Andrew Jones

About Andrew Jones

Andrew graduated with a 1st class degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Derby and went on to do postgraduate research in the same subject. He joined Wilsons as a senior immigration caseworker in 2011 and qualified as a solicitor in 2015. Prior to joining Wilsons, Andrew was a senior caseworker at the Refugee Legal Centre. Previously, he worked as an accredited police station advisor and as a housing advisor in a young offenders institute

Andrew specialises in immigration, asylum and human rights law and represents both private and legally aided clients. He has a particular interest in criminal deportation cases and has extensive experience of working with vulnerable adults, including those with serious mental and physical health issues.

Andrew is currently representing environmental activist Marcus Decker in his appeal against deportation. Marcus was jailed for 2 years and 7 months after being convicted of causing a public nuisance when he climbed the Dartford Crossing bridge in a Just Stop Oil protest in October 2022. Many public figures provided statements of support of Marcus. In November 2025, the First Tier Tribunal allowed the appeal.

He acted in an important challenge to the legality of the ‘deport first, appeal later’ regime introduced by the Immigration Act 2014, a case which led to two reported Upper Tribunal decisions: AJ (s 94B: Kiarie and Byndloss questions) Nigeria [2018] UKUT 00115 (IAC) and Juba (s.94B: access to lawyers) [2021] UKUT 95 (IAC) .

In 2021 Andrew represented Osime Brown, a vulnerable young Jamaican man with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, in an appeal against deportation following criminal convictions. The case had gained significant publicity due to campaigning by Osime’s family. Andrew submitted detailed medical evidence and evidence on the treatment of people with autism in Jamaica, including from organisations in the country. Very unusually, following Andrew’s representations, the Home Office withdrew the decision to deport Osime and granted him leave to remain.

Andrew has experience in cases involving deprivation of citizenship and challenges to refusals of visit visas.

Recent examples of Andrew’s practice are:

– Successfully challenging a Home Office decision to revoke a client’s British citizenship. The appeal was allowed in the First Tier Tribunal on the grounds that the Home Office had failed to properly exercise its discretion in making the decision.

– Obtaining a grant of refugee status for a Belarussian client who had been arrested and detained during popular protests following the Presidential election there in August 2020.

– Preventing the removal at very short notice of a young US citizen who had lived in the UK since he was 1 year old.

– Successfully challenging a Home Office decision to deport a young Somali man. While preparing his case, the client was diagnosed HIV+. Andrew obtained significant evidence of the discrimination and ill-treatment that people living with HIV in Somalia face, including direct evidence from NGOs working with those living with HIV in Mogadishu. The appeal was allowed on the grounds that the treatment his client faced would amount to inhuman and degrading treatment and a breach of Article 3 of the ECHR.

In 2023 Andrew represented the Appellants in Abdi and Ors v Entry Clearance Officer [2023] EWCA Civ 1455 . The Court of Appeal found that the First Tier Tribunal had been wrong to dismiss the appeal on the basis of a point that had not been raised by the Home Office or the judge during the hearing. That had been unfair because the Appellants had had no opportunity to respond to the point before the decision was made.

Andrew is a member of the Haldane Society .

Interests : politics, history and art

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