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Immigration - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Mark Symes is a high-quality barrister who offers an all-round immigration service and is noted for his work on international protection. Before coming to the Bar, he worked at the Refugee Legal Centre, and he is now best known for appearing in various landmark country guidance asylum cases and judicial review challenges. He has extensive experience before the higher courts, including the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.
Strengths
Civil procedure processes can be quite complicated, but he can explain it very clearly to people.
He is encyclopedic of immigration and asylum law.
Mark makes some of the most complex immigration and asylum law sound very straightforward and simple.