Immigration and Civil Rights

Our Immigration and Civil Rights Department has specialist expertise in immigration, asylum and human rights as well as other areas of public law.

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Louise Boyes, Partnership Member at FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UK

Louise Boyes , Partnership Member

Louise is a Solicitor specialising in business and private immigration law and in particular commercial immigration cases, including work permits and applications for investors, sole representatives, business persons and highly skilled migrants.

Louise also undertakes company/commercial work with a cross border/international element, as well as public law work.

Louise is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. She is also a founding member and secretary of the Union of International Advocates’ Immigration working group. She has extensive experience of conducting cases in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal as well as in the Administrative (High) Court and Court of Appeal. Having studied law at the University of Essex and the College of Law, York, Louise undertook her training at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP qualifying as a Solicitor in November 1999. She became a Partnership Member in 2003. Louise is ranked in Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2007 in Immigration East Anglia (Band 1).

Ashlee Campbell, FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UK

Ashlee Campbell

Ashlee attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and obtained a BA in Law and Industrial Psychology before taking her LLB. Prior to leaving South Africa she specialised in labour law. Since joining the firm in 2001 she has worked in the Civil Rights Team and has extensive experience in all aspects of immigration and asylum law. She has undertaken work for businesses such as in reviews against the refusal of work permit applications and dealt with other EU applications. She regularly does High Court Judicial Review applications against the Home Office. She also regularly deals with all types of Entry Clearance applications including those for spouses, children, dependent relatives and work permit holders. She is particularly experienced and interested in the impact of immigration law on children’s and women’s rights and unlawful detention.

Rose Carey, Solicitor at FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UK

Rose Carey , Solicitor

Rose qualified as a solicitor in 2003. She has a Masters in Law taken at the University of Kent and completed her LPC at the College of Law, London. She is a former chair of the National Committee of the Critical Lawyers Group. She has extensive experience in all areas of immigration law including, innovator and business applications, work permits, applications by dependents of work permit holders, Highly Skilled Migrant Programme, applications for leave to remain by family members, such as spouses and children, EU applications and applications outside the immigration rules. She acts for corporate entities and businesses as well as individuals and has represented many clients at appeal and in applications before the High Court.

Hannah Graves, Solicitor at FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UK

Hannah Graves , Solicitor

Hannah is a solicitor specialising in general and commercial immigration, asylum law, human rights and community care. Hannah obtained her first degree in English literature and went on to study law at the University of East Anglia and at the College of Law. Hannah routinely assists clients with immigration visas and appeals relating to employment and business and visas for family members, such as spouses and children, she also has a particular interest in cases involving EU free movement rights for individuals and their family members, as well as establishment of businesses and provision of services for overseas clients.

Hannah also specialises in public law, in particular in relation to community care, continuing care, Judicial Review and High Court litigation, representing clients to assist them with exercising their rights to support and services and resolving funding and other disputes between the individual, the National Health Service, NASS and Social Services.