Daniel Sills

Practice

Daniel is committed to representing the vulnerable and socially excluding.  He practises in immigration and asylum, family, and employment law.

Immigration and Asylum

During pupillage Daniel has built on his previous training and gained further experience in a wide range of appeals and judicial reviews before the Immigration and Asylum Chamber and the higher courts.

Family

During pupillage Daniel has gained broad experience in family law, including public and private law children’s cases, and ancillary relief.

Employment

Daniel has experience of acting for employees in a wide range of employment law matters including unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, and whistle-blowing cases.  Daniel recently successfully represented a claimant awarded £83,000 in a five day whistle-blowing case.

Background

Before pupillage, Daniel worked as a solicitor for six years at Islington Law Centre specialising in immigration and asylum law, and claimant based employment law, carrying out his own advocacy.  Daniel has experience of publicly funded work in all areas of both immigration and asylum law and employment law.

Daniel initially studied History at Queens’ College, Cambridge University before converting to law.  He has a Masters in Human Rights Law from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Daniel has experience of working for human rights organisations abroad.  He worked as an intern representing inmates on death row at the Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights.  He also interned at the Refugee Law Project in Kampala, Uganda, representing refugees in resettlement applications and carrying out field research on a post-conflict reconciliation project.

Teaching

Daniel is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University teaching on the undergraduate public and criminal law course.

Pro Bono

Daniel is a volunteer with the Asylum Support Appeals Project and BID.

Languages

Daniel speaks fluent German and advanced Spanish.