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Victoria Pogge von Strandmann
Victoria specialises in community care, and education law, along with healthcare, discrimination law, access to justice and access to information. She has a particular interest in public law, civil liberties and human rights.
Victoria Pogge von Strandmann qualified at Linklaters in 2005 and later moved to Fisher Meredith to focus on the above areas. She joined MG Law in May 2010.
Victoria has developed specific expertise in representing young people in need of support and accommodation from social services, including those leaving custody, care leavers, unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and victims of trafficking. Victoria has also gained considerable experience in representing adult asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers in enforcing their rights to accommodation and support from social services and in respect of difficulties with their asylum support from the Home Office.
Victoria also has a strong interest in education law and regularly represents parents of children who have been excluded, are out of school and with respect to their special educational needs.
Victoria has worked closely with a number of charities including the Medical Foundation, the Refugee Council, Refugee and Migrant Justice, the Howard League for Penal Reform, the Trinity Centre/DOST, the Helen Bamber Foundation, the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and ECPAT.
Victoria’s reported cases include R (B) v Independent Appeal Panel of the London Borough of Brent [2009] EWHC 1189 (Admin) and R (O) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham [2010] EWHC 634 (Admin).
Victoria Pogge von Strandmann is an Associate Trainer for the British Institute of Human Rights and holds a Master of Laws from University College London, where she specialised in public law, human rights and public international law and gained a distinction.
Victoria enjoys playing the violin in her spare time, playing in orchestras in Oxford and London.
Contact details:
Tel: 0844 858 3413 / 0207 754 5613
Fax: 0844 858 3499
Email: victoria.pogge@mglaw.co.uk
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