Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Immigration

Pardeep Somel is a Director in the Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She supervises a team of solicitors, trainees and caseworkers that specialise in asylum work, representing victims of torture, human trafficking, gender-based persecution, and detention and removal challenges.

Pardeep has extensive litigation experiences in all courts, from the First-tier Tribunal through to the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal. She specialises in working with vulnerable individuals including minors, victims of domestic abuse, torture and trafficking with complex cases. Her broad range of experience includes settlement and entry clearance applications.

Pardeep regularly represents detainees held in prison or immigration detention centres as well as those who have been released on immigration bail, by challenging both the Secretary of State’s powers to detain and the removal decision.

Pardeep litigates in a wide range of immigration, asylum and detention related judicial reviews including: the failure to provide suitable accommodation within a reasonable time period; the failure to apply detention rules correctly; unlawful decisions to detain to those accepted as victims of torture or trafficking; third country removals; false imprisonment; and delays in processing asylum applications.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2018 - present)

Level 2 Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration & Asylum Accreditation Scheme