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Alasdair Mackenzie

Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers

United Kingdom

a.mackenzie@doughtystreet.co.uk

About me

I am an experienced leading junior who specialises in immigration and asylum law and practices generally in public law.

I am regularly instructed in appeals to the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal and in judicial reviews in both the High Court and Upper Tribunal. I appear frequently before the Upper Tribunal and First-Tier Tribunal in all areas of immigration law, including refugee, human rights, family, EEA, student, points-based system, bail and deportation cases. I also appear in judicial reviews of trafficking decisions and age assessments.

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05 Mar 2021

Fee waivers: Home Office defeated again

By Alasdair Mackenzie

In a fresh reversal for its long-standing practice of charging people large fees for various immigration-related processes, the Home...

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23 Apr 2020

What is the Home Office not telling us?

By Alasdair Mackenzie

How can the Home Office be prevented from withholding important information in immigration appeals?

In Nimo (appeals: duty of...

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20 Apr 2020

Children, parents & deportation: an update

By Alasdair Mackenzie

In an earlier post a couple of weeks ago I suggested a way through the increasingly severe approach in cases where parents of British or...

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09 Apr 2020

Oral hearings – who needs them?

By Alasdair Mackenzie

The Upper Tribunal’s ‘Presidential Guidance Note No 1 2020: Arrangements During The COVID-19 Pandemic’ envisages moving, in...

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08 Apr 2020

Deportation: when is it "unduly" harsh on a child?

By Alasdair Mackenzie

The law concerning harm to children in deportation cases has become bleak, but a recent decision of UT Judge Keith, posted on the...