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Our Solicitors

We provide frontline organisations with training & supervision to enable them to prepare formal pre-action letters to challenge decisions made by or on behalf of Government.

Managing Partner

Polly Glynn 

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Polly is one of the founding partners of Deighton Pierce Glynn. 

She is a recognised expert in public law, civil liberties and human rights. She was recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 directory for her work in Housing, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and is recommended in Chambers Legal Directory for her work in public law and civil liberties and human rights. 


She was highly commended in the Law Society Excellence Award

She set up the PAP project out of a desire to see law used outside lawyers offices.

Partner 

Daniel Carey

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Daniel Carey is a partner who joined Deighton Pierce Glynn in 2013.

Daniel has substantial experience in public law challenges to local and national government.

 

His successful judicial reviews have included national consultations on changes to legal aid funding, healthcare access for migrants; national legislation governing retention of the public’s telecommunications information;unlawful immigration detention, failures to provide asylum support housing; failures to recognise victims of human trafficking and delays in asylum decision making for unaccompanied children, victims of human trafficking and others.

Solicitor

Helen Baron

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Helen is a solicitor who joined Deighton Pierce Glynn in September 2021.

Prior to her legal career, Helen worked in the aid sector, assisting humanitarian responses to refugee flows & displaced people.

Helen represents clients in judicial review claims, focusing on migrant support challenges. She routinely represents asylum seekers and care leavers seeking adequate accommodation and support from the Home Office or Local Authorities

Helen is an accredited Level 2 senior caseworker and supervisor under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.

Partner & Senior Solicitor 

Sasha Rozansky 

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Sasha Rozansky is a partner & senior solicitors at Deighton Pierce Glynn.

 

She specialises in all aspects of migrant support, including home office support, healthcare, housing and community care.

 

Sasha has been advising migrants on their rights to support for over 15 years.  She has been writing the Migrant Support update for Legal Action since 2010.

Solicitor

Unkha Banda

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Unkha joined Deighton Pierce Glynn in October 2021. She has over 5 years of experience working in Immigration Law working at various organisations.

Her previous experience was a varied legal aid caseload, which included asylum claims, bail applications, challenging detention and deportation decisions, EEA applications, stateless applications and trafficking claims. 

Unkha is an accredited Level 2 Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme. She is also a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (‘ILPA’), and a Co-convenor of ILPA’s Racial Justice and Equality Working group. 

Solicitor

Megan Smith

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Megan is a solicitor who joined Deighton Pierce Glynn in 2023.  She has over seven years’ experience of acting in complex judicial reviews on behalf of individuals and charities. 

 

Megan specialises in challenges regarding asylum support and migrant’s rights.  She routinely represents asylum seekers – in particular survivors of torture and trafficking - in challenges to their Home Office accommodation. 

Solicitor

Tabatha Pinto

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Tabby is a solicitor who joined DPG in February 2023. Tabby works in our public law team, acting for often highly vulnerable individuals and assisting them to challenge unlawful state decisions which infringe on their rights. She has a particular focus on asylum seekers’ and children’s rights, including unaccompanied migrant children.

 

Tabby is also experienced in damages claims, in particular complex group claims and unlawful detention claims.

Solicitor

Bryony Goodesmith

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Bryony is a solicitor who trained at DPG.

 

She represents clients in judicial review claims, focusing on migrant support and trafficking support challenges.  

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