Roberta Haslam

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Band 3

Immigration: Personal

UK-wide

2 Years Ranked

Band 3

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation

UK-wide

5 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Roberta Haslam

Practice Areas

Partner, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality.

Roberta has considerable in-depth experience with complex family-based applications and applications made on human rights grounds. Her broad practice includes advising partners, dependent relatives, and other family members on nationality and passport issues. Roberta has a particular interest in advising on asylum claims and applications made on physical or mental health grounds. She also acts on deportation cases, including applications to revoke deportation orders and on appeal.

Roberta also advises on business immigration, providing advice to both employees and businesses. She also regularly provides and post-Brexit advice on the EU Settlement Scheme.

Roberta is experienced in representing clients at the application stage and at appeal in the First Tier and Upper Tribunal and in the higher courts, including the Court of Appeal. She also regularly represents clients in judicial review proceedings. Roberta has also obtained significant damages on behalf of people unlawfully detained by the Home Office.

She provides expert reports on immigration matters for the family court and is regularly instructed by local authorities in relation to children in their care, advising on a range of issues including immigration and citizenship, along with trafficking issues.

Career

Roberta joined Bindmans in 2007 and qualified as a solicitor in March 2010.

Professional Memberships

Law Society IAAS Accredited Supervisor and Senior Caseworker; Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

UK

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation - UK-wide

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Roberta Haslam is experienced in a range of immigration issues and regularly appears for individuals seeking to challenge Home Office policy and decision-making. She is well known for her prowess in human rights and asylum cases, particularly those relating to Article 8 of the ECHR.

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Immigration: Personal - UK-wide

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Roberta Haslam regularly works on behalf of clients with complex immigration histories, and is a noted specialist in family-based applications. In addition to this, she advises across a wide range of matters related to the EUSS and claims to British citizenship.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Roberta is very good at getting the trust of vulnerable clients and is always on top of development in immigration law.

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation respondent
UK

She establishes a level of trust that has ultimately been important in securing outstanding results.

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation respondent
UK

She has worked tirelessly to provide an extremely high quality of advice and service to a group of very vulnerable people in a compassionate yet professional way.

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation respondent
UK

Her sensitivity to the highly personal nature of the matter informed her work in a way that has made the process much less distressing than it could have been.

Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation respondent
UK

She is an amazing human being.

Immigration: Personal respondent
UK

Roberta is wonderful and is really good with vulnerable clients.

Immigration: Personal respondent
UK

Roberta has gone above and beyond my expectations and seen me through such anxious times. Her sensitivity and careful management of my case has been excellent.