Master advanced advocacy strategies to navigate complex immigration frameworks, build compelling cases, and deliver life-changing results for your clients.
Effective migration advocacy requires more than a thorough understanding of immigration law—it demands the ability to tailor legal strategy to the forum, evidentiary requirements, and applicable standard of review. Whether challenging visa refusals, responding to character cancellations, pursuing judicial review, or seeking ministerial intervention, practitioners must make strategic decisions that maximise the prospects of a successful outcome.
This practical course provides a structured framework for advocacy across Australia's migration decision-making pathway. Participants will explore advocacy techniques for departmental submissions, tribunal proceedings, judicial review, and ministerial intervention while developing practical strategies for presenting evidence, identifying legal issues, and navigating complex migration matters.
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Principal Lawyer & Founder | Crossover Law Group
Marial Lewis is the founder of Crossover Law Group and one of Australia's foremost immigration lawyers. She is one of only 52 NSW Law Society Accredited Specialists in Immigration Law nationally, a designation awarded to lawyers who demonstrate an exceptional level of knowledge, skill and experience in their field. Marial holds a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Legal Practice from the Australian National University. She is a teaching fellow at UNSW Law School and a lecturer in the Graduate Diploma of Migration Law, directly shaping the next generation of immigration practitioners. She is named in the Best lawyers Migration Law list for three consecutive years since 2023 and was named among Australia's Most Influential Leading Lawyers. She has appeared consecutively in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Migration Law and internationally in Who's Who Legal Corporate Migration Future Leaders. Her recognition spans four consecutive years as a national award finalist. Over more than a decade in practice, Marial has achieved results for hundreds of clients in complex cases, including clients in immigration detention, appeals before the Administrative Review Tribunal, Federal Circuit Court, Federal Court and the High Court of Australia. She advises startups, entrepreneurs, and multinational corporations on strategic workforce mobility. Marial sits on the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee of the International Bar Association and the NSW Law Society Specialist Accreditation Committee for the Migration Law Accreditation Program.
