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Ms Vilash Gami

Work Department
Immigration
Position
Vilash Gami is solicitor in the immigration department based at Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Harrow office and specialises in immigration and asylum.
Representing clients in all types of matters from initial applications through to appeals in the Tribunal and the Higher Courts, her cases include asylum applications, including those on DAC, deportation, family reunions, marriage applications as well as EEA and nationality matters. Additionally, she also undertakes general immigration matters such as entry clearance. Vilash has represented vulnerable clients such as minors, victims of torture, victims of domestic violence and those with mental health issues.
During her career, Vilash has built up extensive experience in the Court of Appeal procedures and representing clients at the High Court in judicial review matters. She has completed judicial reviews relating to unlawful detentions, false imprisonment, challenges to refusals of Article 8 ECHR family and private life applications and to decisions to deny access to public funds. She also regularly challenges unlawful delays in processing applications, third country removals and urgent interim relief applications.
Career
She joined Duncan Lewis in 2008.
Memberships
Vilash has Level 2 Supervisor and Senior Caseworker accreditation under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme (IAAS).
Education
Having earned her Law with Criminology degree from Middlesex University, Vilash qualified as a solicitor from the University of Law in 2007.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Employment > Immigration
Duncan Lewis Solicitors fields a ‘uniformly proactive, highly committed‘ immigration team, operating from offices across Harrow, Luton, London and Milton Keynes. The team has expertise across claimant-side judicial review, with a particular focus on challenging human rights breaches in deportation cases, as well as operating a significant practice in asylum, protection cases, modern slavery matters, and unlawful detention claims. The practice has a robust leadership team encompassing Toufique Hossain, a prominent immigration litigator, along with Vilash Gami, Rohena Wallace, and Gemma Lynch, who has extensive experience in representing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, Bahar Ata, who has a niche practice in immigration and human rights related judicial review claimant matters, and Pardeep Somel, who boasts nearly two decades of experience advising asylum seekers, torture victims, trafficking and detention challenges.
London > Employment > Immigration: human rights
Known for ‘taking ground-breaking cases and fighting them all with great ability and energy‘, Duncan Lewis Solicitors has unique expertise in immigration judicial review claims involving human rights breaches, as well as a reputable practice in asylum, protection, deportation and modern slavery. Toufique Hossain, ‘a very capable leader and builder of teams’, is a prominent figure in human rights and immigration law, and Ahmed Aydeed advises on all aspects of immigration, including human rights, asylum and international protection. Rohena Wallace and Gemma Lynch have notable experience representing vulnerable clients such as unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children, whilst James Packer has a specialist practice in complex immigration and is ‘deeply committed to clients with cases at all levels from tribunal to Supreme Court.’ Vilash Gami and Pardeep Somel are both well-established in complex asylum claims, and the ‘calm and competent‘ Bahar Ata has a specialised practice in immigration and human rights-related judicial review claims.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Immigration
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate