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Employment - Midlands (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Jessica Smeaton attracts acclaim for her representation of claimants and public sector respondents in connection with employment claims. She often acts for NHS trusts and is experienced in the full range of allegations including disability discrimination, sex discrimination, redundancies, unfair dismissal and whistle-blowing.
Immigration - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Jessica Smeaton engages in immigration and asylum cases, both privately and publicly funded. She frequently acts in appeals and judicial reviews, often appearing before the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. She has also recently represented clients in the Supreme Court and SIAC.
Strengths
Her written advocacy is perfect - very succinct and precise. Her strength is asylum for clients in the LGBT community, and she has got some very high-quality work in that space.
She is great, she's brilliant. She has exactly the calm that a leading counsel needs.
She is a first-rate advocate.