Job Ad: Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre

We are looking for an experienced Immigration Solicitor to join our highly successful, creative, and dynamic immigration team.

 The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre has a much-respected Immigration Team. We are a category 1 Legal Aid Immigration provider and we have considerable experience across the range of immigration and asylum work, running cases at all levels of the Tribunal and Court system including the Administrative Court, the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. We wish to further develop our public law work/practice.

This exciting opportunity would suit a solicitor experienced in and comfortable with litigation but also with a strong desire to drive forward sector-based strategic change for children and young people experiencing the UK’s asylum system. Working with our skilled, progressive, and supportive team, you can achieve strategic change, potentially through litigation, and develop your practice in immigration/public law. You would also work with and be informed by children and young people with and their lived experience of the asylum system.

We are an expanding practice and currently have ten solicitors and caseworkers working in immigration at the Law Centre. There are opportunities to work within a supportive team and to develop your areas of expertise. The candidate must be an experienced IAAS Senior Caseworker or Supervising Senior Caseworker.

Salary: £42,400 to £46,787 depending upon experience.

29 days leave plus bank holidays.

For an application pack please visit www.islingtonlaw.org.uk/news and reply to recruitment@islingtonlaw.org.uk. Closing date for applications: Monday 27^th of January 2025 at 10.30am.