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Miranda has a broad public law practice spanning immigration, human rights, detention and public inquiries.

Miranda has a broad public law practice spanning immigration, human rights, detention and public inquiries.

Notable highlights of Miranda’s practice include:

• Acting for Women for Refugee Women and a former detainee in the Court of Appeal, challenging the lack of in-person legal assistance at Derwentside IRC, led by Alex Goodman (R (Women for Refugee Women and SPM v SSHD [2023] EWCA Civ 764).

• Acting for the Project for the Registration of Child as British Citizens in its Supreme Court challenge to the Home Secretary’s mandatory fee of £1,012 for children to register as British citizens (R (PRCBC & O) v SSHD [2022] UKSC 3).

• Representing a victim of trafficking in her Court of Appeal challenge to a negative conclusive grounds decision (R (LM) v SSHD [2022] EWCA Civ 977).

• Representing the claimant in a systemic claim concerning the arrangements made by the Home Secretary for the support of victims of trafficking (EOG and KTT v SSHD [2022] EWCA Civ 306).

Miranda is a Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge, sitting in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber on a part time basis alongside her practice. She is one of the youngest Deputy Upper Tribunal Judges ever appointed.

Prior to joining Landmark, Miranda worked as the Judicial Assistant to Lord Kerr JSC at the Supreme Court. She has also worked at the European Court of Human Rights.

She has worked on both the Infected Blood Inquiry and Covid Inquiry, led by Fiona Scolding KC.

Miranda is ranked in both public law and immigration:

• In Legal 500 2023, Miranda is ranked in Band 3 for Administrative Law and Human Rights and Band 4 for immigration: “She is very intelligent, able to quickly analyse the strength and weaknesses of a case and gives expert guidance on the necessary case preparation groundwork. She has an encyclopaedic knowledge of immigration law and she is an extremely skilled and talented advocate.”; “Miranda is brilliant. She is level headed and brings clarity to complex cases. A junior with excellent judgment.”

• In Chambers and Partners 2024, Miranda is ranked in Band 4 for Administrative and Public law and in Band 3 for Immigration: “She will go far; she is very hard-working and smart”; “Miranda is determined, and good at drafting and exploring new areas, no matter how complex it is.”

Miranda was shortlisted for ‘Legal Aid Barrister of the Year’ at the 2024 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. In 2023, she was also shortlisted for the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards ‘Immigration 'Junior of the Year' and for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year’s ‘Newcomer of the Year’ award in 2020. In 2022 Miranda co-founded the Ukraine Advice Project, which provides free legal advice for those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. The Ukraine Advice Project has won numerous awards including the Pro Bono Initiative of the Year at 2022 Advocate Awards.

• Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent), Kaplan Law School

• Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City Law School

• MPhil in Classics (Distinction), King’s College, University of Cambridge

• MPhil Scholarship, Classics Department, Cambridge University (2010)

• MA in Classics (First Class), King’s College, University of Cambridge

• Pegasus Scholarship (2017)

• Administrative Law Bar Association Scholarship (2015)

• Inner Temple Major Scholarship (2012)

• King’s College Scholarship, King’s College, Cambridge (2009)

Awards

• Shortlisted for the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2023 Immigration 'Junior of the Year'

• Pro Bono Initiative of the Year at 2022 Advocate Awards (Ukraine Advice Project)

• Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year – Newcomer of the Year finalist (2020)

• Selected for Frank Knox Fellowship (not taken up) (2015)

• Times Law Award Finalist (2014)

• Inner Temple Exhibition (2011)

• Henry Arthur Thomas Award, King’s College, Cambridge (2008)

Memberships

Appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Panel of Counsel

• Administrative Law Bar Association

• Immigration Law Practitioners Association

• London School of Economics (Visiting Tutor)

• Public Law Project

• Refugee Legal Support: Athens

Publications

• The Impact of Paposhvili v Belgium: a country study (Journal of Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Law

• AAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department: A Practitioner’s Critique. European Human Rights Law Review, June 2023

• Human Rights in Criminal law (contributor)

• Macdonald’s Immigration Law and Practice (10th edition), contributor

• Healthcare and medical cases in immigration law: a practical guide for practitioners (with Rebecca Chapman) (2021)

• Home Office policy on leave to remain for potential trafficking victims found unlawful (Free Movement blog, December 2020)

• Athens Legal Support (Counsel Magazine, July 2017)

• Limbo: a virtual experience of waiting for asylum (The Guardian, July 2017, contributor)

• Athens Refugee Legal Support Project: what’s happening on the ground (Free Movement blog, June 2017)

• The EU-Turkey refugee deal only succeeded in one thing (New Statesman, December 2016, co-author)

• The constitutional implications of Brexit (Solicitors’ Journal, July 2016)