Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Public Law and Immigration

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.

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.

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.

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