In The Press

The Guardian reports on Home Office plans to depot vulnerable asylum seekers and suspected victims of trafficking on a charter flight. Lawyers within the public law department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors have obtained last minute high court injunctions preventing some suspected victims of trafficking from flying on today (20th February 2020). The flight will be going to Switzerland, Germany and Austria under Dublin convention legislation and EU rules that require asylum seekers to claim asylum in the first safe EU country they arrive in. Public law director Toufique Hossain raises the point that injunctions often have to be filed in the high court at the eleventh hour by legal aid lawyers as a result of previous lawyers letting people in detention centres down. Toufique comments that: “Access to justice is even more critical in these circumstances.”