Sophie Lucas of the Garden Court Public Law and Immigration Law Teams is on the legal team acting for the claimants.
Sophie Lucas is instructed in a challenge to the Home Office’s decision to preclude nationals of Sudan, Afghanistan, Cameroon and Myanmar from applying for entry clearance to the UK as students.
The Claimants are three Sudanese women who have each secured places for postgraduate studies in international public health and women’s health at the University of Oxford and University College London, but are unable to apply for student visas following the introduction of the so-called ‘visa brake.’
Sophie Lucas is instructed by Toufique Hossain and Manini Menon of Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She is led by Charlotte Kilroy KC, with Grant Kynaston of Blackstone Chambers.
Sophie Lucas
Sophie is a public law practitioner with considerable experience acting for claimants in complex human rights challenges against public bodies. Sophie has over three years post-qualification experience as a public law solicitor representing clients at every level of Tribunal and Court, including before the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Sophie has worked on several landmark public law cases, including as a lead solicitor in the judicial review challenge to the government’s ‘Rwanda policy’. Sophie was named ‘Times Lawyer of the Week’ following the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the Rwanda policy was unlawful.
Get in touch with Sophie’s clerks at publiclawclerks@gclaw.co.uk
