In The Press Articles
Victims of trafficking have increased protection following a successful court order, Duncan Lewis’ Maria Thomas tells the Guardian (27 July 2023)
All potential trafficking victims must be assessed for support, the High court has ruled following a challenge to a new policy introduced by the Go Read more...
Home Office plans to scrap housing protections ‘threatens the safety of asylum seekers’ Sheroy Zaq tells The Guardian (16 June 2023)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is representing three families in a legal challenge against Home Office plan to ditch housing safeguards for asylum seekers Read more...
Dead neighbour complaints ignored by landlord for 2 years, Duncan Lewis clients tell BBC (3 April 2023)
Duncan Lewis clients have been discussing the harrowing case of their dead neighbour who was to left rot in her flat for two years, despite complai Read more...
Government’s Small Boat Plan ‘Completely Unworkable’ Jeremy Bloom tells Channel 4 (10 March 2023)
Government plans to remove migrants who cross the channel in a boat and ban them from returning is ‘unworkable’, public law solicitor Jeremy Bloom has Read more...
Duncan Lewis instructed inquest into Keyham shooting featured in the Plymouth Herald (27 February 2023)
The siblings of Plymouth shooter Jake Davison again called for sweeping changes to UK gun laws following the last of two inquests into the killings Read more...
Crucial Duncan Lewis challenge on behalf of Windrush victim covered in the Independent (21 February 2023)
A High Court compensation challenge on behalf of 82-year-old Windrush scandal victim left unable to work or claim benefits for 34 years featured in Read more...
Kind-hearted refugee ‘can’t thank solicitor enough’ after winning leave to remain, the Guardian reports (6 December 2022)
Heroic refugee who brought his badly injured niece to the UK for treatment has been granted leave to remain after six years thanks to his Duncan Le Read more...
Hairdressing training provider enlists Duncan Lewis to fight ‘inadequate’ Ofsted ruling (Herts Mercury) (24 November 2022)
A Hemel Hempstead hairdresser-training centre which Ofsted graded “Inadequate” has enlisted Duncan Lewis Solicitors to challenge the decision, repo Read more...
Hairdressing apprenticeship provider challenges damning Ofsted ruling (FE Week) (8 November 2022)
A long-running hairdressing apprenticeship provider has enlisted Duncan Lewis Solicitors to challenge a damaging Ofsted grade. UK Training & Read more...
Duncan Lewis representing charity and asylum seeker in Manston centre challenge (4 November 2022)
Duncan Lewis’ has taken the first steps in challenging the conditions of detainees at the controversial Manston centre on behalf of a charity and a Read more...
Home Secretary showing “total disregard for the rule of law” at migrant processing centre, Duncan Lewis' Toufique Hossain tells the Guardian (31 October 2022)
The Home Office has come under fire for breaching humane conditions at a migrant processing centre in Kent. Officials have already admitted Read more...
GPS tagging should be abolished says report, as Duncan Lewis legal challenges continue (The Guardian) (31 October 2022)
A report into the practice of electronically tagging people on immigration bail says the practice amounts to ‘psychological torture’. Every Read more...
Appellants wanting to rely upon witness evidence by video from abroad face ominous news (Free Movement) (19 October 2022)
That a tribunal concerned with immigration matters should receive applications for witnesses to be permitted to give evidence from abroad by video Read more...
Single Father’s Right to Work Limbo Prompts Home Office Policy Review (Free Movement) (13 October 2022)
A Home Office decision to review its policy Fee waiver: Human Rights-based and other specified applications following a judicial review by Duncan L Read more...
Ahmed Aydeed raises child safeguarding concerns about Immigration Enforcement Scheme with the Guardian (4 October 2022)
Duncan Lewis’ immigration specialist Ahmed Aydeed raises serious concerns over Operation Innerste’s handling of vulnerable children arriving in the Read more...
Government U-turn on Albanian Asylum Seekers a “Victory for Decency” (The Guardian) (28 September 2022)
The Government has conceded that a heavily touted removal scheme designed to deport Albanians arriving in the UK back to Albania will not affect as Read more...
Ruling on recusal case led by Ivan Dimitrov featured in the Times (1 August 2022)
A case instructed by Ivan Dimitrov sheds light on the issue of when a judge should raise the fact they were considering referring counsel to the Ba Read more...
Cruel Home Office tagging policy ‘unworkable,’ trainee solicitor Jonah Mendelsohn tells The Independent (July 12) (18 July 2022)
Most asylum seekers being threatened with removal to Rwanda are not being tagged on release from detention despite the Home Office piloting a polic Read more...
Yorkshire villagers furious at secret migrant detention plan (Observer) (3 May 2022)
Villagers are concerned about a proposed immigration facility in North Yorkshire they suspect is to be secretly used as a detention centre, the Observ Read more...
Channel “pushbacks” policy abandoned (Free Movement) (28 April 2022)
The controversial “pushback” proposal to return migrant boats in the English Channel to France has been quietly dropped by the Home Office ahead of a Read more...
Courts condemn Home Office and CPS in two separate trafficking cases (The Guardian) (18 March 2022)
The original case against the Home Office was brought by Duncan Lewis Solicitors on behalf of a 33-year-old Vietnamese woman, who was a victim of sex Read more...
Victim of brutal domestic abuse loses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship (Free Movement) (10 March 2022)
A barbarically treated woman has lost her appeal against a decision to remove her British citizenship, despite a panel recognising the trauma she suff Read more...
Home Office faces legal action over claims women at risk of deportation being refused in-person legal advice (The Justice Gap) (25 February 2022)
The Home Office is facing the prospect of a judicial review after the campaign group Women for Refugee Women (WRW) found that detainees at Derwentside Read more...
Home Office tells Afghan and Yemeni asylum seekers they can return safely (The Guardian) (13 January 2022)
Duncan Lewis is representing a 21-year-old Afghan refugee who was told it is safe for him to return, despite more than 600,000 people fleeing the Tali Read more...