Maya practices in immigration, employment, public, civil liberties and human rights law, with a particular focus on work at the intersections between these areas. She has appeared as a led junior in cases before the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
Maya joined Garden Court as a tenant in October 2025, after completing pupillage under the supervision of Nicola Braganza KC and Tom Wainwright.
Before pupillage, Maya worked on corporate accountability for rights violations in garment industry supply chains at Labour Behind the Label, as part of a global network of trade unions and campaigning organisations. In the years prior to that, she worked in the legal team of a grassroots trade union of predominantly migrant and precarious workers, representing members in all stages of Employment Tribunal proceedings.
Maya is a partner of the Legal Centre Lesvos, a Greek NGO that defends migrants rights through legal information, representation and advocacy, as part of movements resisting border imperialism and state violence. Before becoming a partner, she worked for LCL in various capacities, including on asylum cases, criminal defence, advocacy and ECtHR applications concerning inhumane conditions and collective expulsions.
Immigration Law
Overview
Maya is regularly instructed in asylum, human rights and deportation appeals before the First-tier Tribunal. She takes a trauma-informed approach to this work and often acts for clients who have survived multiple forms of violence and exploitation. She has particular experience in the following areas:
- Asylum claims based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity;
- Asylum claims based on political belief;
- The interaction between immigration and criminal law (e.g. appeals against deportation for people with criminal convictions);
- The intersection between labour exploitation and the border regime (e.g. advice relating to tied visas, temporary worker visas, trafficking).
Maya has significant experience helping clients secure freedom from immigration detention. She regularly acts in bail matters before the First-tier tribunal and is able to advise on public and civil claims arising from administrative detention.
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Employment and Discrimination
Overview
Maya represents workers in individual and group claims before the Employment Tribunal. She has particular experience in trade union matters, claims under the Equality Act and intersections between labour law and immigration issues (workers without a right to reside, temporary, flexible and agency workers, worker status, discrimination on grounds of race, nationality).
Maya is also developing a practice in belief claims under the Equality Act and employment law challenges under the Human Rights Act.
From 2021-2022, Maya worked in the legal team of a small independent trade union of predominantly migrant and precarious workers. She represented over 100 members in individual and group claims at all stages of Tribunal proceedings, from preliminary advice to settlement or final hearing. Her caseload included claims for wages, worker status, whistleblowing, trade union victimisation, and discrimination claims under the Equality Act as part of members’ fight against outsourcing and its production of two-tier workforces with conditions differentiated along racialised and gendered lines.
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Public Law
Civil Liberties and Human Rights
International
Overview
Maya has experience in international human rights law, international labour law and business and human rights and is interested in accepting work in these areas.
As part of the Legal Centre Lesvos team, Maya worked on various applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). These included a number of successful interim measures applications for clients facing inhumane living conditions and applications concerning violent collective expulsions (‘pushbacks’) of hundreds of migrants from Greek territorial waters to Turkey (H.T. and Others v Greece, no. 4177/21; S.A.A. and Others v Greece, no. 22146/21). Maya remains involved in LCL’s work.
At Labour Behind the Label, Maya worked on corporate accountability for rights violations in globalised garment supply chains. She worked alongside trade unionists in factories around the world to increase the leverage of organised workers producing wealth for fashion corporations in the global north, through arguments based on international labour law, UN guiding principles on business and human rights and European supply chain due diligence legislation.
