We are pleased to announce that public law solicitor Sangeetha Vairavamoorthy has been awarded the Society of Asian Lawyers’ Rising Star Award at the Asian Legal Awards 2021. Read more...
The High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary breached the human rights of two members of the Windrush generation when she refused to recognise them as British citizens. Read more...
Our London based public law team has been instructed by the UN Special Rapporteur to intervene in the forthcoming Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) case of R v AAD, AAH and AAI. Read more...
On 28 October 2021, the Upper Tribunal quashed a Home Office decision to refuse to transfer an Afghan boy living alone in Greece to live with his uncle and grandmother in the UK. Read more...
We are delighted to reveal that our public law director James Packer has been Highly Commended for the Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award and public law solicitor Jeremy Bloom has won the Junior Lawyer of the Year at the 2021 Law Society Excellence Awards. Read more...
High Court grants permission to apply for judicial review in challenge to the Home Secretary’s failure to publish guidance on the requirement to give ‘informed consent’ to withdraw from the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and the unlawful imposition of reporting conditions by the Home Secretary, after grant of High Court bail. Read more...
The SSHD refused to grant the Claimants’ discretionary leave to remain as victims of trafficking/modern slavery based on their personal circumstances. Read more...
In The Queen on the Application of MS (Afghanistan) v SSHD, we brought Judicial Review proceedings, with the Claimant seeking to challenge the decision to cease his asylum support on 19 February 2020. Read more...
The Claimants are challenging the lawfulness of the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s consultation on the New Plan for Immigration which ran from 24 March to 6 May 2021 Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards. Read more...
High Court rules Secretary of State for the Home Department has committed ‘a colossal interference’ in the right to family life of a Windrush victim Read more...
Public law solicitor Jamie Bell is named The Times' Lawyer of the Week due to his work acting for Ahmed Lawal, a key witness to the death of his friend Oscar Okwurime in an immigration detention centre Read more...
This application for judicial review arose following the death of Oscar Lucky Okwurime on 12 September 2019 in immigration detention, in his cell at IRC Harmondsworth Read more...
The Court of Appeal has today unanimously found that it was irrational for the Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘SSHD’) to not have obtained medical information about the torture claims of two vulnerable immigration detainees who were detained under immigration powers in prison Read more...
RK is a Pakistani national who was a victim of forced marriage in Pakistan. She had fled to the UK as a student where she was able to get a divorce and start a new life. Read more...
This case involved an appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) against a decision to deprive the Appellant of his British Citizenship on grounds of national security. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors welcomes the news that the Penally Camp used to hold asylum seekers from September 2020 is set to close on 21 March 2021. Read more...
In a landmark judgment of the High Court today, Mr Justice Swift declared that the arrangements for immigration detainees held in prisons to access immigration and asylum legal aid are unlawful. Read more...
Our client challenges the decision of the Secretary of State for Home Department (SSHD) to assess his age as being over 25 years old upon arriving in the United Kingdom to claim asylum Read more...
The Home Office has decided not to proceed with its plans to house up to 200 asylum seekers in prefabricated temporary accommodation on the site of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Read more...
Duncan Lewis’ clients, MAK and TM, fled their countries of origin due to persecution. On their way to the UK, they passed through Libya. Read more...
An update on Eritrea Focus’ legal challenge against the UK government’s funding and support to the EU Trust Fund for Africa's ‘Reconnecting Eritrea and Ethiopia through rehabilitation of the main arterial roads in Eritrea’ development project in Eritrea. Read more...
YY v Ministry of Defence raises questions about the suitability of the Bureaucratic Delays and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy Read more...