Lily Parrott

I'm a Solicitor in the Public Law department at Duncan Lewis, specialising in the intersection of immigration/asylum, public and human rights law. I supervise a small team of caseworkers under the direction of Toufique Hossain. I believe in always putting our clients at the heart of our work while maintaining high-quality representation.

Since joining in March 2019, I have developed a practice supporting vulnerable people, including those in detention/prison, suffering from complex physical and/or mental health issues, and victims of torture, sexual violence and trafficking with their asylum claims, NRM referrals, fresh claims, and appeals at the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, and Court of Appeal. I'm developing a particular specialism in working on gender and sexuality-based claims, as well as with people facing deportation.

I enjoy and have extensive experience of challenging imminent removals including from the Rwanda flight, under the UK-France agreement, and on charter flights. I also regularly work to challenge both the reasons for and conditions of detention, then follow this through to civil litigation.

Within public law, I do judicial reviews both for individual clients and strategic litigation on issues engaging immigration, public law, and human rights law. My notable work includes:

• Leading a cohort of 11 claims challenging the Public Order Disqualifications (PODs) of our clients from the National Referral Mechanism;
• Testing, through various cases, the policy governing when victims of trafficking ought to granted Temporary Permission to Stay as such, pursuant to s.65 Nationality & Borders At 2022;
• Clarifying the assessment of suitability of accommodation within Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016 (R (Thye Loi Ho) v SSHD [2025] EWHC 2641 (Admin);
• Developing a challenge to the Home Office's use of Article 13(2) Dublin III regulations to remove asylum seekers who had arrived to the UK by boat to France; the unlawful use of this provision was later admitted by the SSHD within civil proceedings;
• Leading a case on the use of GPS ankle tags on asylum seekers and foreign national offenders released on immigration bail (ADL & Ors v SSHD [2024]);
• Acting as junior in a challenge of the Home Office's failure to provide effective access to justice to women detained at Derwentside IRC;
• Assisting with a successful challenge of trafficking maternity payments.
Finally, I engage in litigation for damages for false imprisonment and other civil claims, including currently leading a group civil claim for 11 victims of trafficking seeking compensation for breach of legitimate expectation.

In my role, I have spoken to multiple media sources including The Guardian and The Independent about our vital legal work and its role in giving the most vulnerable access to justice. I regularly work with and alongside charities as a means of making law more accessible and inclusive.

I'm a co-director of London Migration Film Festival, the leading project of Migration Collective, which has been running since 2016. The aim of Migration Collective is to challenge the narrow rhetoric on migration that often sees migration, and people on the move, framed in reductive and dehumanising binaries. I'm also on the board of Border Violence Monitoring Network and Making Tracks.

Before joining Duncan Lewis, I was a manager of refugee services and international family tracing at the British Red Cross in Kent & Sussex, where I worked primarily with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, vulnerable migrants, and people in immigration detention.

• LLM Legal Practice and LPC - University of Westminster
• Common Professional Examination, CPE - London South Bank University
• Migration, Mobility & Development, MSc - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
• Philosophy & Psychology, MA (Hons) - University of St Andrews

• Admitted to the solicitor's roll on 20 January 2022
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors (March 2019 - Present)
• Deighton Pierce Glynn (2018)
• Advocates Abroad (2018)
• Migration Collective (2016 - Present)
• British Red Cross (2014 - 2017)

High Court

• R (on the application of Thye Loi Ho) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 2641 (Admin): Her Honour Judge Belcher held that, for immigration bail accommodation, the Home Secretary is required to assess the suitability of accommodation under the Schedule 10 Policy Guidance before making an allocation of accommodation. In particular, the Home Secretary is required by the policy to identify whether “there are accommodation related needs based on the persons disability, medical needs or vulnerabilities”. If so, then “the level and type of accommodation allocated will vary according to individual needs”.


• ADL and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 994 (Admin): This case concerned the Secretary of State’s round-the-clock GPS surveillance of people on immigration bail, carried out using an ankle-worn GPS tracker which logs their location every minute and generates a detailed record of their movements. Mr Justice Lavender held, amongst other things, that the failure to consider whether the imposition of the condition would be impractical or contrary to ECHR rights meant that the interference with those rights was not “in accordance with the law” for the purposes of Article 8. The Judge also recorded that there was no good reason for the Secretary of State’s departure from his published policy by failing to conduct quarterly reviews.


• R (SPM) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 2007 (Admin)
• R (Nima Bari) v (1) Central Kent Magistrates' Court (2) Canterbury Crown Court (3) Secretary of State for Justice

• Supervising senior caseworker, Immigration and Asylum Accreditation
• Senior Caseworker, Immigration and Asylum Accreditation

• Court of Appeal to Hear Challenge on Adequacy of Asylum Accommodation at Wethersfield Barracks (16 December 2025)
• Immigration Detention Solicitors: Client Awarded £60,000 (28 October 2025)
• Duncan Lewis Secures Permission to Challenge Home Office Over Immigration Status of Trafficking Victims (9 July 2025)
• Home Office Agrees to Settle GPS Electronic-Tagging Court of Appeal Case Ahead of Final Hearing (25 June 2025)
• Judicial Review into Home Secretary’s GPS Surveillance of Migrants as a Bail Condition Begins Today (5 December 2023)
• Appeal granted in challenge to lack of face-to-face legal representation at Derwentside (27 January 2023)
• Five Duncan Lewis clients challenge the consultation on the Home Office’s new plan for immigration (9 June 2021)
• Public law department’s work to stop charter flight removals to France garners widespread coverage (Multiple sources) (13 August 2020)
• Home Office restarts deportation of asylum seekers despite coronavirus fears (The Independent) (7 August 2020)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ legal challenge leads to changes to the financial support rates provided by the modern slavery Victim Care Contract (1 July 2020)
• Home Office deporting migrants who cross Channel in small boats (The Guardian) (22 May 2020)