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Mr Raja Rajeswaran Uruthiravinayagan

020 3114 1107 rajau@duncanlewis.com View profile

Work Department

Public Law

Position

Raja Rajeswaran Uruthiravinayagan is a solicitor in the public law department at Duncan Lewis’ Harrow office.

He has extensive experience in the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, litigating across a broad range of areas and regularly conducting high profile class-action challenges to unlawful policies and practices affecting vulnerable people. This includes appealing decisions under the Immigration European Economic Area (EEA) Regulations, matters involving Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), unlawful removals to European countries under the Dublin Convention as well as unlawful detentions and returns to countries of origin.

Being committed to social and international justice, he represents both private and publicly funded clients. Many of his clients are extremely vulnerable asylum seekers who are victims of torture, rape and/or trafficking. He is dedicated to protect their right to liberty and to be granted refuge from persecution.

Though choosing to work in Public Law, Raja also has experience in criminal law, regulatory law and immigration law including asylum and human rights matters.

Career

Having qualified as a Barrister in 2008, before qualifying as a solicitor in 2011, Raja joined Duncan Lewis in 2012.

Languages

Raja speaks fluent Tamil.

Memberships

Raja has Level 2 and Supervisor accreditation under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme (IAAS).

Education

He received both his LLB and LLM from London School of Economics.