I am a Solicitor in the Public Law department at Duncan Lewis, specialising in the intersection of immigration/asylum, public and human rights law. I lead a small team of caseworkers under the direction of Toufique Hossain.
Since joining the team in March 2019, I have developed a practice supporting vulnerable clients, including those in detention/prison, suffering from complex physical and/or mental health issues, and victims of torture, sexual violence and trafficking with their asylum claims, NRM referrals, fresh claims, and appeals at the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. In doing this, I have developed a reputation for being caring and dedicated to vulnerable clients while maintaining high-quality representation.
Within public law, I do judicial reviews both for individual clients and strategic litigation on issues engaging immigration and/or human rights law. I enjoy and have significant experience in challenging imminent removals and unlawful detention. My strategic work includes: leading a High Court challenge of the use of GPS ankle tags on asylum seekers and foreign national offenders released on immigration bail (ADL & Ors v SSHD [2024]), developing a challenge to the Home Office's use of Article 13(2) Dublin III regulations to remove asylum seekers who had arrived to the UK by boat to France, acting as junior in a challenge of the Home Office's failure to provide effective access to justice to women detained at Derwentside IRC and assisting with a successful challenge of trafficking maternity payments.
Finally, I engage in litigation for damages for false imprisonment and other civil claims.
In my role, I have spoken to multiple media sources including The Guardian and The Independent about our vital legal work and its role in giving the most vulnerable access to justice. I regularly work with and alongside charities as a means of making law more accessible and inclusive.
I am also a co-founder & co-director of the annual London Migration Film Festival, the leading project of Migration Collective CIC, which has been running since 2016. The aim of Migration Collective is to challenge the narrow rhetoric on migration that often sees migration, and people on the move, framed in reductive and dehumanising binaries.
Before joining Duncan Lewis, I was a manager of refugee services and international family tracing at the British Red Cross in Kent & Sussex, where I worked primarily with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, vulnerable migrants, and people in immigration detention.