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Barristers

Victoria Laughton

Victoria Laughton

Work Department

Personal ImmigrationBusiness ImmigrationPublic LawCivil Law

Position

Call: 1998

Career

Victoria is a well-established practitioner who specialises in immigration, human rights and public law. She has been described in the directories as “simply superb” with “masterful advocacy”. She acts on behalf of individual claimants, public interest organisations and intervening bodies. She has extensive expertise in civil actions against public bodies, in particular false imprisonment claims against the Home Office, often involving an Equality Act or Modern Slavery element. She has acted in several important cases in this area.

She is recommended by Chambers and Partners in both Immigration and Civil Liberties and Human Rights and the Legal 500 in Immigration .

Victoria is known to enjoy the challenge of complicated legal issues and is regularly sought for advice on matters that are not “run of the mill”. She regularly acts for high-profile individuals, frequently involving cross jurisdictional and/or potential exclusion issues is experienced in complicated business immigration matters in which she often acts at the pre litigation stage in an advisory capacity.

Her public law practice encompasses unlawful detention, trafficking and modern slavery, refusals of family reunion in respect of children or vulnerable adults, challenges to certification decisions and citizenship/nationality refusals.

Languages

French

Memberships

ILPA.

Education

LLB Law with French.

Mentions

London Bar

Immigration (including business immigration)

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Victoria Laughton –One Pump Court ‘Victoria is an extremely impressive advocate. She is exceptionally good on her feet.‘