Legal 500 “Leading Law Firm” Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the appointment of Lucy Philps- Tate and Sophie Fretten as Public Law and Family & Childcare Directors respectively. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they were awarded the LawWorks Best Contribution by a Firm with a London Head Office 2015 award at the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards ceremony. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Tashvinder Reel and Abbid Majeed as Directors in the firm’s Family & Childcare Department. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top Tier” law firm Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the recent internal appointment of Abigail Fogg to her new role as Director of the firm’s Prison Law department. Read more...
Legal 500 Leading Law Firm Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce that as from November 2015 they will be offering Legal Aid work for eligible Clinical Negligence claims, and the arrival of with new Clinical Negligence Solicitor Emma Lutrario. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce that Director James Packer has been recognised by Chambers UK 2016 as a Leading Individual for his Immigration Human Rights work in London for the third consecutive year. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce that Director Dianne Cowie has been recognised by Chambers UK 2016 as a Leading Up and Coming Individual for her Housing Law work in London. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce that Director Krina Parmar has been recognised by Chambers UK 2016 as a Leading Up and Coming Individual for her Family and Childcare work in Birmingham and the surrounding areas. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce that Director Toufique Hossain has been recognised by Chambers UK 2016 as a Leading Individual for his Immigration Human Rights work in London for the third consecutive year.
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Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce that Director James Packer has been recognised by Chambers UK 2016 as a Leading Individual for his Immigration Human Rights work in London for the third consecutive year. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce excellent results in the Chambers & Partners 2016 legal guide with the Firm receiving a departmental ranking as well as four Solicitors receiving Recommended Lawyer status. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that their Cardiff based practice has been shortlisted for the LawWorks Cymru Pro Bono Awards. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they have been shortlisted for an award in the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 2015 under the category “Best contribution by a law firm”. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top-tier” firm Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the opening of its Action Against Police department headed by Senior Supervisor and specialist Solicitor Lisa Verro. Read more...
Legal 500”Top-Tier” law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the recent arrival of Immigration Director David Saldanha to the firm’s Harrow on the Hill Immigration department. Read more...
Legal 500 Leading Family & Childcare Law Firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they have been awarded the 5th Annual 2015 Jordans Publishing Family Law Firm of the Year 2015 award. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top Tier” firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the external appointments of Directors Hildegard Rauf, Rachel Caswell and Catherine Ashton to the firm’s Personal Injury/ Employment Litigation, Mental Health and Family departments respectively. Read more...
Legal 500 2015 “Top Tier” National Law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the internal appointment of James De Vere Moss as a Director of the firm’s Housing Department.
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Legal 500 "Top-Tier” law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the recent arrival of Immigration Solicitor Zofia Duszynska to the firm’s Harrow on the Hill Immigration team. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors obtain unprecedented generic injunction from the Court of Appeal in relation to removals to Afghanistan. A significant portion of those due to removed on charter flight on 25 August 2015 have been granted a stay on their removal.
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Legal 500 “Top Tier Firm” Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the accreditation of several members of the firm’s Immigration and Public Law departments to the Law Society Level 2 Immigration & Asylum and Supervisory accreditation panels. Read more...
Legal 500 "Top-Tier" law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the recent arrival of Childcare Director Richard Gray to the firm^s Birmingham branch. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that Director of Public Law Adam Tear has been nominated for the Law Society Solicitor Advocate of the Year Excellence Award for the third consecutive year running. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the appointment of Idnan Deen and Shazia Saliheen as Directors of the firm’s Family & Childcare Department. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they have been shortlisted for the prestigious Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion accolade in the Law Society Excellence Awards 2015. Read more...
Legal 500 “top -tier” firm Duncan Lewis Family Solicitors have been shortlisted for the Family Law Firm of the Year award in the 2015 edition of the prestigious Jordan’s Family Law Awards. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top Tier” firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors offer a free weekly pro bono legal surgery from their Dalston East London every Tuesday evening from 5.30- 7.30. Read more...
Head of Duncan Lewis Islamic Law department Aina Khan featured in The Times on the 3rd July 2015 discussing young Muslims and the rise of Sharia marriages and the issue of polygamy sometimes found in these cases. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Childcare Law Solicitor Ummar farooq Ahmed to the Law Society Advanced Family Law Panel. Read more...
Aina Khan, the Head of the Duncan Lewis Islamic Law Department featured in The Daily Express on the 4th July 2015 discussing Islamic marriages in the UK and the fears of polygamy in these cases. Read more...
Aina Khan, the Head of the Duncan Lewis Islamic Law Department featured in The Telegraph on the 3rd July 2015 discussing the rise of Sharia marriages in the UK and the polygamy fears prompted by them. Read more...
Legal 500 “top tier” Duncan Lewis co-ordinated staff across its UK offices to fall into silence for 1 minute at 12 noon on Friday 3rd July, to honour the victims of the recent tunisia massacre. Read more...
Today the Government announced in a statement to Parliament that the Detained Fast System is to be suspended owing to the risk of unfairness to vulnerable applicants. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top Tier” firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors have successfully represented a Claimant who had been detained for over two years in prison under immigration powers. Read more...
Duncan Lewis represented a Claimant who was refused Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) for an Article 8 appeal. In her decision, the Judge forced the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) to reconsider their decisions to refuse ECF, and the LAA has since granted ECF to cover our client’s ongoing appeal proceedings. Read more...
Aina Khan featured in The Upcoming on the 22nd June 2015 discussing her campaign for marital justice, the Register our Marriage roadshow. Read more...
Legal 500 “Top Tier Firm” Duncan Lewis Solicitors raised over £1,100 at the London Legal Walk 2015 for the London Legal Support Trust law centres and pro bono agencies. Read more...
Judgment has been reported in the case of AB and Others Iran [2015] UKUT 0257 (IAC) where Duncan Lewis represented the claimant who is an Iranian citizen seeking asylum in the UK due to risks to his person if he was removed back to Iran. Read more...
Aina Khan’s “Register Our Marriage” (ROM) Press Conference will be taking place at the Barristers’ Chambers at 36 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH at 3.30pm on 10th June 2015. Read more...
Legal 500 leading law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce the opening of its new West London office in Shepherds Bush. Read more...
Legal 500 leading law firm Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the opening of their new office in Croydon, Surrey. Read more...
Legal 500 leading law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent opening of its new Central London office on Fleet Street/Holborn to deliver services in High Net Worth Divorce matters, Employment Litigation and Business Immigration matters. Read more...
Aina Khan’s “Register Our Marriage Roadshow” will be taking place after the Daughters of Eve conference at the Mercure Hotel from 2.30 to 4.30pm on Sunday 3rd May 2015 at Mercure Bradford hotel, Bradford Road, West Yorkshire, Bingley BD16 1TU. This is a free event for both men and women, interfaith and non-political. Read more...
Duncan Lewis will be walking the London Legal Walk 2015 with the Lord Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers on the 18th May 2015 to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust which funds Law Centres and pro bono agencies in and around London and the South East. Read more...
Aina Khan’s “Register Our Marriage Roadshow” will be taking place at the Barristers Chambers at 36 Bedford Row in London on Wednesday 10th June 2015. Read more...
Criminal defence legal specialists Duncan Lewis, SJ Law and MB Law have announced their intention to form a consortium to bid in partnership for nationwide Duty Provider, Legal Aid Crime Contracts. Read more...
Legal 500 2015 “Top-Tier” law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the recent arrival of Dianne Cowie as a Director in the firm’s East Croydon Housing Team. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to welcome the recent arrival of Civil Litigation specialist and Law Society Mental Health Panel Member Nerys Thomas as a Director in the firm’s Cardiff Litigation Team. Read more...
The case of SB & ABD (A MINOR) sought to challenge the legality of the Secretary of State^s historical and ongoing failure to grant the Applicants further Discretionary Leave to remain in the United Kingdom, after the first Applicant had previously been granted three years of Discretionary Leave in this country. Read more...
On the 28th March 2015, the Al-Mahdi Institute held a ^Register Our Marriage^ Roadshow in association with Aina Khan from ^Register Our Marriage^ Project to discuss the importance of Registering Marriages in the UK. It is estimated that around 80% of young British Muslims are in unregistered marriages and that this is growing rapidly. Read more...
Judicial Reviews and Injunctions are a remedy used by Solicitors in order to solve specific issues faced by those subject to Immigration controls. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Practice Manager Jason Bruce featured on BBC Panorama’s Legal Aid reform documentary “DIY Justice” on the 30th March 2015. Read more...
Following the release of new evidence regarding the deterioration of conditions in Afghanistan, Duncan Lewis Solicitors challenged the removal of a number of vulnerable asylum seekers to Afghanistan by charter flight scheduled for 22:30 on Tuesday 10 March 2015.
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Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to welcome the arrival of Prison Law Specialists Dele Johnson, Suki Thumber, Elizabeth Gwinnell and Abigail Fogg to the company’s prison law and criminal defence and appeals practice. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that Employment Consultant Solicitor Anthony Thompson has joined the firm’s Croydon based Employment Law department. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Public Law Director Toufique Hossain spoke to Channel 4 as part of their “Serious self-harm soars at Harmondsworth since 2012” report regarding the temporary stay granted to 20 Afghan Asylum seekers who were due to be deported by chartered flight at 10.30 PM on the 10th March 2015. Read more...
The Claimant is subject to a continuing duty to make a full and frank disclosure when making a claim for Judicial Review. This duty is broad and the Court will put faith in the Claimant to inform the Court of all material facts known to them. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are challenging the continuing policy of the Home Secretary to carry out removals to Afghanistan and are attempting to obtain interim relief to stop the charter flight scheduled for Tuesday 10 March 2015. Read more...
A team of three Duncan Lewis Solicitors went to Hungary on a fact-finding mission and spoke to various NGOs, social workers, lawyers, detainees and attended the biggest detention centre in the country in Debrecen. Read more...
Leading Legal 500 law firm, Duncan Lewis, is today announcing the departure of Ofonimeh Umoh Abudu, Solicitor and Director of Immigration. After nearly 13 years with the company she will be leaving Duncan Lewis to take up a litigation role with the civil service. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce the appointment of Childcare law specialist Tariq Ahmad to the Law Society Childrens Panel.
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Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they will be taking part in a Mastermind charity fundraising competition in Harrow to raise money for the mental health charity Mind on the 28th February. Read more...
Legal 500 leading law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce that it will soon be opening a new office in Croydon, Surrey with an opening date currently scheduled to be the end of February 2015. Duncan Lewis Directors, Childcare specialist Kathy Walker and Immigration expert Trevor Hatton are also set to relocate to Croydon. Read more...
National law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Misbah Ali as a Director of Family & Childcare. Read more...
Leading Legal 500 national law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of solicitor Kathy Walker as a Director of Family & Childcare for the company’s Croydon office. Read more...
Leading Legal 500 national law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Frances Clare as a Director of Family & Childcare. Read more...
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent arrival of Litigation Solicitor, Katarina Santos-Brazell. Katarina specialises in commercial litigation, professional negligence, personal injury and clinical negligence claimant matters and predominantly practices from the company’s London offices. Read more...
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent Director appointment of Commercial litigation lawyer Sobashni De Silva, and the arrivals of Clinical Negligence / Personal Injury specialist, Katarina Santos-Brazell and Employment Solicitor Carol van den End to the company’s civil litigation practice.< Read more...
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Gabor Nagy as a Director of Immigration. Read more...
Leading Legal 500 national law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Seher Toguz as Director of Immigration. Read more...
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Heather Iqbal as a Director of Housing. Read more...
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent relocation of Childcare & housing specialist Eleanor Stokes from the company’s Shepherd’s Bush branch to its recently opened Barnet office in North London. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce the recent appointment of both Julie Leslie and Commercial Litigation Specialist Sobashni De Silva as a Directors of Litigation. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is pleased to announce the recent appointment of both Sobashni De Silva and Personal Injury Specialist Julie Leslie as a Directors of Litigation.
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Duncan Lewis are pleased to announce the recent appointments of seven London based law society children panel members and childcare specialists to its Board of Directors. Read more...
Leading Legal 500 national law firm Duncan Lewis has recently announced the recent and forthcoming appointment of 13 new Directors across the company’s London and Cardiff based Litigation, Family & Childcare and Immigration legal departments. Read more...