Bio
Rowena is a public law practitioner whose main areas of practice are administrative law, human rights and international law (including EU law).
In terms of her administrative law practice, she has particular expertise in immigration and asylum law and community care. Rowena is well-placed to undertake work at the intersection of these areas, including age assessment, trafficking and modern slavery and asylum support judicial reviews. She regularly undertakes cases under the Children Act and Care Act.
Rowena further regularly undertakes statutory appeal work in the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) as well as onward appeal to the Court of Appeal. She is one of the authors of the central handbook on asylum and human rights appeals in the First-tier, the EIN Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals (updated edition forthcoming EIN, 2021).
Rowena regularly represents individuals in immigration detention. She advises and provides representation for individuals seeking immediate release through judicial review as well as civil damages claims for unlawful detention.
She also has a substantial advisory practice, including advice to businesses and individuals on their immigration matters.
Rowena has particular expertise in international law, an in particular, EU law. She is the co-author of EU Law in Judicial Review (OUP, 2014) and various texts on Brexit. She also regularly gives talks in the area, including at Chatham House (2017, Constitutional Consequences of Brexit) and the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, as well as giving regular seminars at Doughty Street and in house.
Rowena also advises and provides representation in international cases and in particular those engaging international human rights.
Rowena is a convenor of the Courts and Tribunals Working Group of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (‘ILPA’), was a member of the JUSTICE Working Party on Tribunal Reform (2018), Case Notes Editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law (2015-2020), and is an author for Lexis PSL. During 2010-11, Rowena was judicial assistant to Lord Dyson at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. She has a DPhil in administrative law (Oxford University).
Rowena is accredited for direct access, which means she can be instructed directly by anybody without the need to go through a solicitor.
Rowena is ranked by the legal directories.