Practice Areas
Zeena is a Partner. She co-leads the Human Rights practice with Matthew Wills and has extensive experience in dealing with both personal and business immigration matters. Zeena deals with a range of complex personal immigration matters. This includes matters relating to refusals, challenging re-entry bans, appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal as well as applications for judicial and administrative review.
Additionally, Zeena advises on settlement, British nationality registration and naturalisation cases, with a particular focus on the tracing of British nationality based on the post-independence British colony status of a parent or grandparent. Zeena is particularly well known for dealing with complex nationality cases.
Zeena is a member of the Law Society’s Immigration Law Committee and represents the organisation externally and in consultations with the Home Office. She has been actively involved in providing commentary on Covid-19 implications, the EU Settlement Scheme and, more recently, the transition to eVisas and electronic travel authorisations.
In recent years, Zeena has been commended for her exceptional contribution to the legal profession by the Law Society. She is also an author for the Free Movement blog and a mentor for the Centre for Women’s Justice charity.