About
Provided by Duncan Lewis Solicitors
Duncan Lewis Solicitors continuously handles high profile strategic public law litigation. Our influence, not just in case law, but the amount of people we affect through legal challenges is unparalleled. Our expertise across interlocking practices enables us to deal with all public law matters, including:
- A large judicial review claimant practice, representing vulnerable claimants in human rights, crime, prison law, court of protection, mental capacity and social welfare; with a niche specialism in human rights, immigration, inquests, civil liberties claimant judicial review matters, and costs litigation.
- Our London-based education law team represents schools, governing bodies, parents and students.
- We have an expanded international presence, developing litigation challenges to UK government practices in Libya and Eritrea, taking on and attaining successful outcomes.
Our public law team is well known for:
- Representing claimants in the lead challenge to the SSHD’s Rwanda policy to remove asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda;
- Leading the first group litigation challenge in respect of wrongful detention at the Manston facility in Kent; and
- Assisting individuals facing discrimination and violations of their family life as a result of the Windrush Scheme.
