Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Public Law and Immigration

Lewis Roch-Kett is Solicitor in the Public Law Immigration Department at Duncan Lewis. He has extensive experience in a wide range of Judicial Review challenges, with a particular speciality in challenges to both the lawfulness and conditions of immigration detention.

His most recent work has included:

• Acting as the Lead Solicitor for the Duncan Lewis cohort of clients for the Brook House Public Inquiry. The Public Inquiry investigated mistreatment and abuse of detained persons at Brook House in 2017, following undercover reporting by BBC Panorama.
• The lead challenge to the Home Office’s policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Lewis has been ranked as an ‘Associate to Watch’ in Chambers and Partners UK in the ‘Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation, UK wide’ category. He won the Legal Aid Newcomer Award at the 2018 LALY Awards and has twice been a finalist at the Law Society Excellence Awards (2017 - Junior Lawyer of the Year, Highly Commended, and 2019 – Human Rights Law, Shortlisted). In April 2016, he became the first trainee solicitor to be awarded the Times Lawyer of the Week.

Lewis is an accredited Level 2 Supervisor under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme, leading his own small team within the firm’s Public Law department.

Lewis joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in 2012 and was admitted as a solicitor in July 2016.

Lewis is accredited as a Level 2 Supervisor under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.

Lewis achieved a distinction in his LPC and obtained his LLB from Durham University.