Katherine Soroya

Katherine specialises in immigration and family law. She is recognised for fearlessly advancing her clients’ interests and is committed to promoting access to justice. Katherine has extensive experience representing clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and frequently acts for survivors of domestic abuse, victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, and individuals at risk of gender-based violence.

Katherine has a strong immigration and public law practice. She regularly appears in the Immigration Tribunals, representing clients in all areas of immigration and public law. She has particular expertise in refugee law and is known for her ability to work effectively with vulnerable clients. Beyond her practice, Katherine contributes regularly to the legal blog Free Movement, having published articles such as ‘the support system for migrant victims of trafficking’ and ‘a guide to making fresh asylum and human rights claims’. Katherine is also an expert author for LexisNexis where she provides practice notes such as ‘Procedure in the First-tier Tribunal’. Katherine has exceptional client care having joined chambers from Turpin Miller LLP where she led a team working with asylum claimants and she also has experience of the charity sector having run legal clinics with Migrants Organise.

In her family practice, Katherine is regularly instructed to appear before judges at all levels. She represents clients in private and public children cases, matters with an international element, and injunctive proceedings. Katherine is a compassionate and dedicated advocate who supports clients from the first hearing through to complex, multi-day final hearings, including cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse or where an intermediary is required. She welcomes publicly funded clients.