Author: Rachael Lenney

Rachael Lenney

Rachael Lenney is a solicitor in the immigration department at Wilson Solicitors. She has a background in immigration public law including running claims for unlawful detention and larger policy challenges to Home Office detention policies. She also has extensive experience in assisting individuals in their asylum applications and subsequent appeals and more recently in applications to revoke deportation orders. She has a predominantly legal aid caseload and is an accredited senior caseworker at Level 2.

I stopped two unlawful removals last week – how does that make me an “activist lawyer”?

1 September 2020 1 Comment

On 26 August 2020 at 7:45, a flight chartered by the Home Office took off from Stansted airport, heading for France via Dusseldorf. The passengers

Asylum, Enforcement, Human rights

I stopped two unlawful removals last week – how does that make me an “activist lawyer”?

On 26 August 2020 at 7:45, a flight chartered by the Home Office took off from Stansted airport, heading for France via Dusseldorf. The passengers were asylum seekers from countries such as Iran, Sudan and Yemen. A similar flight took off two weeks before; another is reportedly scheduled for 3...

1st September 2020

Author: Rachael Lenney

Rachael Lenney

I stopped two unlawful removals last week – how does that make me an “activist lawyer”?

I stopped two unlawful removals last week – how does that make me an “activist lawyer”?

BY Rachael Lenney