Bristol Law Centre
Contacts and offices
Who can get help
We provide skilled assessment, triage & signposting for social welfare legal issues. We may be able to offer free legal advice & casework, depending on how busy we are, our funding & your circumstances.
Bristol and beyond
Phone 01179248662, Monday-Friday, 9:30am-4:30pm
Help is free
Source: the organisation's website · checked 28 August 2026
Conditions are taken from the organisation’s own website. They change — check the organisation’s site before applying.
Who runs the cases
Names come only from verifiable sources: the IAA adviser register and the firm’s official team page. Teams change — confirm when you get in touch.
- Raphaela Frances Hunter Sattler — adviserIAA register · checked 28 August 2026
- Eva Brittin-Snell — adviserIAA register · checked 28 August 2026
- Adriana Gonçalves — Assessment & Support Supervisorfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Electra Doyle — Legal Advocacy Support Project Caseworkerfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Ellis Tyrrell — Trainee Solicitor (Justice First Fellow)firm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Gina Jones — Head of Servicesfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Georgia Barnes — Trainee Caseworkerfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Hana Cogingsford — Housing Solicitor & Supervisorfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Hannah MacDonald — Immigration Solicitorfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Hester Careless — Project Coordinator, South West Immigration Alliancefirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- John Bowen — Office Managerfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Karen Bowers — Chief Executive Officerfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
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- Kulveer Mangat — Assessment & Support Teamfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Mike Booker — Immigration Solicitor (Team Supervisor) & Senior Solicitorfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Raphaela Sattler — Trainee Immigration Caseworkerfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Rosanna Thompson — Legal Advocacy Support Project Coordinator & Caseworker (Maternity Leave)firm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Steffan Rees — Immigration & Asylum Solicitorfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
- Vicki West — Assessment & Support Teamfirm website · checked 28 August 2026
Upper Tribunal decisions
The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) hears appeals in immigration and asylum cases. In published decisions from 2026, this firm is named as representative in 1 case.
- 1 — sent back for rehearing / mixed outcome
The number of cases shows experience, not quality: strong firms often take the hardest cases. That is why we do not publish a “win rate” — that figure would mislead.
Example decisions
Links go to the official tribunal website. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence.
All tribunal decisions for 12 countries →Check the registration
Before you contact the firm, check that the registration is valid today — register entries change. The links go to the official registers.
Where the data comes from
- SRA register · checked 28 August 2026
- IAA register · checked 28 August 2026
- Legal aid directory (LAA edition of 9 July 2026)
- Upper Tribunal decisions · checked 28 August 2026
- Companies House · checked 28 August 2026
Includes data supplied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (LAA legal aid directory; Upper Tribunal decisions)
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