Laura Dubinsky KC

Administrative & Public Law Immigration International Human Rights Law Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities Anti-Trafficking Children's Rights Group

Laura works extensively in public law at all levels, with a particular focus on cases with a refugee, immigration, ECHR or EU law dimension. Her practice includes civil liberties litigation, such as challenges to administrative detention through habeas corpus, judicial review and civil actions for damages. She is also instructed in ECHR and EU law cases in the supranational courts.

Laura frequently acts for NGOs and both legally aided and high net worth individuals.

Recent examples of significant cases in which Laura has acted:

R (Humnyntskyi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 1912 (Admin): leading counsel for three successful claimants in challenge to the Home Office’s policy and practice concerning accommodation for destitute immigrants under paragraph 9, Schedule 10, Immigration Act 2016. CI (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 2027, [2020] Imm. A.R. 503 ,  [2020] I.N.L.R. 191: leading counsel for the successful appellant in significant case concerning Article 8 ECHR and the circumstances in which a long-resident immigrant may be subject to deportation. R (SM) v Lord Chancellor [2021] EWHC 418 (Admin), [2021] 1 WLR 3815: leading counsel for the Intervener, Bail for Immigration Detainees, in important challenge to lack of legal aid provision for immigration detainees held in prisons.  The lack of a duty advice scheme or equivalent was accepted to breach Article 14 read with Articles 2,3,5 and 8 ECHR. Secretary of State for the Home Department v Viscu [2019] EWCA Civ 1052, [2019] 1 WLR 5376, [2020] 1 All E.R. 988: leading counsel for the Intervener, the AIRE Centre, in appeal concerning EU law protections from expulsion for long resident immigrants and the approach to be taken to a period of custody in a young offenders’ institution. R (Majera) v  Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 46 ,  [2021] 3 WLR 1075: junior counsel for the Intervener, Bail for Immigration Detainees in leading case concerning the duty of the executive to comply with a court order unless and until set aside. R (DN (Rwanda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 9, [2020] AC 698: junior counsel for Intervener Bail for Immigration Detainees in leading case concerning false imprisonment and sequential decision-making. R (JL) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] 1 WLR 4623: leading counsel for the successful appellant in challenge to employment prohibition (EU law grounds). R (Help Refugees) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2098 leading counsel in the Divisional Court and junior counsel in the Court of Appeal for the partially successful claimant NGO. Challenge to the fairness of procedures applied to transfer decisions for unaccompanied minors under the ‘Dubs Amendment’ and to the local authority consultation. R (Lauzikas) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] 1 WLR 6625  leading counsel for the partially successful /appellant in important case concerning EU law protections applicable to administrative detention and the approach to causation and damages. B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] AC 418 junior counsel for the Intervener Bail for Immigration Detainees in landmark appeal before Supreme Court concerning power to impose bail conditions.

Oxford University (BA 1993); Columbia University (MA 1995).