BIO
I trained at a prestigious Lincoln’s Inn firm and have afterwards worked at law firms in the City. 

EDUCATION
Degree: MA (Oxon), St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (Law).  Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.

SRA NUMBER
304045

CREDENTIALS:
I have decades of specialist experience in assisting clients of all cultures and backgrounds and pride myself on a friendly and professional approach.  I am dedicated to promoting my clients' well-being and achieving a successful outcome (with my philosophy being that meticulous preparation is the foundation for this).

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My work has included undertaking free-lance senior consultancy work for a global leader in travel and business visas, as part of their business and private client immigration team. My role within this has been: to deal with some of their most complex corporate and private client immigration and nationality law issues; undertaking complex research at speed, to facilitate fast travel and relocation, with a substantial, well-known, corporate client caseload, many of them global; handling their VIP private clients, with a reputation for ensuring client satisfaction and fast problem-solving.  This work has involved the use of up-to-date technology to facilitate remote-working and information/data-sharing.

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My expertise is in all aspects of UK immigration, nationality and asylum law, especially in resolving difficult cases, often by using imaginative solutions and complex human rights law.  I deal with:

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All forms of family, business-related, and citizenship, applications to the Home Office, and appeals in the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal;

Judicial and administrative review;

European, international and public law.

 

My client base is widely drawn from diverse cultures across the world (Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, the Middle East and the Far East).  

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Past advocacy (courts and tribunals) and lecturing (for Stonewall Immigration Group – UK immigration and nationality advice to same-sex couples, including pioneering work before the introduction of civil partnerships).  Participant in Goldsmith Chambers Animal Rights Team meetings; Writing research articles for the Nonhuman Rights Project.

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My practice has also included: international, commercial and private litigation and arbitration and commercial contract drafting, for individuals and entities based in the Gulf region; drafting responses to UK government legislation consultations; in-house legal training and supervision of paralegals and trainees.

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I am also a consultant to Roberta (see below)'s own independent specialist employment law practice, Sacaloffs.  See also www.sacaloffs.co.uk

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Memberships:

Free Movement, UK Centre for Animal Law.

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Other external interests & activities:

Book-writing (non-fiction)/frequent published articles on historical subject matter, including Coatimundi (book publication in progress).  Running/assisting with research and book projects: May we be Britons; Finding King Harold (BBC radio interview and news article in the national press); the Auramala Project; Long Live the King; Remembering the Franklin Expedition.  Genealogy.  Music.  Philosophy.  Art.  Foreign travel.  Swimming & physical fitness.