Natasha Barnes

Practice Areas

Natasha Barnes is a highly-regarded junior who acts in a variety of sensitive and complex cases focusing on judicial review, indirect tax and other areas of public and human rights law. Natasha advises a wide spectrum of clients including individuals, companies, public authorities and government departments. She is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel.

Natasha’s Tax practice covers litigation and advice across all areas of indirect tax, and she is particularly sought after for challenges brought by way of judicial review. She regularly appears before the Court of Appeal, High Court, Upper Tax Tribunal and in high value appeals heard in the First-tier Tax Tribunal. Those cases have involved the interpretation of EU directives, fiscal neutrality, the place of supply, triangulation, human rights in relation to tax law, the excise warehousing scheme and the alcohol wholesaler registration scheme.

Natasha specialises in immigration matters and has experience appearing before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and Upper Tribunal in applications for Judicial Review and substantive appeals. She has experience in a wide range of areas including trafficking, asylum, human rights, unlawful detention, deportation, fresh claims, cases under the Points Based System and other immigration appeals.

Natasha also has a strong Public Law practice, and advises and acts for a range of private and government clients across a wide spectrum of administrative and public law.