Public law team wins Best Contribution by a Law Firm award for high profile case Read more...
The No Walls Podcast looks at the role of journalism and the role it plays in the immigration and asylum sphere. Read more...
'Our client was repeatedly let down during his detention and wants ensure this does not happen to anyone else,' says solicitor Jamie Bell Read more...
Home Office moves all detainees to new accommodation following pre-action letter Read more...
Team in the running for Best Contribution by a Law Firm award after judges acknowledge Rwanda challenge work Read more...
Judgements! (Season 2:Episode 2) is available to stream now and features some illustrious guests discussing their favourite cases Read more...
Duncan Lewis' Shalini Patel adds voice to Helen Bamber Foundation report laying bare 'Abuse by the System' Read more...
Decision is a "major victory as it will provide a potential way out of Afghanistan for them and others in their situation" Read more...
Duncan Lewis public law director backs calls for Government action on behalf of trafficking victims Read more...
The public law team at Duncan Lewis Solicitors is continuing to lead the challenge to the Government’s controversial plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda. Read more...
Duncan Lewis launches judicial review challenge to government Windrush scheme which denies victims access to their rightful compensation Read more...
Families of some of the 27 people who drowned trying to cross the English Channel last year have welcomed an announcement that a full independent inquiry will take place. Read more...
In MS (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CA-2021-001938), MS challenged the UT judge’s decisions on both the error of law hearing and the legal reasoning employed in support of its decision to dismiss MS’ appeal on Art 8 grounds at the substantive hearing. Read more...
There has been much controversy over the recommendations of the Faulks report into judicial review reform, writes public law director James Packer in the latest edition of ILPA. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce Jamie Bell has been shortlisted in the public law category of the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards 2022. Read more...
The Home Office has withdrawn the Pushbacks policy, a week before the final judicial review hearing on it. Read more...
The High Court passed down an interim judgment on 13 April 2022 in three cases challenging the Home Office’s ‘pushback’ policy which details the tactical plan of the SSHD to send migrant vessels out of UK waters and back to France. Read more...
In R (Duncan Lewis) v The Director of Legal Aid Casework and the Lord Chancellor (CO/746/2022), we challenged the refusal to backdate funding for Queen’s Counsel in a claim for judicial review of the Government’s treatment of British nationals and their families who could not be evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Pitting. Read more...
A former England boxer and Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ client who we successfully represented in a lengthy battle to remain in the UK has notched up two more victories – his first professional boxing bouts. Read more...
Our public law team has been shortlisted for a top accolade at the Wales Legal Awards 2022 for their dedication to improving access to justice. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce that public law director Ahmed Aydeed has been nominated as Partner of the Year in the Birmingham Law Society (BLS) Awards. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors has issued a judicial review against the Secretary of State for the Home Department and her failure to provide access to in-person legal advice to women refugees in Derwentside immigration removal centre. Read more...
The Claimants are a British national and his Afghan wife and children. They were not evacuated by the UK Government in August 2021 and remain in Afghanistan where they fear for their lives on account of their connection to the UK. Read more...
Public law solicitor Maria Petrova-Collins has been acknowledged by Forbes Bulgaria in the social entrepreneurship category, for her hard work on behalf of the most marginalised people in society. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is representing the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Care4Calais in a judicial review claim challenging the lawfulness of the Home Office’s policy of redirecting migrant boats out of UK waters and back to France (the Pushbacks Policy). Read more...