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01 September 2015
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Zofia Duszynska—Duncan Lewis Solicitors

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Immigration specialist joins Harrow on the Hill office

Duncan Lewis Solicitors has announced the arrival of immigration solicitor Zofia Duszynska to the firm’s Harrow on the Hill immigration team.

Zofia joins Duncan Lewis with a specialism in immigration asylum work and a particular expertise in cases involving gender-based persecution, asylum-seeking children, human trafficking and exclusion from the Refugee Convention. She possesses wide experience in representing adult and child victims of human trafficking for domestic servitude, sexual and labour exploitation in both their applications to be recognised as victims of trafficking and in international protection claims. Zofia was a founder member of ATLeP (Anti-Trafficking Legal Project) an information network of lawyers and specialist practitioners assisting victims of trafficking.

Zofia says: "I am pleased to be joining Duncan Lewis, a market leader in civil legal aid across multiple areas of law and a firm with the experience and breadth among their legal team to pursue legal challenges to the highest level."

 

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