Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Public Law and Immigration

Rohena is a Director in the Public Law & Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, specialising in immigration, asylum, human rights, and public law. She supervises a team of solicitors, trainees and caseworkers who are all committed to delivering a high standard of representation to clients facing complex legal issues which fundamentally affect their lives.

Her expertise covers all areas of immigration and asylum law, as well as prison law and terrorism challenges involving the unlawful deprivation of citizenship. She has a particular interest in representing vulnerable clients with mental health conditions, unaccompanied asylum seeking children, victims of torture and those being held under immigration powers.

She has extensive experience of challenging decisions through judicial review, removals from the UK, pursing unlawful detention claims, fresh asylum claims, fresh claim refusals, and other related public law challenges.

Rohena is an accredited Supervisor and Level 3 (Advanced) Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme which means she has a high level of specialist knowledge and experience in the area of immigration law and enables her to advise and assist both private paying and publicly funded (legal aid) clients.

Rohena joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in September 2011 and qualified as a solicitor in May 2013. She was promoted to a partner-level director in 2017.

Rohena is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and is an accredited Level 3 (Advanced) Senior Caseworker under the Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.

Rohena completed her Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the Bristol Institute of Legal Practice in 2008.