Pardeep Somel

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

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Pardeep Somel is a Director in the Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors in England, supervising a team of solicitors, trainees and caseworkers specialising in asylum work. She is an experienced immigration litigator who represents vulnerable clients — including victims of torture, human trafficking, gender-based persecution and minors — in appeals, detention challenges and judicial review proceedings up to the Court of Appeal.

Practice areas

ImmigrationAsylumDetentionPublic LawHuman RightsImmigration Litigation

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England

Duncan Lewis Solicitors · 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.

England

Expertise

Victims of torture and traffickingGender-based persecutionDetention and removal challengesRepresentation of detainees and immigration bail challengesVulnerable clients (minors, domestic abuse survivors)Judicial review of immigration decisionsSettlement and entry clearance applications

Admissions

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