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About
Provided by 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
MA (Hons) Glasgow (First Class), M.Phil (Cantab) PGDL, Nottingham Law School, 2000 BVC, Nottingham Law School, 2001
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Graham Denholm is an experienced public law and immigration barrister with notable expertise in asylum and deportation matters, particularly cases involving vulnerable clients such as children and trafficking victims. He is a recognised immigration detention expert who is routinely called upon to act for clients in judicial review proceedings against the Home Office, including in cases before the Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal.
Graham Denholm is particularly well known for his sterling work in the field of immigration. He routinely undertakes complex deportation and asylum cases, and has specialist expertise in immigration detention. He frequently brings civil actions and judicial reviews against the Home Office, often involving complex false imprisonment claims.
Graham Denholm chiefly counsels claimants in judicial reviews challenging decisions of the Home Secretary. He is well versed in cases concerning immigration detention, age assessments and asylum appeals.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Graham has amazing knowledge and he is very reliable. He has an excellent eye for detail and he is a joy to work with."
"He is smart and thoughtful. He is just a really good practitioner."
"Graham is phenomenal in immigration detention work."
"Graham is a long-time practitioner specialising in detention law – he is one of the leading specialists in that area."
"He is amazing, especially on false imprisonment. When you instruct Graham, you know you're in safe hands. He just knows his stuff and will work with you to progress a case."
"Graham has exceptional attention to detail, provides clear and comprehensive advice, and has great tactical sense."
"He is simply excellent at what he does."
"His knowledge in the field is second to none."
"Graham has amazing knowledge and he is very reliable. He has an excellent eye for detail and he is a joy to work with."
"He is smart and thoughtful. He is just a really good practitioner."
"Graham is phenomenal in immigration detention work."
"Graham is a long-time practitioner specialising in detention law – he is one of the leading specialists in that area."
"He is amazing, especially on false imprisonment. When you instruct Graham, you know you're in safe hands. He just knows his stuff and will work with you to progress a case."
"Graham has exceptional attention to detail, provides clear and comprehensive advice, and has great tactical sense."
"He is simply excellent at what he does."
"His knowledge in the field is second to none."
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