Lawyer in the news: Toufique Hossain, Duncan Lewis (The Law Gazette) (9 March 2020)

Public law director Toufique Hossain was featured in The Law Society Gazette. The feature outlines his role in obtaining a court injunction last month on behalf of Detention Action, to stop the Home Office deporting individuals on a charter flight to Jamaica. Toufique relayed his thoughts on the case stating: “We have experience in urgent removal work but what we wanted to achieve here was ambitious. To take on several individual cases and develop an important strategic challenge at the same time was intense work.” On the widened media interest in the Jamaican cases he notes: “…what has perhaps made this story so striking is that the media, and the public at large, now see that the government’s deportation regime is not populated with tabloid caricatures, but our neighbours and friends. Deportation is cruel and the net is case wide.”