Eastgate Chambers

Eastgate Chambers offer a full range of Criminal Defence and Immigration services to Legal Aid or private clients and businesses at extremely competitive and affordable rates across our 3 offices in the City of Wrexham North Wales and the towns of Stafford & Cannock in the West Midlands. Please contact Simon Clark, Senior Supervising Caseworker with your query. Simon is able to provide Immigration advice and representation at Immigration and Asylum Appeal Tribunals. He also oversees our Criminal Defence work & will direct you to one of our Barristers, Solicitors, Paralegals or Police Station Representatives who operate across North Wales & Staffordshire. Simon has a wealth of experience and expertise in Immigration law and as our Crown Court department Clerk. Simon previously worked for a Legal Aid Solicitors in Cardiff where he established a reputation and following for his dedication to helping clients. He previously spent nearly 6 years working at the Home Office gaining invaluable experience in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. Simon then went on to qualify as a Senior Caseworker accredited by the Law Society of England and Wales. Simon was raised in Stafford and returned to the area from South Wales in 2013 to join the family business and establish the Immigration department of Eastgate Chambers. After relocating to Wrexham, North Wales in 2014, Simon opened a new office in Wrexham in 2018 to deliver a Legal Aid contract for Asylum & Immigration advice for the whole of North Wales. From 1st October 2022 our Legal Aid service for Criminal Defence work now extends to North Wales. Simon can deal with a diversity of Immigration matters from Entry Clearance applications to Higher appeals. An experienced advocate, he regularly appears before the First and Upper Tier Tribunals where he has secured leave to remain for refugees, helped to reunite families from overseas in entry clearance appeals and successfully defended clients against deportation from the United Kingdom. Simon has established relationships with a number of organisations that support people in this sector including Citizens Advice, the Red Cross, Rainbow Migration, the Welsh Refugee Council, Welsh local authorities, domestic violence organisations BAWSO, DASU & GORWEL and Cheshire Halton & Warrington Race & Equality Centre. Simon can be instructed as an agent for other solicitors to represent their clients at Immigration and Asylum Tribunal appeal hearings across the UK. For businesses, Simon can arrange Sponsor Licences and Tier 2 Visas for your employees. Appointments are available at any of our 3 offices or remotely by Zoom/Teams. If you are based overseas we deliver a VAT free service to you 100% remotely, with previous clients from as far afield as China, Russia, the Middle East and the US for example - we were using Skype video meetings a decade ago - long before remote working became the norm!