Deborah Revill

Deborah specialises in immigration law. Prior to coming to the Bar, she worked for the Immigration Advisory Service, formerly the UK's largest provider of legal advice on immigration and asylum, and was accredited by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. She then spent a year as the employee of two direct access immigration barristers. She therefore has experience of preparing applications, running case files and dealing with lay clients; this informs her practice at the Bar in that she understands Home Office procedure and the realities faced by her professional clients.

Deborah completed pupillage in a predominantly criminal set and, on accepting tenancy there, chose to specialise in immigration law, going on to establish a successful practice in the field almost from scratch.

Deborah is committed to obtaining the best results for her clients and has enjoyed success in a number of challenging cases based on her thorough approach and in-depth legal knowledge. She regularly appears in both appeals and judicial review proceedings and is public access qualified.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Education

  • BA (Hons) (Oxon) Philosophy and Theology (University of Oxford, 2007)
  • Graduate Diploma in Law - Distinction (BPP Law School, Leeds, 2008)
  • Bar Vocational Course - Outstanding (BPP Law School, Leeds, 2009)

2 Contributions by Deborah Revill

UK immigration: Curtailment and cancellation of permission—grounds, service, legal consequences, travel risks, and routes to challenge (judicial review, administrative review, EU Settlement Scheme appeals)
PRACTICE NOTES
UK immigration: Curtailment and cancellation of permission—grounds, service, legal consequences, travel risks, and routes to challenge (judicial review, administrative review, EU Settlement Scheme appeals)
This Practice Note examines the legal and practical outcomes of curtailing and cancelling permission to enter and remain, and their impact. It further summarises the avenues by which curtailment and cancellation may be contested. Advisers should remain alert to the different bases on which curtailment and cancellation could be impugned (for example, for procedural unfairness), so they can shape advice wherever it appears such a step might be contemplated, in any given case and at an early stage. See: The scope of judicial review challenges to curtailment and cancellation. In this Practice Note, the expressions ‘leave to enter/remain’ and ‘permission to enter/stay’ are used interchangeably. Within the Immigration Rules for simplified routes, the word ‘permission’ has replaced ‘leave’, yet the earlier term continues in other categories of stay and in the relevant legislation. Curtailment Curtailment is the process by which the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) reduces the extant permission of individuals already present in the UK. Permission is either ended with immediate effect, or the remaining leave is cut short, commonly to a period of 60 days. Before 1 December 2020, paragraph 323 of the Immigration Rules, Part 9 set out the grounds on which permission...
Immigration
UK immigration: impact of legal and policy changes—presumption against retrospectivity, policy withdrawal, and legitimate expectation in appeals and judicial review
PRACTICE NOTES
UK immigration: impact of legal and policy changes—presumption against retrospectivity, policy withdrawal, and legitimate expectation in appeals and judicial review
This Practice Note was originally prepared by Dame Judith Farbey DBE. Amendments to immigration law can mean that a person applying for entry or leave under one rule or policy finds their application decided by reference to a different rule or policy. This Note outlines the principles the courts have employed when considering the impact of changes in law or policy on individual cases... the presumption against the retrospective effect of legislation the legal consequences of withdrawing a policy the principle of legitimate expectation These matters are nuanced. Advice to clients will frequently hinge on the specific facts rather than the automatic transposition of what the courts have stated in earlier decisions. The purpose of this Note is to lay a foundation for a general appreciation of certain legal principles... The presumption against the retrospective effect of legislation At common law, there is a presumption that a statutory provision is not intended to operate retrospectively in a way that alters vested legal rights...
Immigration
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