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A leading public law team fearless in holding the government to account.
New Episode of the No Walls Podcast is out! In this episode, Toufique speaks with Mira Hammad, a formidable criminal barrister at Garden Court North. Mira speaks about erosion of protest rights & sheds light on the recent proscription of Palestine Action.
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Europe's Frontier: Refugee Rights on Lesvos.
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36. Europe’s Frontier: Refugee Rights on Lesvos
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NEW EPISODE! For
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, The No Walls Podcast hears from Prashant Bhushan, one of India's most highly regarded Supreme Court advocates who works on landmark cases, including on behalf of Rohingya refugees in India.
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35. Refugee Rights in India: A Fight for Recognition – Prashant Bushan
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35. Refugee Rights in India: A Fight for Recognition – Prashant Bushan
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Syrian refugees challenge Home Office after being left in limbo
Syrian asylum and settlement decisions were paused after the fall of the Assad regime
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Jamie Bell examines the obstacles faced by Afghan women
Jamie Bell sheds light on the UK’s treatment of Afghan women asylum seekers in Free Movement
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/InthePress/Jamie_Bell_featured_in_Free_Movement_on_Afghan_Women%E2%80%99s_Struggle_for_Asylum_in_the_UK_(13_June_2025).html
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Afghan human rights defender granted asylum after Home Office U-turn
Woman who risked life working for western government-backed projects can now stay on UK
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Duncan Lewis Public Law Team Successfully Challenges Unlawful
Duncan Lewis Public Law Team Successfully Challenges Unlawful Home Office Delay in Asylum Case
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/Duncan_Lewis_Public_Law_Team_Successfully_Challenges_Unlawful_Home_Office_Delay_in_Asylum_Case_(9_June_2025).html
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New No Walls Podcast Episode: Trump’s Second Term So Far, out Now!
New No Walls Podcast Episode: Trump’s Second Term So Far, out Now!
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/New_No_Walls_Podcast_Episode_Trump%E2%80%99s_Second_Term_So_Far,_out_Now!_(14_May_2025).html
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Our Nina Kamp and Albert Cammack acting.
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UK agrees to fly home wrongly deported Windrush generation man from Jamaica
Exclusive: Winston Knight’s deportation order revoked by Home Office after a decade living on streets in Kingston
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The No Walls Podcast is back! Was a real pleasure to speak to the Karen Tumlin, Founder and Director of the Justice Action Centre, and a brilliant attorney in the US focusing on immigrants’ rights. Also - Sophie Lucas joins the NWP team as a new host!!
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33. Trump's Second Term So Far
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Working on this with
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Plans to stop small boat refugees getting British citizenship hit by legal challenge
Exclusive: New guidance, potentially affecting 70,000 people, could have a ‘devastating impact on rape survivors’ and penalise trafficking survivors, charities claim
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Duncan Lewis Secures Quashing of Home Office Negative Reasonable
Duncan Lewis Secures Quashing of Home Office Negative Reasonable Grounds Decision – Fordham J Gives Useful Guidance on Various Aspects of the Reasonable Grounds
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Duncan Lewis granted permission to apply for Judicial Review on behalf
Duncan Lewis granted permission to apply for Judicial Review on behalf of victim of human trafficking and modern slavery
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🚨 Government faces High Ct Challenge over Brook House Inquiry Response 🚨 Stephanie Harrison KC & Emma Fitzsimons of Garden Ct on the legal team w/ Alex Goodman KC (Landmark Chambers) & Grace Capel (
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High Court Rules Kidnap for Ransom Constitutes Exploitation in Traffic
High Court Rules Kidnap for Ransom Constitutes Exploitation in Trafficking Claims
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/publiclaw_news/High_Court_Rules_Kidnap_for_Ransom_Constitutes_Exploitation_in_Trafficking_Claims_(10_March_2025).html
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Free Movement
7 months ago
From last week: The Home Office is leaving thousands of Afghans in limbo in the UK | Jamie Bell
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The Home Office is leaving thousands of Afghans in limbo in the UK - Free Movement
As anticipated in my article published in September 2024, the Home Office immigration statistics published on 27 February 2025 demonstrated a huge fall in the
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Legal Aid Challenge and Neurodiversity Project Highly Commended
Legal Aid Challenge and Neurodiversity Project Highly Commended at Modern Law Awards
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/Legal_Aid_Challenge_and_Neurodiversity_Project_Highly_Commended_at_Modern_Law_Awards_(7_March_2025).html
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Garden Court Chambers
7 months ago
🚨 High Ct grants permission to challenge decision to move father away from his children 🚨 Alex Schymyck of the Garden Ct
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Team is instructed by Hannah Baynes, Lily Weatherby & Hannah Jandu of Duncan Lewis
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Hearings in
#CranstonInquiry
will continue for 4 weeks, the inquiry will investigate the UK’s worst small boat disaster. Instructed by
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Zoe McCallum & Rosalind Comyn, represent the bereaved families and one survivor
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Cranston Inquiry to hear from survivor of 2021 Channel Tragedy
Duncan Lewis Represents Families of Victims in Landmark Investigation
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Duncan Lewis to Challenge ‘Unlawful’ Good Character British
Duncan Lewis to Challenge ‘Unlawful’ Good Character British Citizenship Requirements
https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/Duncan_Lewis_to_Challenge_%E2%80%98Unlawful%E2%80%99_Good_Character_British_Citizenship_Requirements_(21_February_2025).html
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Channel migrant dinghy tragedy ‘entirely predictable’, inquiry hears
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Channel migrant dinghy tragedy ‘entirely predictable’, inquiry hears
The Cranston inquiry has begun hearing evidence into the biggest ever loss of life in a Channel migrant crossing An inquiry into the biggest ever loss of life in a migrant dinghy in the Channel has heard that it was ‘entirely predictable’ that a…
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Garden Court Chambers
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📣 WATCH LIVE - CRANSTON INQUIRY📣 Our Joint Head of Chambers, Sonali Naik KC, provides opening statements on behalf of bereaved families and one of the two survivors, instructed by Maria Thomas of Duncan Lewis (
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Big thanks to
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and team at
@dlpubliclaw.bsky.social
for launching legal challenge against the government's incredibly cruel plan to prevent those with refugee status becoming British citizens if they came here on a 'dangerous journey'.
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Planned change in British citizenship rules faces first legal challenge
Young Afghan refugee brings case after move to prevent those who arrived on ‘dangerous journey’ from citizenship
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Planned change in British citizenship rules faces first legal challenge
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Planned change in British citizenship rules faces first legal challenge
Young Afghan refugee brings case after move to prevent those who arrived on ‘dangerous journey’ from citizenship Plans to prevent refugees who arrive in the UK on a small boat, lorry or via other “irregular” means from becoming a British citizen are…
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"The inquiry will be vital to ensure that lessons are learned and any repetition of the crisis at Manston can be avoided"
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Home Office upgrades inquiry into Kent immigration centre after legal challenge
Asylum seekers formerly held at Manston will get funded legal representation at inquiry after challenging Home Office decision
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60 asylum seekers, including children, were detained illegally bu the UK in Diego Garcia for years, finds court:
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We're relieved and grateful that our clients have arrived in the UK, after enduring three years of inhuman conditions. Our Simon Robinson quoted in this report.
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Dozens of Tamils arrive in UK after three years stranded on Diego Garcia
Lawyers and campaigners hail removal of 47 people from remote Indian Ocean island as ‘a big day for justice’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/03/dozens-tamils-arrive-uk-after-three-years-stranded-diego-garcia
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NEWS: The government has now announced "historic increase in legal aid to support most vulnerable". See letter sent to us about it. More to follow!
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Our Lewis Kett features in the latest report on Manston. "An independent inquiry will need the powers and resources to properly understand how this happened to learn lessons and prevent an incident like this occurring again."
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Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre
Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detained
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/23/revealed-home-office-completely-lost-grip-at-notorious-manston-asylum-centre?CMP=share_btn_url
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