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Ana Gonzalez

Ana specialises in asylum and immigration. Her main areas of expertise are human trafficking, gender/sexuality-based persecution claims and EU law. She has conducted many cases in the immigration courts, Court of Appeal and Administrative Court. Ana has a growing practice in human trafficking cases, EU law applications and privately funded matters. Ana successfully represented the country guidance case of AM and BM (Trafficked women) Albania CG [2010] UKUT 80 (IAC), the first human trafficking case to come before the Court of Appeal, PO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 132, the country guidance cases of AB (Protection – Criminal Gangs – Internal Relocation) Jamaica and MK (Lesbians) Albania, and in the Supreme Court case of RT [2012] UKSC38 on political opinion. · Wilson Solicitors LLP

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About

Ana Gonzalez is a partner at Wilson Solicitors LLP specialising in asylum and immigration, with particular expertise in human trafficking, gender/sexuality-based persecution claims and EU law. She has extensive appellate experience and has acted in leading country guidance and Supreme Court cases.

Practice areas

AsylumImmigrationHuman TraffickingEU LawHuman RightsAdministrative / Public LawAppeals

Office

Expertise

Gender/Sexuality-Based PersecutionHuman TraffickingAppellate LitigationCountry Guidance CasesEU Law ApplicationsPrivately Funded Immigration Matters

Education

  • Centro de Ensenanzas Integradas, Spain
  • Universidade de A Coruna — 1994 Spanish Employment/Business Law; 1999 LLDip
  • College of Law, London — 2001 LPC

Admissions

  • Qualified 2003
  • Level 3 (Advanced Caseworker) accreditation, 2010

Languages

SpanishPortuguese