Anthony Metzer KC
Year of Call: 1987 QC: 2013 Call on 020 7353 6802
Anthony Metzer KC is a highly regarded silk known for his committed and forensically-detailed approach to his practice. He specialises in crime; immigration; Claimant civil actions against the...
Matthew Sowerby
Year of Call: 1987 Call on
Matthew Sowerby specialises in Human Rights and Immigration Law.
His clients can expect to obtain comprehensive, realistic and practical advice and representation in relation to any aspect of...
Michael Murphy
Year of Call: 1992 Call on
Michael was called to the Bar in 1992 and is a member of the Inner Temple.
Throughout his career at the Bar, Michael has been instructed in many areas of law, including family, crime and...
Paul Richardson
Year of Call: 1993 Call on
Paul Richardson is a highly successful immigration barrister.
Paul has 27 years of experience and is a seasoned advocate and expert tactician. He has a high success rate and a reputation for...
Rajesh Rai
Year of Call: 1993 Call on
Rajesh is meticulous in his preparation, practical in the advice he gives and bold in his advocacy. He is a well-regarded and experienced barrister who has practised immigration, human rights and...
Reuben Solomon
Year of Call: 1993 Call on 020 7353 6802
Reuben is an established public law practitioner, who specialises in the field of immigration, asylum, nationality, human rights and animal rights law.
Reuben undertakes cases on both a publicly and...
Pearl Yong
Year of Call: 1993 Call on 020 7353 6802
Pearl was an Independent Financial Adjudicator and Cost Assessor, and reviewed funding decisions, in immigration and family appeals to the Tribunal, Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and the...
Navaz Bustani
Year of Call: 1995 Call on 020 7353 6802
Navaz specialises in all areas of Immigration and Nationality Law, and Human Rights within the immigration context.
Charlotte Bayati
Year of Call: 1995 Call on 020 7353 6802
Charlotte practises exclusively in immigration, asylum and nationality law at all levels of the tribunal and higher courts. Charlotte is recommended in the Legal 500 2025 edition in the highest Tier...
Guy Davison
Year of Call: 1998 Call on
Guy Davison has undertaken work in relation to all aspects of Human Rights and Immigration Law. Guy has been recognised by the Legal 500 2018 edition as a Leading Junior in Band 4...
Catherine Bexson
Year of Call: 1999 Call on 0207 353 6802
Catherine was Called to the Bar in 1999 and is an established practitioner specialising in Public and International Human Rights Law. She has over twenty years of experience in the First Tier and...
Melissa Millin
Year of Call: 1999 Call on 020 7353 6802
Melissa was called in 1999 and is a member of Grays Inn. She commenced pupillage and initial tenancy at 3 Temple Gardens. Melissa initially specialised in crime but has been accepting family cases...
Soraya Pascoe
Year of Call: 1999 Call on
Soraya’s main areas of practice are family law (public and private, both children matters and finance), immigration and public law. She has expertise in matters concerning international,...
Joseph Plowright
Year of Call: 1999 Call on
Joe has considerable experience in representing clients before the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He is a fee paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal...
Amarjit Seehra
Year of Call: 1999 Call on 020 7353 6802
Amarjit is a specialist immigration practitioner and a senior member of the Immigration and Public Law team with nearly 20 years’ experience at the Bar.
Throughout her career, Amarjit has been...
Alexis Slatter
Year of Call: 1999 Call on 020 7353 6802
Alexis is a Public Law practitioner specialising in Immigration and Asylum Law. He has been consistently ranked as a leading junior in the Legal 500 where he is described as follows:
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Jan Doerfel
Year of Call: 2000 Call on
Jan is an immigration barrister with 20 years of experience in all aspects of asylum, immigration and human rights law. He is extremely passionate about getting justice for his clients and has earned...
Dr Marcia Persaud
Year of Call: 2000 Call on
Marcia is a rounded common law barrister, who is an active advocate in the High Court and County Court.
Despite her obvious interest in Clinical/Medical Negligence litigation, Marcia’s main...
Sanaz Saifolahi
Year of Call: 2000 Call on 020 7353 6802
Sanaz is ranked as a leading junior within Legal 500 2025 edition (Band 2- immigration) and within Chambers & Partners 2025 edition (Band 3 -immigration). She is an established practitioner within...
Rita Sethi
Year of Call: 2000 Call on 020 7353 6802
Rita's motivation for a career in Law arose from her lengthy campaigning background on equality and anti-discrimination issues.
Rita is a former Solicitor, having completed her solicitors training...
Shahnawaz Khan
Year of Call: 2001 Call on
Shahnawaz Khan’s practice is divided into three areas: Criminal Defence, Immigration and Landlord & Tenancy.
Shahnawaz hopes to supplement his practice by undertaking pro bono work. He is...
Jane Heybroek
Year of Call: 2003 Call on 020 7353 6802
Jane specialises in all aspects of Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law, and has represented private and publicly-funded clients in the following fields:
Asylum
Family Reunion
Entry Clearance
...
Krystelle Wass
Year of Call: 2007 Call on
Krystelle has a mixed practice, encompassing immigration, refugee and asylum and public law. She also has particular expertise in disclosure matters, specifically in large serious fraud cases. She...
Sara Anzani
Year of Call: 2008 Call on
Sara is an experienced human rights and public law practitioner specialising in all areas of immigration, asylum and nationality law. Sara also has a keen interest in public law challenges to police...
Bronwen Jones
Year of Call: 2009 Call on 020 7353 6802
Bronwen specialises in asylum and immigration and children family law.
Dr Charlotte Proudman
Year of Call: 2010 Call on 020 7353 6802
Charlotte is an award-winning barrister with an extensive practice in complex trials and appellate cases, often encompassing ground-breaking points of law. Ranked as Legal 500’s Leading Junior,...
Kezia Tobin
Year of Call: 2010 Call on 020 7353 6802
Kezia practices in all areas of immigration, asylum and nationality law and regularly appears in the First Tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal. In addition to representing clients in the...
Amanda Walker
Year of Call: 2011 Call on 020 7353 6802
Amanda specialises in immigration law.
Amanda moved to Goldsmith Chambers from Mansfield Chambers in October 2015.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Amanda worked in the field of immigration and...
Jamila Hassan
Year of Call: 2011 Call on 020 7353 6802
Jamila is a specialist family and children law barrister, with particular emphasis on public and private children cases. She also accepts instructions on financial remedy and protective orders under...
Emma Harris
Year of Call: 2011 Call on 020 7353 6802
Emma’s is an experienced practitioner specialising in commercial litigation, contractual disputes, property litigation (including landlord and tenant and housing law) and actions against the police....
Julian Norman
Year of Call: 2012 Call on
Julian has specialised in immigration law since 2002. After ten years working in private practice, initially as a paralegal and then qualifying as a solicitor in 2007, she was called to the Bar in...
Nicholas Sadeghi
Year of Call: 2012 Call on
Nicholas is a committed advocate, providing advice and representation in immigration, asylum, and public law. He routinely advises and represents clients challenging Home Office and judicial...
Lawrence Youssefian
Year of Call: 2013 Call on
Lawrence is a public law practitioner, and specialises in UK immigration, asylum and nationality matters. He has a busy practice representing individuals in the First-tier and Upper Tribunal, as well...
Araniya Kogulathas
Year of Call: 2014 Call on
Araniya is a conscientious and tenacious advocate who provides advice and representation in all areas of immigration and asylum law and public law.
Prior to joining Chambers, Araniya was a Legal...
George Symes
Year of Call: 2015 Call on
George has extensive experience dealing with Immigration, Asylum, Administrative, and Civil Law and is accepting instructions in all these fields.
George previously worked for the Government Legal...
Joseph Byrne
Year of Call: 2016 Call on
Joseph is an immigration, civil and public law barrister with a particular focus on human rights and asylum law, public inquiries and actions against the police. He is known for combining rigorous...
Pierre Georget
Year of Call: 2017 Call on
Pierre is a specialist immigration and human rights barrister with over 5 years’ experience practising in the field of immigration and asylum, as both a Level 3 OISC-accredited advocate and since...
Jeremy Frost
Year of Call: 2018 Call on
Jeremy accepts instructions in London, the South East, the Midlands, and Manchester.
Jeremy was called to the Bar in 2018, and has already begun to build a successful mixed practice. Since joining...
Brenda Efurhievwe (Efu-rie-ve)
Year of Call: 2019 Call on
Brenda has a busy Immigration and Public Law practice and is regularly instructed in a wide range of matters on both a publicly and privately funded basis, and can also accept instructions via Direct...
Shiraz Bhanji
Year of Call: 1979 Call on
Shiraz Bhanji is an experienced practitioner across all areas of crime, employment, immigration and public law.
During the late nineties Shiraz pursued interest in rural communities in Kenya...
Daniel Coleman
Year of Call: 1994 Call on
Daniel Coleman is a well established practitioner and he appears at all levels in Immigration law cases.
Daniel is committed to appellate work and has a special interest in cases involving both...
Katherine Soroya
Year of Call: 2022 Call on
Immigration and Public Law
Prior to joining Goldsmith Chambers, Katherine had a busy practice in immigration and asylum law at Turpin Miller LLP. She is an experienced immigration and public law...