Services


 

Timescales

The timescales for each case may vary depending on the nature of the work to be completed, a barrister’s availability, the need for additional documents, the nature and complexity of the case, whether there is any urgency, as well as external factors such as, Tribunal listing dates and the Home Office approach to your case.

As you must appeal a decision from the Home Office (that carries a right of appeal) within 14 days (if the person concerned is in the UK) or 28 days (if outside the UK), please contact us by email at amsynyln@gmail.com

If you need advice and/or representation at short notice, please contact us as soon as possible: our barristers will aim to advise you and/or represent you at a hearing, where possible.

General Immigration and Human Rights

  • All types of entry clearance applications
  • Nationality and registration applications
  • Long Residence/Settlement applications within the Immigration Rules
  • Appendix FM applications
  • Deprivation of citizenship 
  • Human rights applications on compassionate grounds
  • Administrative removals (incl out of hours applications for injunctive relief)
 
 

Asylum and International protection

  • Expertise in several countries including Turkey, Sudan and China
  • Trafficking
  • Modern Slavery
  • Third Country removal decisions/ Dublin Convention matters

 

Commercial and Business immigration

  • Sponsor licenses for businesses
  • Entrepreneur visas
  • Investment visas
  • Sector expertise (artists)
  • Long term and short term work visas
  • Challenging refusals 
  • Administrative Review
  • Settlement applications for the categories above

 

Deportation

  • All aspects of deportation both under the Immigration Rules and EU law
  • Recommended deportation appeals
  • Applications for revocation of deportation orders

 

Bail and Unlawful detention

  • Immigration Bail
  • Challenging unlawful detention by judicial review

 

EU nationals and family members
 

  • Applications under the EUSS
  • Appeals regarding EUSS applications
  • Permanent residence (settled status)
  • Deportation of EU nationals 

 

Criminal appeals

  • Advising on all types of sentence including IPP/DPP
  • Convictions including sexual offences and murder.
  • Out of time appeals.

 

Public law

  • Applications for judicial review to the Upper tribunal and Administrative court.
  • Applications for injunctive relief.

Complaints Procedure

If you are unhappy with the service provided by a barrister in Augustus Chambers, you may file a complaint. All complaints will be acknowledged promptly (not later than 14 days from the date of receipt of the complaint. Full details of Chambers’ complaint procedure will be sent either electronically or by post on request. Please note that the complaint will first be dealt with internally. If not resolved satisfactorily internally, a complaint can be made to the Legal Ombudsman. Details will be outlined in the complaints procedure available on request

You can write to the Legal Ombudsman at: Legal Ombudsman PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton. WV1 9WJ.

Telephone number: 0300 555 0333 Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk

More information about the Legal Ombudsman is available on their website: http://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/

You must complain to the Legal Ombudsman either within six years of your barrister’s actions/failure to act, or no later than three years after you should reasonably have known there were grounds to complain. You must also complain to the Legal Ombudsman within six months of receiving your barrister’s final response to your complaint.

The decision data on LeO’s website shows providers which received an ombudsman’s decision in the previous 12 months. In each case, the data shows whether the LeO required the provider to give the consumer a remedy. This page will allow you to see whether a barrister was required to provide any remedies in the previous 12 months. This will help you to make informed decisions about whom to instruct.

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Standard Contractual Terms

From 25 May 2018, Chambers implemented the Bar Standards Board’s Standard Contractual Terms in respect of all briefs and instructions accepted by members of Chambers to which the Contractual Terms apply.

Details of the Terms of Business will be included in the acknowledgement letter on receipt of briefs and instructions.

The Bar Standards Board’s Standard Contractual Terms can be found here:

New Standard Contractual Terms For The Supply Of Legal Services By Barristers To Authorised Persons 2012 (Updated for the GDPR in 2018.

Get in touch

For any enquiries please feel free to email at 

 amsynyln@gmail.com

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