Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Public Law

Krisha Prathepan is a solicitor in the Public Law and Immigration departments at Duncan Lewis’s Harrow office. She has a wealth of experience in carrying out appeals before the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal of the Immigration Asylum Chamber, as well as various other challenges against the Secretary of State for the Home Department such as: unlawful detention, removals to European countries under the Dublin Convention, removals on asylum and human rights grounds and challenges to policy and law relating to vulnerable people.

Passionate and committed to representing the most vulnerable in society, Krisha works with victims of torture, trafficking, disputed minors, pregnant women in detention and those with other physical/mental difficulties. Additionally, she has extensive experience in cases which have been decided in the Administrative Court and Supreme Court.

Notably, she has had conduct of the following lead cases:

• Challenges under article 28 involving unlawful detention under the Dublin Regulations;
• Challenges to returns to Hungary under the Dublin Regulations;
• Challenges to returns to Malta under the Dublin Regulations;
• Challenges on returns to Austria under the Dublin Regulations;
• Challenges involving section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016, also known as the 'Dubs Amendment.'

Her career began in 1998 and she was admitted as a solicitor in 2000. Krisha joined Duncan Lewis in 2012.

Krisha has a Level 3 (Advanced) Immigration accreditation under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Scheme (IAAS).

She achieved her LLM from the University College London before completing her LPC.