Dominic Chambers

• BA (Hons) in Classics, University of Oxford (1st)
• MA in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (Distinction)

• Caseworker at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (January 2023 - Present)

High Court

• D1914 and AAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2024-LON-002158) - ongoing Judicial Review into the government's failure to implement the recommendation of the Brook House Inquiry.


• R(AH and IS) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2024-LON-000816) - ongoing Judicial Review of the lawfulness of the Claimant’s immigration detention; the lawfulness of the Defendant’s use of force, segregation, and strip search upon the Claimant; and the failure of the Defendant to follow its own policy as well as Detention Centre Rules 34 and 35, leading to a potential Article 3 ECHR ‘systems’ breach in terms of the overall failure of the immigration detention system to provide adequate safeguards for vulnerable detainees.


• R(Twala) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2023-LON-002928) - successful Judicial Review of the Defendant’s decision to exclude the Claimant from the UK. News article here.


• R(AK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2023-LON-003316) - ongoing Judicial Review into the procedural fairness of the Home Office’s complaints procedure.


• R(Barizi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWHC 3491 (Admin) – successful Judicial Review into the failure of the Defendant to provide Schedule 10 accommodation. Published judgment of Ellenbogen J.


• R(MT) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2023-LON-001114) - successful Judicial Review of the lawfulness of the Claimant’s detention. The Home Secretary agreed to pay damages of £105,000 and accepted liability for the unlawfulness of the entire period of the Claimant’s detention (250 days), as well as a breach of Article 3 ECHR through failure to ensure consistent access to anti-psychotic medication for his mental illness (Schizophrenia), and a breach of the Public Sector Equality Duty through a failure to have due regard to the need for an evacuation plan adjusted for disabled detainees. I wrote an article about this case which was published here.


• R(AK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/4703/2022) and R(AJ) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/4709/2022) - successful Judicial Review of events surrounding the evacuation of Harmondsworth IRC in November 2022. The Home Secretary was found to have breached the Public Sector Equality Duty in respect of both Claimants for his failure to consider the need for an evacuation plan with reasonable adjustments for disabled detainees, and Article 3 ECHR rights of AJ for failing to ensure he was provided with essential HIV medication. AK received £45,000 in damages, AJ received £25,000. Press release here: https://gardencourtchambers.co.uk/home-secretary-admits-to-article-3-echr-breach-and-equality-act-breach-during-harmondsworth-irc-evacuation/. Press release here.

Civil Court

• The Cranston Inquiry – public inquiry into the deaths of at least 27 migrants whose boat capsized on the night of 23/24 November 2021. We represent one of the two survivors as well as the family members of the 27 victims, who are full participants in the inquiry. https://cranston.independent-inquiry.uk.

• Level 2 IAAS Senior Caseworker

• Cranston Inquiry to hear from survivor of 2021 Channel Tragedy (4 March 2025)
• Home Office Admits Unlawfully Detaining Person with Severe Mental Illness After Legal Claim (6 February 2024)
• Duncan Lewis Clients Prevail as Home Secretary Admits Harmondsworth IRC Evacuation Human Rights and Equality Breaches (30 November 2023)
• Permission for Judicial Review Granted in Challenge to Harmondsworth Evacuation Response (19 April 2023)