Katherine Soroya

Immigration

Katherine represents clients in all areas of immigration including asylum, deportation, human rights appeals, EU law and citizenship matters. She has a busy tribunal practice and regularly appears before judges in the First-tier and Upper Tribunal. Katherine welcomes instructions in complex or sensitive protection matters and has a reputation for her ability to work effectively with vulnerable clients. As a result, Katherine is often instructed in cases requiring intermediaries or reasonable adjustments. In addition to her tribunal practice, Katherine is an immigration law expert for Lexis Nexis and a regular contributor to the legal blog Free Movement. Katherine accepts both publicly and privately funded instructions.

Public

Katherine has a broad public law practice with experience of judicial review in asylum support, community care, and education matters. Her practice spans challenges to wrongful age assessments by the local authority, suitability of accommodation for asylum claimants, urgent challenges to removal directions and wider policy-based challenges.

Family

Katherine practices in private children work. She is regularly instructed in complex multi-day fact-finding and final hearings. Her experience includes cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse, domestic abuse including coercive and controlling behaviour, honour-based abuse, and cases requiring intermediaries.

Prior to the Bar

Before qualifying as a barrister Katherine spent several years as a Supervising Caseworker at a leading law firm where she represented many clients through complex immigration processes. She also worked in the charity sector and in publishing before pursuing a career as a barrister having been motivated by her experience volunteering with individuals in detention. Throughout her legal studies, Katherine was the recipient of numerous academic and scholarship awards.