Frances Lipman
Address: Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors, 30 Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol, BS1 4JHTel: 01173323598
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Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
Public law Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn
Experience, Background and Services:
Frances is an experienced Public Law solicitor, specialising in the field of human trafficking and modern slavery.
She has worked for nearly four years at Deighton Pierce Glynn in Bristol working on behalf of victims of modern slavery. Prior to that she worked for five years as a Community Care Solicitor at the Disability Law Service and trained at leading Claimant firm, Leigh Day.
She now works mainly with a number of clients who have been victims of all kinds of exploitation and trafficking, including sex work, domestic servitude, forced marriage, forced criminality and who despite their ordeals, have received negative Reasonable or Conclusive Grounds decisions from the Home Office. Over the past four years, She has successfully overturned at least 20 of these decisions, through challenging poor decision making on the part of the Competent Authority, by way of Judicial Review. Although most of these claims settled once proceedings were issued on one occasion, a challenge to a Reasonable Grounds decision the matter proceeded to trial and we successfully overturned the decision. R(FX) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 1908 (Admin) http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?&srguid=i0ad82d080000015848ce2351759690fc&docguid=IB6735C00DA3A11E5A1A2C775C8691A53&hitguid=IB6735C00DA3A11E5A1A2C775C8691A53&rank=1&spos=1&epos=1&td=1&crumb-action=append&context=43&resolvein=true
She has also taken on a number of challenges to the refusal of the Home Office to grant recognised victims of trafficking Discretionary Leave to Remain, and one of these also ended up at trial. She won this case on behalf of the client, who was a recognised victim of domestic servitude but had had her application for leave refused. See R(FM)v SSHD [2015] EWHC 844http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?src=doc&linktype=ref&context=8&crumb-action=replace&docguid=I95F75800E2C411E480919C40DBC87536
Frances has also represented several clients to bring claims for unlawful detention who were wrongly detained and has won significant sums of money for those clients. She has also advised clients on their eligibility for housing and support post Conclusive Grounds decision
She is known for her experience and sensitivity with the needs of deeply traumatised clients, using sympathetic and considerate interview techniques and has a good bank of contact, including experienced barristers and experts in the world of human trafficking who can provide expert assessments and support, such as safehouse support and counselling, all of which can assist greatly in getting a positive outcome.
She is an experienced practitioner in related areas of migrant support, through getting No Recourse to Public Funds lifted on behalf of clients, obtaining Local Authority Children Act support under s17 , obtaining community care services for migrants who are vulnerable and have care needs, and assisting clients to get s95 NASS support.
- Civil law
- Compensation
- Judicial Reviews
- Public law
- Community Care & Welfare
- Child law
- Age dispute
- International humanitarian law
- Claims against public authorities
- Employment & Discrimination law
- Human rights
Description:
Public law Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn
Experience, Background and Services:
Frances is an experienced Public Law solicitor, specialising in the field of human trafficking and modern slavery.
She has worked for nearly four years at Deighton Pierce Glynn in Bristol working on behalf of victims of modern slavery. Prior to that she worked for five years as a Community Care Solicitor at the Disability Law Service and trained at leading Claimant firm, Leigh Day.
She now works mainly with a number of clients who have been victims of all kinds of exploitation and trafficking, including sex work, domestic servitude, forced marriage, forced criminality and who despite their ordeals, have received negative Reasonable or Conclusive Grounds decisions from the Home Office. Over the past four years, She has successfully overturned at least 20 of these decisions, through challenging poor decision making on the part of the Competent Authority, by way of Judicial Review. Although most of these claims settled once proceedings were issued on one occasion, a challenge to a Reasonable Grounds decision the matter proceeded to trial and we successfully overturned the decision. R(FX) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 1908 (Admin) http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?&srguid=i0ad82d080000015848ce2351759690fc&docguid=IB6735C00DA3A11E5A1A2C775C8691A53&hitguid=IB6735C00DA3A11E5A1A2C775C8691A53&rank=1&spos=1&epos=1&td=1&crumb-action=append&context=43&resolvein=true
She has also taken on a number of challenges to the refusal of the Home Office to grant recognised victims of trafficking Discretionary Leave to Remain, and one of these also ended up at trial. She won this case on behalf of the client, who was a recognised victim of domestic servitude but had had her application for leave refused. See R(FM)v SSHD [2015] EWHC 844http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?src=doc&linktype=ref&context=8&crumb-action=replace&docguid=I95F75800E2C411E480919C40DBC87536
Frances has also represented several clients to bring claims for unlawful detention who were wrongly detained and has won significant sums of money for those clients. She has also advised clients on their eligibility for housing and support post Conclusive Grounds decision
She is known for her experience and sensitivity with the needs of deeply traumatised clients, using sympathetic and considerate interview techniques and has a good bank of contact, including experienced barristers and experts in the world of human trafficking who can provide expert assessments and support, such as safehouse support and counselling, all of which can assist greatly in getting a positive outcome.
She is an experienced practitioner in related areas of migrant support, through getting No Recourse to Public Funds lifted on behalf of clients, obtaining Local Authority Children Act support under s17 , obtaining community care services for migrants who are vulnerable and have care needs, and assisting clients to get s95 NASS support.
