In The Press

Duncan Lewis featured in The Guardian on the 26th August 2015 regarding the firm’s case involving the deportation of Afghan asylum seekers via charter flight to Afghanistan. Duncan Lewis brought the legal challenge against the planned flight.

A private plane chartered by the Home Office to remove failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan has taken off after days of legal battles to prevent some of those on the plane being forcibly removed failed.

Toufique Hossain, a solicitor at Duncan Lewis who has been leading the case to try to prevent asylum seekers being put on the plane said: “We remain gravely concerned for those who are being forcibly removed. Who are these individuals? Where are they from in Afghanistan and did they have an opportunity to obtain legal advice in relation to these matters. The home secretary also ought to explain why she chose to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in removing what is probably a handful of Afghans on a charter flight.”