Solicitor and Legal Project Manager

Ruaridh works primarily on the UK litigation team, covering: 

- Appeals against refusals of applications to the EU Settlement Scheme

- Appeals against deportation for EU nationals

- Appeals against refusal to provide benefits (eg, Universal Credit most commonly) to migrants from EU countries

As well as doing public law work, Ruaridh also works on advice letters as well as applications to the EUSS, normally for very vulnerable victims (eg, domestic abuse victims, homeless, mental health, children, care leavers, trafficking victims). He also works on third-party appeals, closely involved in preparing submissions, instructing counsel, and doing specific research.

Ruaridh is a qualified solicitor and worked at Slaughter and May from 2020 to 2023. He then worked as a judicial assistant at the UK Supreme Court for Lord Hodge, where he worked on immigration and public law cases, such as Rwanda, Abassi, All Saints Spring Park Parochial Church Council and Bertino v Italy. He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania (funded by the Thouron Award), doing a mix of international human rights law and asylum and immigration law, including representing an asylum seeker in the US immigration courts. Ruaridh also interned with the AIRE Centre in 2018.