In The Press

Ahmed Aydeed, Director of Public Law in Duncan Lewis’ Birmingham office, has featured in The Law Society Gazette following his win as Junior Lawyer of the Year at the Law Society Excellence Awards 2017. His work defending the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers has seen him at the “forefront in the battle against the unlawful detention of migrants in the UK, the unlawful processing of asylum claims through the Detained Fast Track system and, in particular, the criminalisation of trafficking victims, torture victims and unaccompanied child refugees.” Ahmed criticises the government’s recent disregard of the Dubs amendment (section 67) of the Immigration Act 2016, which was intended to allow entry of 3000 unaccompanied refugee children into the UK, compared to last year’s total of just 350. Discussing the cruel treatment of homeless EU nationals, Ahmed comments: “[The Home Office] is detaining rough sleepers who are EU citizens and deporting them. It has got hold of information from homelessness charities to help it identify the nationality of rough sleepers, which isn’t at all how the charities’ data was designed to be used. It then deports the people it has detained on the grounds that they are abusing their treaty rights.”