Niamh Fegan

Prior to starting pupillage on 1^st April 2025, Niamh was Legal Officer at the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA), a registered charity which advocates on behalf of its members for improvements to immigration, asylum, and nationality laws and policies. Her particular focus was on access to justice and due process. She used written and oral advocacy, including in meetings with senior government officials and as part of the Ministry of Justice’s Review of Civil Legal Aid, to influence law and policies in these areas. She also co-ordinated the Strategic Legal Advice Committee, so has a good network of key actors in strategic litigation relating to immigration, and a robust understanding of strategic legal challenges.

Before ILPA, Niamh was an OISC Immigration Caseworker and worked on a broad range of immigration matters. She has also volunteered at Migrants Organise, providing casework support for their outreach programme.

Niamh obtained a first-class Law degree from the University of Leeds, where she also obtained an academic award for her exceptional attainment. As part of her undergraduate studies, she spent a year completing a Erasmus programme at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, focussing on human rights and migration issues through a European lens.

She studied the Bar Course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, having been awarded an Exhibition Scholarship and the Philip Teichman Award from Inner Temple. She obtained two awards during her bar studies for her excellent performance, including for attaining the highest marks of the cohort in Conference.