Jamie Kerr

Jamie Kerr is a specialist immigration law partner of Burness Paull and has extensive experience across the entire field of immigration, visa, nationality and refugee law. He is recognised as a leading individual in Legal 500. He has a very broad client base and acts for businesses and individuals from around the world. He has also acted for overseas governments and he deals with all aspects of UK visa law and policy. He regularly appears in the courts dealing with complex immigration and visa issues. Jamie has been Co-Convenor of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association’s Scotland Committee and sat on the Scottish board of the Confederation of British Industry and the Scottish Government’s Strategic Labour Market Review Group. He is a regular speaker and commentator on issues around migration, including the importance of global mobility and attracting international talent and investment to the UK. He tutors human rights law at the University of Glasgow and has lectured on immigration law issues in the UK, US, Europe and in the Far East. He sat on the Council of the WS Society and holds a Commission as a Writer to the Signet.