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Public law solicitor Shalini Patel will be speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Tuesday (9th July) alongside Gemma Lousley from Women for Refugee Women (WFRW). Shalini will be discussing the work she does with victims of trafficking in the detention environment as well as the work WFRW has been carrying out in relation to an increasing number of phone calls from women originally from China who are detained in Yarl’s Wood.

Shalini has been working closely with WFRW on a briefing involving the detention of Chinese women in the UK, which has secured a parliamentary debate scheduled for 2:30pm on the same Tuesday. Shalini has significant expertise in the detention of Chinese women in the UK and is currently representing a Chinese woman who – after several years being exploited as a sex slave – was released from Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre and told to return to the address where she had previously been forced to work in the sex trade. Shalini has also represented a Chinese woman who was unlawfully detained for six months, despite her immigration history displaying clear indicators of trafficking and abuse.

Woman’s Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast by BBC Radio 4. Launched in 1946, it has been on air for over 70 years and consists of reports, interviews, and debates on cultural, social, and political topics aimed at women and mothers. Woman’s Hour is broadcast weekdays at 10am on BBC Radio 4, Shalini’s interview can be listened to live on the radio or via the BBC website and will be available to listen to afterwards via BBC Sounds.



About Shalini Patel

Shalini specialises in all aspects of immigration related judicial review claimant cases and acts primarily for publicly funded clients. She has conduct of various high-profile judicial review claims concerning issues such as; unlawful detention; removals to European countries under the Dublin Convention; and removals on asylum and human rights grounds. Many of her clients are vulnerable individuals and she has experience in handling challenges to policy/law relating to victims of trafficking, victims of torture, pregnant women and challenges against tagging conditions. She has also worked on other civil liberties based challenges against decisions made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

To contact Shalini, call 02031141132 or email shalinip@duncanlewis.com




Duncan Lewis Public Law Solicitors

The Duncan Lewis Public Law department continues to be recommended by Legal 500 with the 2019 edition reporting its 'strong presence in this area of the law, making a particularly dominant contribution in immigration, asylum and prison law.'

The Public law team has experience in all aspects of judicial review claimant work, including obtaining emergency orders and other interim relief to prevent breaches of human rights, following up judicial reviews with actions for damages in both the County and High Court and successfully pursuing judicial review matters to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. A particular focus is the team’s work handling cases of the deprivation of British citizenship and deportation threats, with a niche specialism in challenging the treatment of immigration detainees and other marginalised communities.

To contact a member of the public law team, call 033 3772 0409.