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Lisa Giovannetti KC

Lisa Giovannetti KC

Position

Public law, asylum and immigration, human rights, local government. Cases include: Januzi v SSHD (HL) [2006] 2 WLR 397; Westminster City Council v Morris (CA) [2006] 1 WLR 505; GH (Iraq) v SSHD (CA) [2006] Imm AR 19; Gezer v SSHD [2005] HRLR7; R (Ullah) v SSHD (HL) [2006] 2 AC 323.

Career

Called 1990; Gray’s Inn; ‘A’ Panel Counsel to the Crown since 2004. Publications of note include the Immigration appeals section of EMIS looseleaf ‘Civil Appeals’.

Memberships

ALBA.

Education

St Aloysius Convent School; London (LLB Hons); Inns of Court School of Law (1989).

Mentions

London Bar

Immigration (including business immigration)

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Lisa Giovannetti KC –39 Essex Chambers ‘A fabulous advocate. Trustworthy, personable and highly persuasive on even the most impossible legal arguments. A formidable opponent and a towering member of the Bar.’