Tamara Smillie
Consultant
Contact Information
- Consultant
- Public Law
- City of London
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Profile / Experience
I am an experienced human rights and public law lawyer based in Duncan Lewis' City of London office. I have established a novel practice related to licensing applications under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 on human rights grounds.
Career
- Consultant Solicitor - Duncan Lewis Solicitors (August 2023 - Present)
Notable Cases
Court of Appeal
- HN and SA (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 123; a claim brought by 25 Afghan men who feared return to armed conflict in their home country, where a historic generic injunction preventing removal to Afghanistan was granted by the Court of Appeal which caused the suspension of removals by charter flight to Afghanistan.
High Court
- R (EB) v Director of Legal Aid Casework [2026] EWHC 402 (Admin); a case bought on behalf of a woman suffering with anorexia who benefitted from participation in a medical trial of psilocybin, who sought legal aid to make an unprecedented application to the Home Office for a licence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to allow her to be administered psilocybin by medical professionals (it is otherwise a schedule A drug).
- Mooge, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 427 (Admin); a case challenging detention on the basis of mistaken identity and where there was no effective deportation order in place.