Adrian’s core public law practice spans a range of inter-related areas concerning citizenship, migration, human rights, international protection, and social assistance:

1. British Nationality, Conflict of Nationality Laws, and Statelessness
2. Investor, Entrepreneur, High Value, and Economic Migration (inc Work Permits)
3. EU Citizenship and Free Movement of Persons
4. Human Rights and Family Reunion
5. International Protection, Refugee Law and Asylum, and Extradition
6. Settlement, Permanent Residence, and Citizenship, for High Value Migrants
7. Student Migration
8. General UK Immigration Law
9. Homelessness, Housing, and Migrant Welfare
10. Community Care and Welfare Benefits

He acts and advises across the field of public law. He provides advice and advocacy services. He accepts instructions via a solicitor or other licenced professional client. In addition, he is acts for clients directly under the Bar Public Access scheme.

Adrian acts for individuals, communities and, where appropriate, NGOs and international organisations. He accepts instructions to assist persons with applications, reviews and legal remedies in courts and tribunals. He also acts as a consultant to NGOs and international organisations, to assist with strategic litigation, analyses and reports of immigration and nationality law and practice, and actions plans for reform.

Adrian practises in the Administrative Court, the Immigration Tribunals, the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal, Appeal Courts, County Courts, and the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). He has acted in cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and with petitions to the European Court of Human Rights. A list of some of his notable cases is set out below.

Adrian is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and the Bar Council’s Brexit Working Group. He writes a blog on migration, citizenship and free movement called Cosmopolis. He also has a website on Nationality and Citizenship law. As an immigration barrister he is well known, not just for his casework, but also for his policy work and contribution to debates on immigration and nationality law.