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Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant
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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 our legal challenges is unparalleled. Our expertise across interlocking practices enables us to deal with all public law matters.
Our Public Law team fields 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, civil liberties claimant judicial review matters and costs litigation.
The team has a broad practice representing both privately and publicly funded (legal aid) clients in matters involving immigration; asylum and human rights and deportation matters, with a niche practice in immigration and civil liberties claimant judicial review matters. They have significant experience in challenging delays in Home Office decision making, unlawful immigration detention cases with high net claims for damages, and challenging immigration removal decisions, particularly third country removal cases.
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Duncan Lewis Solicitors represented Tamil asylum seekers detained on Diego Garcia in multiple claims including a judicial review challenging the UK Government’s failure to relocate detainees despite accepting their need for protection.
Strengths
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Duncan Lewis are prepared to take on urgent work. The breadth of work also ensures they have expertise to assist with a wide variety of judicial review challenges.
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant respondentUKThe team is really prepared and give me straight and easy to understand answers.
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant respondentUKThe team is hard-working, dedicated and thorough.
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant respondentUKDuncan Lewis works incredibly hard for their clients, even in some of the most difficult and challenging circumstances, and will always go the extra mile.
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Notable Practitioners
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Band 2 Toufique Hossain
Toufique Hossain is a director of public law at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. He regularly handles public law litigation related to trafficking, detention and deportation. Toufique has a great eye for finding public law issues.
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant respondentUKToufique has enormous integrity and provides so much support.
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant respondentUKToufique is one of the big beasts of claimant public law. He has a panoramic perspective, strategic instincts and has a real eye for winning cases.
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Ranked Individuals at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (1)
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Toufique Hossain
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant
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Members
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James Packer
Head of Department
Lewis Kett
Bahar Ata
Head of Department
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