Wilson Solicitors’ Administrative and Public Law work recognised in the Times Best Law Firms 2025

Wilsons is so thrilled to have our Administrative and Public Law work recognised in the Times Best Law Firms 2025! A huge thank you as always to our amazing clients, our NGO partners and the other professionals we work with, as well as our peers. Massive congratulations to all of our incredible team!

The ranking notes the following highlights from recent work within our Public Law and Human Rights team, and our inter-departmental work alongside our Immigration team:

‍The firm’s recent work has included representing the campaigning organisation Migrants Organise and 14 individual clients in challenging the Home Office’s proposed use of the Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum seekers in Portland, Dorset. This action led to several changes in Home Office policy.

Wilsons has also been involved in a judicial review of the failure by the home secretary at the time to establish a public inquiry or Article 3 ECHR-compliant investigation into detention conditions at the Manston immigration facility in Kent. The firm is representing more than 30 clients in potential damages claims arising from their time as detainees at Manston.

‍Other high-profile activity has included bringing challenges on behalf of clients who were facing deportation under the previous Conservative government’s plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda. The firm represented two of the claimants who successfully challenged this policy in the Supreme Court.

These highlights sit alongside many less high-profile but no less important wins for our clients, of which we are equally proud. We look forward to another year of many more such successes.

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