Ms Rohena Wallace > Duncan Lewis Solicitors > Harrow, England > Lawyer Profile

Duncan Lewis Solicitors
Suite 3d
79 College Road
Harrow
HA1 1BD
England

Work Department

Public Law and Immigration

Position

Rohena is a director of public law and immigration, specialising in immigration, asylum, human rights and public law. She successfully deals with matters including; the 1951 Refugee Convention, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), detention, bail, nationality law, European Economic Area (EEA) law as well as prison law and terrorism challenges involving the unlawful deprivation of citizenship. She is particularly proficient at representing vulnerable clients with mental health problems, unaccompanied asylum seeking children, victims of torture and those being held under immigration powers.

Rohena has extensive experience of challenging decisions by judicial review; removals from the UK; pursuing unlawful detention claims; fresh claim refusals and other related public law challenges. She has undertaken fact-finding visits to France and Cyprus in order to obtain evidence for use in claims for judicial review before the High Court.

Career

Rohena joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in September 2011 and qualified as a solicitor in May 2013. She was promoted to a partner-level director in 2017.

Memberships

Rohena is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and is an accredited Level 3 (Advanced) Senior Caseworker under the Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.

Education

Rohena completed her Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the Bristol Institute of Legal Practice in 2008.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Employment > Immigration

Duncan Lewis Solicitors fields a ‘uniformly proactive, highly committed‘ immigration team, operating from offices across Harrow, Luton, London and Milton Keynes. The team has expertise across claimant-side judicial review, with a particular focus on challenging human rights breaches in deportation cases, as well as operating a significant practice in asylum, protection cases, modern slavery matters, and unlawful detention claims. The practice has a robust leadership team encompassing Toufique Hossain, a prominent immigration litigator, along with Vilash Gami, Rohena Wallace, and Gemma Lynch, who has extensive experience in representing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, Bahar Ata, who has a niche practice in immigration and human rights related judicial review claimant matters, and Pardeep Somel, who boasts nearly two decades of experience advising asylum seekers, torture victims, trafficking and detention challenges.

London > Employment > Immigration: human rights

Known for ‘taking ground-breaking cases and fighting them all with great ability and energy‘, Duncan Lewis Solicitors has unique expertise in immigration judicial review claims involving human rights breaches, as well as a reputable practice in asylum, protection, deportation and modern slavery. Toufique Hossain, ‘a very capable leader and builder of teams’, is a prominent figure in human rights and immigration law, and Ahmed Aydeed advises on all aspects of immigration, including human rights, asylum and international protection. Rohena Wallace and Gemma Lynch have notable experience representing vulnerable clients such as unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children, whilst James Packer has a specialist practice in complex immigration and is ‘deeply committed to clients with cases at all levels from tribunal to Supreme Court.’ Vilash Gami and Pardeep Somel are both well-established in complex asylum claims, and the ‘calm and competentBahar Ata has a specialised practice in immigration and human rights-related judicial review claims.