Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Public Law

Toufique Hossain is a director of public law and immigration at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. He works predominantly under legal aid in order to represent those most in need. His practise is dominated by judicial review, leading strategic litigation where he represents individual claimants and NGOs who seek to challenge Executive decisions, policies and practices. 

He has extensive experience in the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, litigating across a range of areas and regularly conducting high-profile challenges to unlawful policies and practices, including unlawful detention and unlawful removals from the UK.

Some of his most notabe cases include:

SM v Lord Chancellor [2021] EWHC 418 (CRA, CJO, CAS) v Lord Chancellor (challenge to LAA Regulations) Detention Action v SSHD (access to justice – phone access) FB & Anor v SSHD (Removal Window Policy) Hussein v SSHD & G4S Morita & Ors v SSHD Rehman & Ors v SSHD & SSJ TH and others [2016] EWCA Civ 815 Wasif v SSHD [2016] EWCA Civ 82  JS (Sudan) [2013] EWCA Civ 1378  

Toufique continues to have conduct of several lead complex cases. He has had conduct in unlawful detention cases involving mental health issues; Rule 35 and evidence in relation torture; lead cases challenging removals to France, Cyprus and Malta; removals to DRC; challenges to detention involving long-term detention of Chinese nationals and Afghan charter flight cases.

In addition to challenging injustice through litigation, Toufique aims to advocate human rights by speaking out in the media. His appearances in The Guardian, Sky News, Russia Today, BBC and Channel 4 brings attention to the crucial role of legal aid, in holding the executive to account and in providing justice for those most in need. 

Toufique qualified as a solicitor in 2004, he joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in 2011 and was made a partner-level director in 2013. 

In October 2017, Toufique was named The Times 'Lawyer of the Week' for his work leading Duncan Lewis' challenge to the Home Office detention policy in relation to torture survivors. He has been recognised on multiple occasions and has been shortlisted for the Civil Lawyer Award at the 2019 Asian Legal Awards and Human Rights Solicitor of the Year at the 2019 Law Society Excellence Awards. In 2017 he  was shortlisted for Lawyer Monthly’s ‘Public Law Solicitor of the Year’, The Legal Aid Practitioners Group’s (LALY) ‘Immigration and Asylum Lawyer of the Year’, and the Law Society’s ‘Human Rights Lawyer of the Year’. His team was shortlisted for Legal Aid Team of the Year at the Solicitors Journal Awards 2017 and at the LALY Awards in 2020 and 2021.

Bengali.

Toufique is accredited as a Supervisor and Level 3 Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme. There are only a small number of immigration practitioners throughout England & Wales that hold this quality mark. He is also a member of Amnesty International, ILPA, and is on the Board of Trustees – Article 1/Waging Peace.

Toufique received his LPC from the College of Law, London and his LLB Law from University College London (UCL).