Natasha Barnes

Call 2010

“I am trying and failing to think of a better junior. Her written work is up there with any barrister I can think of. She is clear, direct and a pleasure to work with. Incredibly clever and really in demand.”

Chambers and Partners 2024
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  • Recommendations

    Client/solicitor testimonials and legal directory recommendations:

    2024:

    Chambers and Partners

    Ranked in:

    • Immigration: “She is clear, direct and a pleasure to work with. She is incredibly clever and really in demand.” “Formidable but fair.”
    • Administrative & Public Law: “Natasha is really impressive and she has a very collaborative approach to working.” “She is very clever and hard-working.”
    • Tax: “Both an excellent drafter and really good on her feet.” “A very confident advocate, who presents authoritatively.”
    • Civil Liberties and Human Rights: “I am trying and failing to think of a better junior. Her written work is up there with any barrister I can think of. She is clear, direct and a pleasure to work with. Incredibly clever and really in demand.”

    The Legal 500

    Ranked in:

    • Tax – VAT and Excise: Rising Star
    • Administrative Law and Human Rights: Leading Junior
    • Immigration: “Natasha is extremely bright, quick to see the key points in a case and very good on her feet. She has a real in-depth knowledge of Immigration law.”

    2023:

    Chambers & Partners

    Ranked in:

    • Tax: “Natasha is great at cross-examining and compelling in terms of her oral submissions”. “She is very crisp and on point with submissions, and just an excellent advocate”.
    • Administrative & Public Law: “Natasha is a really excellent junior: very bright, efficient and utterly dependable”. “She is extremely good with clients and really nice to work with”.
    • Civil Liberties: “An excellent practitioner”

    Legal 500:

    Ranked in:

    • Administrative Law & Human Rights: ‘Superb written work. Excellent client skills. A very reliable team player.’   
    • Immigration: ‘Superb written work. Excellent client skills. A very reliable team player.’   
    • VAT & Excise: A rising star.

    2022:

    Chambers & Partners

    Ranked in:

    • Administrative & Public Law: ‘She is incredibly diligent, reliable and an excellent team member. It’s a really great experience working with her.’ ‘A fantastic, extremely hard-working junior barrister.’
    • Human Rights: ‘Natasha Barnes is brilliant. I would recommend her very highly.’
    • Immigration: ‘An intelligent and thoughtful junior who is impressive.’
    • Indirect Tax: ‘She argues her cases well, is bright and has great judgment.’ ‘She is hard-working and has a very strong understanding of tax law.’

    Legal 500:

    Ranked in:

    • Administrative & Public Law: ‘She is very clever and hard-working. She has great judgement – you feel much better knowing that she is in the team.’
    • Immigration: ‘Very thorough and one of the best juniors around at drafting.’
    • VAT: ‘Extremely hard working and a strategic thinker. Excellent client manner. Efficient. Responsive. A pleasure to work with. A highly talented all rounder.’

    Comments from previous directories:

    • ‘She is very responsible and always goes the extra mile. Very bright and easy to get along with’. ‘She is very responsible and always goes the extra mile.’ (C&P 2021)
    • ‘A rising star with enormous capacity for hard work. She grasps the technical detail extremely well and is superb on her feet too.’ (Legal 500 2020).

  • Beyond the Bar

    Away from work, Natasha loves the outdoors and enjoys trying to improve her cooking.

  • Education

    Called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn): July 2010

    BVC at BBP Law School, London – James Crouch Scholar

    CPE at City Law School, London – Gray’s Inn Scholar

    BA Hons in History at Cambridge – Dorothy Forster Sturman Scholar, Ligner Scholar  

  • Appointments

    Attorney General’s Panel of Civil Counsel A Counsel – September 2022

  • News

Practice Overview

Natasha Barnes is a highly-regarded junior who acts in a variety of sensitive and complex cases focusing on judicial review, indirect tax and other areas of public and human rights law. She regularly appears before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court and the Tribunals (Tax and Immigration Chambers), often as sole counsel. She was recently commended by the Court of Appeal as ‘outstandingly able’.

Natasha advises and acts for a wide spectrum of clients including individuals, companies, public authorities and government departments.

She is ranked by the directories as a leading junior in Administrative and Public Law, Indirect Tax and Immigration. Recent directory comments have included ‘I am trying and failing to think of a better junior’, ‘superb on her feet’, ‘an excellent drafter’  and a ‘pleasure to work with’.

Natasha is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel.