Amy is a solicitor in the Public Law and Human Rights team.
Amy represents clients in a range of complex public law and judicial review cases, with a particular focus on cases at the intersection of immigration and public law. This includes cases concerning age assessments of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, the suitability of asylum accommodation, and cases concerning victims of trafficking. She is accredited as Senior Caseworker in immigration and asylum, with experience in asylum claims, deportation matters and human rights challenges. Amy also specialises in appeals before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), representing individuals deprived of their British citizenship.
Amy was part of the Bindmans team who successfully obtained a commitment from the government to relocate a number of Afghan families to the UK who had been stuck in limbo for months awaiting relocation under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP). She continues to represent Afghan clients in relation to ARAP, leave outside the rules and family applications.
Education and career
- Amy is accredited as a Senior Caseworker under the Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme
- Before joining Bindmans, Amy worked at another London firm as a paralegal in their Public Law team
- Amy graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2018 with a BA in Law
Experience
- R (PM v SSHD) [2023] EWHC 1551 (Admin), where the court found that Home Office action towards Bindmans’ client, a vulnerable asylum-seeker and victim of trafficking, was ‘absolutely indefensible’
- Successful challenges to the government’s failure to relocate Afghan families who had been offered relocation under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy
- Successful challenges to the accommodation of asylum-seeking clients in Wethersfield, an ex-military camp
- Successful claim for damages for a client detained and threatened with removal from the UK on the basis of homelessness
- Securing suitable accommodation for an asylum-seeking family of five, who had lived in hotels for over two years
Professional memberships
- Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
- Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL)
- Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Publications and press releases
- Hearing to determine C2’s appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship – Press Release, Feb 2024
