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Met police to compensate child slavery victim arrested after reporting ordeal (The Guardian) (12 December 2020)
The Metropolitan police is to pay £15,500 to a victim of slavery who tried to report his traffickers but was instead arrested for immigration offences Read more...
Home Office unlawfully failing to protect trafficking survivors from hostile environment, says High Court (Multiple Sources) (4 December 2020)
The High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s failure to prevent potential victims of trafficking from being treated as illegal immigrants is in Read more...
Asylum seekers forced to travel miles to sign on with Home Office during lockdown (The Independent) (16 November 2020)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are in the process of challenging Home Office policy which states that asylum seekers and victims of trafficking must trave Read more...
Priti Patel not following her own anti-trafficking policy, judge rules (The Guardian) (16 November 2020)
The Guardian reports on how the deportation of countless asylum seekers who arrived in the UK on small boats could be halted after a judge ruled th Read more...
Podcast: where are we at with legal aid for immigration appeals? (Free Movement) (6 November 2020)
Sonia Lenegan from the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) discusses the legal action carried out by Duncan Lewis Solicitors to comba Read more...
Fijian-born British soldiers lose latest legal fight to stay in UK (The Guardian) (28 October 2020)
The Guardian reports on the High Court’s decision to reject our call for judicial review of eight Commonwealth veterans’ immigration case. Immi Read more...
Home Office policy giving people little notice of deportation ruled unlawful (Multiple Sources) (21 October 2020)
The Independent and The Guardian report on how the Court of Appeal found that a Home Office policy on removing migrants from the UK without access Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors featured on Outside Source (BBC) (9 October 2020)
BBC’s Outside Source discussed the recent government and media attacks on lawyers representing asylum seekers which undermine the rule of law. Read more...
Legal aid solicitors 'threatened' after Mail on Sunday article (Law Gazette) (9 October 2020)
The Law Gazette reports on our statement addressing the recent attacks on the firm and legal aid which undermine the rule of law and an individual Read more...
How to pay inheritance tax (IHT) (The Gazette) (6 October 2020)
Wills and probate trainee solicitor Zeen Read more...
Brexit – and what after? (ALondon) (6 October 2020)
Efrat Shemesh contributed an article to ALondon on what the future holds for EU nationals who want to enjoy their free-movement right to live in th Read more...
Windrush scheme falls short of righting wrongs (Law Gazette) (2 October 2020)
Public law solicitor Jeremy Bloom writes in Read more...
Gay woman who was gang-raped after being unlawfully deported to Uganda wins court case against Home Office (The Independent) (28 September 2020)
A gay woman who was unlawfully deported from the UK to Uganda where she had been gang-raped has won in a court case against the Home Office. Th Read more...
Home Office U-turns after unlawfully slashing support for trafficking survivors during pandemic (The Independent) (22 September 2020)
The Home Office has made a U-turn on a decision to cut financial support for trafficking victims during the pandemic days before legal action is du Read more...
UK judge halts Home Office flight to remove asylum seekers (The Guardian) (17 September 2020)
A senior high court judge, Sir Duncan Ouseley, has halted an entire Home Office charter flight hours before up to 20 asylum seekers who crossed the Read more...
Home Office reinstates financial support of less than £4 a day for trafficking victims (The Justice Gap) (3 September 2020)
The Home Office has decided to reinstate financial support for trafficking victims after removing it earlier in the pandemic. Modern slavery su Read more...
‘No earthly reason’: Thousands of refugees denied sanctuary in UK after settlement scheme frozen during lockdown (The Independent) (2 September 2020)
The Home Office is being urged to reopen resettlement programmes amid warnings of refugees being stuck in limbo overseas. Public law solicitor Read more...
Lawyers ‘painted as villains by Home Office’ over migrant crossings (Multiple Sources) (2 September 2020)
The Home Office is facing criticism following its claim that ‘activist lawyers’ are hindering its efforts to deport migrants. This comes after Read more...
'No formal evaluation' of digital system for immigration appeals (The Law Gazette) (2 September 2020)
A digital system piloted on a small scale last year to manage immigration and asylum appeals was parachuted into the justice system without any for Read more...
Lord Chancellor concedes Legal Aid Regulations are unlawful (11 August 2020) (ILPA) (26 August 2020)
The Lord Chancellor has accepted that the making of the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 was unlawful. This w Read more...
Lord Chancellor revokes immigration fixed-fee regime (Solicitors Journal) (14 August 2020)
The Solicitors Journal has reported on our victory in the battle to overturn the government’s fixed fee regime for immigration and asylum claims.Read more...
Public law department’s work to stop charter flight removals to France garners widespread coverage (Multiple sources) (13 August 2020)
The public law team in Harrow has been featured in a number of media outlets regarding their work representing some of those who are due to be on t Read more...
Government U-turn over immigration fee reform (Law Gazette) (12 August 2020)
The Lord Chancellor is to revoke a controversial fixed fee regime for immigration and asylum appeals work after our public law team commenced judic Read more...
Asylum seeker removal flight to go ahead despite last-minute court action (The Guardian) (12 August 2020)
A charter flight to remove asylum seekers who recently arrived in the UK on small boats is due to take off despite last-minute high court actions i Read more...
Home Office spends more than £1m deporting hundreds of people at height of lockdown, figures show (The Independent) (10 August 2020)
The Independent reveals that the Home Office spent more than £1m on deporting hundreds of people during the height of lockdown, despite government Read more...
Home Office restarts deportation of asylum seekers despite coronavirus fears (The Independent) (7 August 2020)
Asylum seekers are set to be deported for the first time since coronavirus took hold in the UK, prompting concerns that the Home Office is “playing Read more...
Landmark decision on “particular social group” (Free Movement) (4 August 2020)
Free Movement have taken an in-depth look into one of our recent reported cases Read more...
Trafficking victims’ financial support slashed unlawfully during coronavirus pandemic, lawyers warn (The Independent) (4 August 2020)
Hundreds of trafficking survivors have had their financial support slashed unlawfully during the coronavirus pandemic, lawyers warn. We issue the H Read more...
British trafficking victim sues Priti Patel alleging abuse of personal data (The Guardian) (4 August 2020)
A British victim of trafficking is bringing a case against the home secretary, Priti Patel, arguing that her department unlawfully accessed persona Read more...
Home Office breaking law by leaving destitute asylum seekers homeless (The Independent) (24 July 2020)
Under asylum law, the Home Office is required to grant housing and support to asylum seekers who are waiting on their claims, or whose claims have bee Read more...
Asylum seeker to sue Home Office after falling ill with Covid-19 (The Guardian) (21 July 2020)
An asylum seeker who became infected with Covid-19 after an outbreak in his accommodation – despite assurances from the Home Office that he would n Read more...
Home Office removal window makes access to justice ‘practically impossible’ (Law Gazette and The Justice Gap) (8 July 2020)
Both The Law Gazette and The Justice Gap have reported on the challenge to the Home Office’s immigration policy that campaigners say imposes too ti Read more...
Home Office increases support for trafficking victims after lawyers argue rates are 'discriminatory' (The Independent) (2 July 2020)
The Home Office has increased support for suspected modern slavery victims after facing a legal challenge claimed the current levels were discrimin Read more...
Boxer trafficked as child wins right to stay in UK after 16 years (Multiple sources) (1 July 2020)
Reuters and other international sources, including the Nigerian Tribune, report on our client, former England boxer, Kelvin Bilal Fawaz, who was tr Read more...
Asylum seeker set to challenge “illusory” right to work rules (Free Movement) (22 June 2020)
The High Court has granted permission for a judicial review challenge to the rules on when asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK. The ch Read more...
Home Office ordered to pay for hotel for family in unsafe accommodation (The Guardian) (12 June 2020)
A high-court judge has ordered the Home Office to pay for a hotel for a vulnerable asylum seeker and her two young children, after twice placing th Read more...
‘Hammer blow for access to justice’: Trafficking victims will be left with no legal representation under ‘ill-considered’ new rules, lawyers warn (The Independent) (8 June 2020)
New rules on legal aid mean that trafficking victims and vulnerable asylum seekers will be unable to access legal representation. The Independe Read more...
The 10-year British Army Veteran from Fiji charged thousands for NHS treatment (talkRADIO) (29 May 2020)
talkRADIO spoke to our public law director Vinita Read more...
Lord Chancellor could face JR over immigration fee change (The Law Society Gazette) (29 May 2020)
The Law Society Gazette reports on our Harrow-based public law team serving a letter before action on the Lord Chancellor challenging the lawfulnes Read more...
Home Office deporting migrants who cross Channel in small boats (The Guardian) (22 May 2020)
The Guardian reports that the Home Office has launched an initiative – known as Operation Sillath - to deport migrants who cross the Channel from F Read more...
Appeal judges dismiss challenge to Home Office paying immigration detainees £1 an hour (The Justice Gap) (21 May 2020)
The Court of Appeal has dismissed our challenge to the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s policy of paying immigration detainees a fixed Read more...
Court rules bar set too high for NHS surcharge and visa fee waivers (The Guardian) (21 May 2020)
Our public law team have brought a case in relation to the Home Office’s fee waiver policy, with the Upper Tribunal declaring that the current poli Read more...
Home Office to review detention policy after admitting trafficking victim was locked up unlawfully (The Independent) (19 May 2020)
The Home Office is undertaking a review of its immigration detention policy after admitting that it held a Vietnamese trafficking victim in a remov Read more...
British army veteran faces £27,000 NHS hospital bill (The Guardian) (19 May 2020)
A Fijian-born, Commonwealth veteran who served for over a decade in the British army has been told that he must pay over £27,000 for NHS hospital b Read more...
"£5 a day is not enough": Asylum seekers surviving on ‘scandalously low’ financial support during pandemic (The Independent) (5 May 2020)
The Home Office faces a legal challenge over asylum support rates during the UK lockdown as the current conditions create a ‘support gap’ for those Read more...
Firm fights off ‘unlawful’ policy to send clients 120 miles away (The Law Gazette) (23 April 2020)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is featured in The Law Gazette’s article on how the president of the first-tier tribunals attempted to bar the firm from he Read more...
Coronavirus: 'Symptoms' at three immigration removal centres (BBC News) (25 March 2020)
The BBC reports on how three immigration removal centres in the UK are housing people with symptoms of coronavirus. Immigration lawyers are awa Read more...
Charter flight deportations: the Wild West of immigration law (Legal Action Group) (24 March 2020)
Public law solicitor Maria Thomas discusses Read more...
Home Office releases 300 from detention centres amid Covid-19 pandemic (The Guardian) (23 March 2020)
The Guardian reports on the unprecedented release following legal action arguing that the Home Office is failing to protect immigration detainees.< Read more...
Fears over coronavirus risk in prisons as first UK inmate case confirmed (The Guardian) (19 March 2020)
A report by Professor Richard Coker of the London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine warns of the risk of Covid-19 spreading at a fast rate thr Read more...
MOD must 'urgently resolve' Right to Remain for Commonwealth veterans, MPs warn, after Royal Navy becomes latest force to be pulled into immigration row (The Telegraph) (18 March 2020)
MPs are warning that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) need to urgently resolve the Right to Remain issue for Commonwealth veterans after the Royal Nav Read more...
England rugby players’ ex-soldier father stuck in Fiji because of immigration rules (Multiple sources) (11 March 2020)
Multiple sources internationally, including The Guardian and Fijivillage, are reporting on the news that a number of Commonwealth army veterans – i Read more...
Lawyer in the news: Toufique Hossain, Duncan Lewis (The Law Gazette) (9 March 2020)
Public law director Toufique Hossain was featured in The Law Society Gazette. The feature outlines his role in obtaining a court injunction last mo Read more...
Commonwealth veterans accuse UK of leaving them in immigration limbo (Multiple Sources) (9 March 2020)
The Guardian and The Times report on how a group of ex-soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking legal action against the Home Office Read more...
Want to divorce but can't afford a lawyer? Here's 12 ways to reduce, defer or pay your legal fees if you have little or no money (This is Money) (6 March 2020)
Child care director Emine Mehmet is featured in This is Money’s article on alternative ways to fund a divorce for those who cannot afford a lawyer. Read more...
Man died in 'plain sight' at detention centre (BBC News) (5 March 2020)
A jury at the inquest into the death of a Ghanaian man at an immigration removal centre near Heathrow has found that neglect was a factor, finding Read more...
The Home Office is about to deport a ‘torture victim’ who claims he endured slavery in the UK (The Canary) (28 February 2020)
The Canary reports on a detainees at Harmondsworth (WS) who is expected to be aboard a deportation charter flight to Pakistan, despite the fact tha Read more...
Jamaicans whose removal was ruled unlawful by courts still detained and apart from families two weeks on (The Independent) (27 February 2020)
Jamaicans who were granted last-minute reprieve from a deportation flight two weeks ago are still in detention and unable to reunite with their famili Read more...
Torture victims who endured slavery escape deportation by matter of hours after lawyers intervene (The Independent) (26 February 2020)
The Independent reports on how at least 16 people who were issued removal directions have been granted a last minute reprieve after it emerged they Read more...
Graduate, 26, fell in love with HSBC manager, 56, before sending disturbing messages (Mirror and multiple other sources) (26 February 2020)
The Mirror reports on how, Ms Salt, a 26-year-old graduate trainee fell in love with her older manager, before it turned into a terrible ordeal.Read more...
Home Office attempted to deport man unfit to fly shackled in an ambulance (The London Economic) (26 February 2020)
The London Economic reports on the cruelty of the Home Office’s deportation policies as an attempt was made to deport a 56-year-old father of three Read more...
Home Office to deport vulnerable asylum seekers (The Guardian) (20 February 2020)
The Guardian reports on Home Office plans to depot vulnerable asylum seekers and suspected victims of trafficking on a charter flight. Lawyers Read more...
British woman repeatedly trafficked for sex after Home Office failures (The Guardian) (18 February 2020)
A high court judge has been forced to compel the Home Office to house a vulnerable British sex trafficking victim who had been re-trafficked by cou Read more...
Appeal court gives 11th-hour reprieve to detainees due to be sent to Jamaica (Multiple Sources) (14 February 2020)
Lawyers from the Duncan Lewis public law department have been extensively featured in the media concerning the charter flight deporting over fifty Read more...
Home Office admits mobile phone outage in detention centres as deportees unable to contact lawyers (The Independent) (10 February 2020)
The Independent reports on how a mobile phone outage at removal centres has prevented people from accessing crucial legal services to challenge the Read more...
Government under pressure over Jamaica deportation flight (Multiple sources) (7 February 2020)
A number of media outlets including BBC News and The Dumbarton Reporter are reporting on how potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery ar Read more...
How modern slavery victim was left in limbo for five years by Home Office (The Independent) (7 February 2020)
The Independent reports on the case of Awais Raza, an Afghan national who fled violence, forced labour and sexual exploitation in his home country, Read more...
Wrongly deported Sudanese asylum seeker flown back to UK (The Guardian) (17 January 2020)
The Guardian reports that our client, a Sudanese asylum seeker, who was wrongly deported by the Home Office has been flown back to the UK, after hi Read more...
Swansea charity worker who fled DR Congo wins asylum fight (BBC News) (15 January 2020)
BBC News reports on our client, a charity worker who arrived in Swansea after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo, has won his asylum battle t Read more...
Thousands of asylum seekers not reporting rapes due to Home Office stigma and ‘culture of disbelief’ (The Independent) (7 January 2020)
The Independent reports on how thousands of rape victims seeking protection in the UK are facing stigma from the Home Office, which is preventing t Read more...