Katherine is an Immigration and Public Law barrister. She is committed to fearlessly advancing her clients’ interests.
Katherine represents clients in all areas of immigration law, including protection, deportation, human rights, EU and citizenship matters. She has a busy tribunal practice and regularly appears before judges in the First-tier and Upper Tier Tribunal. Katherine specialises in refugee law and welcomes instructions in particularly complex or sensitive protection matters. She is known for her ability to work effectively with vulnerable clients and is often instructed in cases requiring intermediaries or reasonable adjustments.
Katherine is an expert author for LexisNexis and a regular contributor to the legal blog Free Movement. She accepts both publicly and privately funded instructions.
Katherine also has a broad public law practice and is experienced in both Administrative Court and Upper Tribunal judicial review proceedings, including where urgent or interim relief is sought. Her practice spans challenges to wrongful age assessments by local authorities; the suitability, termination and refusal of accommodation; certification or removal directions; and wider policy-based challenges.
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL)
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Ann Goddard Pupillage Scholarship – Gray’s Inn, 2024
University of Law Prize for Outstanding Performance in the BPC, 2022
School of Law Diploma Award for Outstanding Performance in the GDL, 2020
Albion Richardson Bar Scholarship – Gray’s Inn, 2020
Bar Practice Course, University of Law (Bloomsbury)
Graduate Diploma in Law, Oxford Brookes School of Law
MSc International Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
BA International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London
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