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Galina specialises in public and administrative law, acting for a range of individuals and public bodies in various tribunals and the higher courts. Recent cases have covered such diverse subjects as immigration detention, school exclusions and the rateability of ATM sites. She is a member of the Attorney General’s "B" Panel of Junior Counsel. She also has a wide-ranging practice in property litigation and experience of civil litigation generally, with a particular focus on costs matters.
Galina is recommended for Administrative and Public Law in the most recent edition of the Legal 500, where she is described as, ‘A star performer whose written work in particular is of the highest order.’ She is regularly instructed both for and against central and local government. In addition to the specialisms listed below, her recent work has covered prisons (including categorization and recall challenges), community care, social security (with a particular focus on tax credits), and child support.
Galina has been described in Chambers & Partners as commanding "huge respect" for her "great experience of representing individuals, schools and local authorities in Special Educational Needs and Disability appeals." She is also recommended in Legal 500, where she is reported to be "approachable, with good knowledge of the law". Galina has extensive experience of judicial review claims in education matters, ranging from exclusion and admissions to school organisation issues. Her work also includes acting on behalf of public bodies tasked with regulating those who work in education, as well as representing those subject to that regulation.
Galina specialises in representing individuals subject to immigration control. She frequently appears in the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal, and has acted in a large number of judicial review challenges to decisions of the immigration authorities. She has particular experience of civil claims for damages for unlawful detention. Galina is recommended for her work in immigration law in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 where she has been described as "a real brain-box who makes light work of her cases" and "incredibly gifted on her feet and popular with clients."
Galina regularly advises and appears on behalf of the Valuation Office Agency, billing authorities and individual ratepayers in both statutory appeals and liability order claims.
Galina acts for a diverse range of clients, from social housing tenants to major property companies, in all areas of commercial and residential landlord and tenant. She has particular expertise in claims under the Electronic Communications Code, in which she acts for both landowners and telecommunications operators. She is recommended for property litigation in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
Galina studied Law with German Law at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of Konstanz, Germany.
R (on the application of S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
R (on the application of LB by her litigation friend SB) v Independent Appeal Panel of Newport City Council & (1) Newport City Council (2) Governing Body of B Comprehensive School [2017] EWHC 2216 (Admin)
Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd & 5 ors v Chris Sykes & ors (Valuation Officers) [2017] UKUT 138 (LC)
R (on the application of Ronald Dalton) v Secretary of State for Work for Work & Pensions [2017] EWHC 213 (Admin)
King's Lynn & West Norfolk Council v Michelle Paula Bunning [2016] EWCA Civ 1037
R (on the application of Duncan Lewis Solicitors) v Lord Chancellor [2015] EWHC 2498 (Admin)
John Reeves (Listing Officer) v Randy Northrop [2013] EWCA Civ 362
Disclosure & Barring Service (Formerly Independent Safeguarding Authority) v Peter Harvey [2013] 1 WLR 2867, [2013] RA 295, [2013] PTSR 1256
Alexey Pallovich Buydov v Entry Clearance Officer, Moscow [2012] EWCA Civ 1739
Independent Safeguarding Authority v SB & Royal College of Nursing (Intervener) [2012] EWCA Civ 977
Judith Elizabeth Wilson v Josephine Coll (Listing Officer) [2011] EWHC 2824 (Admin)
R (on the application of AM) v Secretary Of State For The Home Department : R (on the application of SS) v Secretary Of State For The Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 833
The Home Office's Iraq Policy Bulletin 2/2006 para.4.5 was not intended to cover an asylum seeker whose claim was refused before February 2003 because it was not accepted that he came from the government-controlled area of Iraq, notwithstanding that after that date it was accepted or established that he did in fact come from that area.
An independent appeal panel made an error of law in not making a finding of fact on a particular issue that might have affected its view on whether permanent exclusion was an appropriate sanction for what it found that the excluded pupil had done.
R (M) V Sutton London Borough Council [2007] EWCA Civ 1205
A local education authority not required to specify an alternative suitable school when naming the school preferred by parents.
West Bromwich Building Society v Mash
L&C Investments Ltd v Chevis
T-Mobile, 3G & Orange v. FSS & Harrogate BC 12/11/04 - Court of Appeal [2004] EWCA Civ 1763
The legal framework inspections, appeals, consequences
Who is in paramount control?
Procedure - VTE and UT (LC) - Role of Experts