Sarah Gogan
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation
Band 3
About
Provided by Sarah Gogan
Practice Areas
Sarah is a private client lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in a broad spectrum of UK immigration work. She is regarded in the industry as one of the leading lawyers in all aspects of personal immigration law, nationality, asylum and human rights law.
She acts for a wide range of clients from every part of the globe – household names and other prominent individuals, international families, UHNW and HNW individuals, professionals and business people, and stars recognised in the global entertainment industry.
Her work covers immigration applications under the Investor and Business categories of the UK immigration rules. This includes applications for partners and children including adoption and surrogacy. She also advises on Indefinite Leave to Remain/Settlement and British Nationality applications. She has vast experience in helping clients to find innovative legal solutions in the most complex immigration situations.
Her work focuses on personal immigration matters which are often problematic and require bespoke solutions. Sarah’s practice is notable for its success rate in respect of complex applications and/or problematic evidential issues. She is strategic and innovative in her approach and is non-litigious, proactive and solution driven. Her varied and extensive experience and technical knowledge of dealing with exceptional cases, and success in obtaining discretion for non-compliant applications, have put Sarah in the forefront of the market.
In addition, Sarah has a wide breadth of experience in contentious litigation cases for high profile individuals who are facing challenging circumstances and often require international protection. She has significant experience in advising high net worth individuals with regards to complex, politically sensitive protection cases involving political persecution as well as human rights-based applications.
Sarah’s clients often regard her as their trusted advisor and call upon her for advice on all of their personal and business interests.
Chambers Review
UK
Sarah Gogan is head of the immigration team at Harbottle & Lewis. She is adept at representing prominent individuals facing a wide range of challenges to their human rights and current immigration status.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sarah is lovely to work with. She is very client-focused and has got very good tactical instincts."
"She is a consummate professional with wonderful experience and excellent client service."
"Sarah is lovely to work with. She is very client-focused and has got very good tactical instincts."
"She is a consummate professional with wonderful experience and excellent client service."