Graham Denholm

Practice Areas

Immigration (personal and business, asylum, deportation); civil actions against public authorities; immigration detention; data protection and information law; mediation and ADR.

Career

Graham has a broad practice in civil, public and immigration law, working at all levels of court as sole counsel, leading junior, or part of a team.

Graham’s civil work takes in High Court and County Court claims against public authorities, including the Home Office, the police, local authorities and NHS trusts. His public law practice has a grounding in migrants’ rights but extends across the full range of chambers’ work. He is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor on behalf of incapacitous claimants and has particular expertise in the management of damages awards in such cases.

Graham has many years’ experience in immigration law acting at all levels from the First-tier and Upper Tribunals to the Supreme Court. He deals with private client matters as well as deportation, asylum and human rights appeals. His expertise in immigration detention is widely recognised and he is happy to act in linked immigration and detention proceedings.

Graham is a trained mediator and is committed to ADR as a means of securing positive outcomes for his clients in appropriate cases.

Professional Memberships

Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

Society for Computers and Law

Education