual clients across the full range of immigration, nationality, asylum and human rights law.  Catherine has significant experience assisting clients to make applications and challenge refusals in the business and investment categories. She has worked with many of our clients in the sole representative, ECAA, Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) and Tier 1 (Investor) categories, as well as the Innovator and Start-up categories.

Catherine frequently advises on the Global Business Mobility routes and is well-placed to advise and assist growing businesses obtain Sponsor Licences to sponsor Skilled Workers from overseas, and often works with start-up companies as well as charities, to ensure that licences are maintained and sponsors comply with their duties.

She also regularly assists talented individuals gain endorsement and move to the UK – she has worked with musicians, dancers, actors, fashion designers, architects, artists, digital technology specialists, academics and more to secure endorsements under the UK’s Talent routes.

Catherine has particular expertise in immigration matters relating to EU free movement law, including retained rights and derivative rights under EU law. Her doctoral research explored the extent of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s development of the concept of Union citizenship in relation to family reunification – with particular focus on the potential of the Surinder Singh route and subsequent case-law. Catherine has harnessed her academic background in practice and has assisted many individuals and families with their cases under the EEA Regulations, and of course the EU Settlement Scheme.

Catherine also advises and works with clients across a broad spectrum of other immigration and nationality matters, ranging from family migration under Appendix FM, settlement applications, human rights claims and British citizenship.

Catherine has successfully challenged decisions of the Secretary of State for the Home Department and Entry Clearance Officers through preparing appeals for human rights and asylum claims and applications for administrative and judicial review, with specific interest and experience in challenging Ankara refusals, complex EU matters and sponsor licence revocations.  Catherine regularly appears in both the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal.

Catherine is regularly called upon to write for Lexis PSL to give her opinion on developments in immigration law and she frequently publishes blogs on Chambers’ Knowledge Centre.

Bar Council of England & Wales

Immigration Law Practitioners Association

Bar Professional Training Course, Northumbria University (awarded Dean’s Award)

PhD in EU Law, University College, Durham University (awarded PhD scholarship)

MA in International Studies (Distinction), Ustinov College, Durham University

BA (Hons) in Law and Political Sciences, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge