Reported Case News
Duncan Lewis secures child’s placement with father in Re AB [2025] EWFC 492 (B) (12 March 2026)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors successfully represented a father in complex public law proceedings concerning the welfare of his six-year-old son, AB, in Re AB [2025] EWFC 492 (B)Read more...
High Court Refuses Adoption Application Involving Nigerian Restricted Country (2 March 2026)
Kathy Walker, Child Care Director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, represented the child through the Children’s Guardian in the High Court decision of DD v AF & Ors [202 Read more...
Duncan Lewis Client Secures High Court Victory in ‘Magic Mushroom Therapy’ Legal Aid Challenge (27 February 2026)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors has successfully represented the Claimant, EB, in a significant High Court judicial review concerning access to legal aid in a case involving “magic mushroom therapy” (psilocybin) for the treatment of severe ano Read more...
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment for a Child with Leigh Syndrome (24 February 2026)
Kathy Walker, Child Care Director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, represented the father in the recently published judgment of Cardiff and Read more...
Court of Appeal dismisses Government’s appeal in Afghan deportation case (24 February 2026)
The Court of Appeal dismisses the Secretary of State’s appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s determination that a vulnerable victim of modern slavery from Afghanistan faces a risk to his life and inhuman and degrading treatment on r Read more...
Successful Representation by Forida Hakim in A (Child: Fact-Finding Hearing) [2025] EWFC 219 (B) (8 October 2025)
Family & Child Care Director Forida Hakim successfully represented the Mother in the recently published judgement of A (Child: Fact-Findin Read more...
Successful Defence in Hague Convention Child Abduction Proceedings Mother and Child Remain in the UK (23 September 2025)
Family & Child Care Director, Adeeba Naseem, has successfully defended a mother facing proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention, securi Read more...
Successful Court of Appeal Outcome in Re F (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 911 (28 July 2025)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to report a significant success in the Court of Appeal, where Family & Child Care Director, Adeeba Naseem and caseworker Read more...
High Court Finds Home Office Complaints Process for Immigration Detainees Is Unfair (4 July 2025)
The High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s system for investigating complaints of mistreatment from immigration detainees is procedurally unfair. In a judgment handed down on Tuesday 1 July 2025 in AK v Secretary of Read more...
Duncan Lewis Secures Quashing of Home Office Negative Reasonable Grounds Decision – Fordham J Gives Useful Guidance on Various Aspects of the Reasonable Grounds Process. (1 May 2025)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors successfully represented the Claimant in a judicial review challenging the Home Office's Negative Reasonable Grounds (NRG) decision under the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), relating to the Claimant& Read more...
Brazilian Tourist Wrongfully Detained After Volunteering, High Court Rules (16 April 2025)
A Brazilian national was detained for eight weeks and had her permission to be in the United Kingdom as a visitor cancelled by the Home Office unlawfully, the High Court has ruled.
The claimant’s case was taken u Read more...
High Court Ruling on Asylum Claim Withdrawals and Support Termination Protects Asylum Seekers (24 March 2025)
High Court hands down judgement which confirms that the AST can examine the validity of the asylum withdrawal itself - ensuring that claimants were not wrongly removed from the asylum system.
On 21 March 2025, the cour Read more...
High Court Rules Kidnap for Ransom Constitutes Exploitation in Trafficking Claims (10 March 2025)
In a significant victory for victims of trafficking, the High Court has ruled that kidnap for ransom can constitute exploitation, overturning a Home Office decision that denied protection to an individual abducted and tortured for ransom.
< Read more...Supreme Court declares daughter of UK national wrongfully deprived of citizenship is British (26 February 2025)
The Supreme Court has unanimously held that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in refusing to recognise the daughter of a man wrongfully deprived of his UK citizenship, to be British.
The girl ZA was born during the p Read more...
“Duncan Lewis’ Housing Team Secures Landmark Court of Appeal Victory in Homelessness Case” (23 January 2025)
Duncan Lewis’ Housing team successfully represented the appellant in quashing Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council’s (WHBC) decision to refuse a second homelessness application accompanied by a ‘new’ medical expert report. The C Read more...
Duncan Lewis’ Represents Appellant as Court of Appeal Clarifies Rules on Service of “Notices” (D’Aubigny v Khan & Anor (2025) EWCA Civ 11) (21 January 2025)
The Court of Appeal has handed down a significant decision in Khan v D’Aubigny, providing critical Read more...