Dhira Wickramanayake

Solicitor/Senior Partner

Dhira is a Solicitor and a Level 2 Accredited senior caseworker and supervisor with the Law Society of England and Wales. She is the senior partner at Wick & Co. Solicitors. She is a Solicitor with over 34 years of experience. She has extensive experience in Asylum, Immigration and Nationality cases.

Dhira has extensive experience of working as an Immigration Solicitor undertaking legal aid and private work in asylum, human rights, immigration and nationality law.

Her experience in immigration casework covers from initial applications to the Home Office, appeals and applications to the First and Upper Tribunals, Court of Appeal and High Court work. She has particular experience in asylum and non asylum immigration cases such as asylum applications including unaccompanied minors and trafficking matters, extension of leave applications, indefinite leave to remain applications, entry clearance and applications in most categories. Her knowledge in the law and procedural matters are current and up to date.

Sunetha Hettiaratchi

Solicitor/Partner

Sunetha is a solicitor and partner of the firm. She has over 30 years of experience in private work, management and administration. Her prior experience includes over 20 years as a lawyer working abroad in senior positions. She remains in a managerial and administrative positon in the firm

Varsha Patel

Solicitor

Varsha is a Solicitor and Level 2 Accredited senior caseworker and supervisor with the Law Society of England and Wales. She is a Solicitor with over 15 years of experience. Varsha Patel has extensive experience as an Immigration Solicitor in Law firms undertaking legal aid and private work in asylum, human rights, immigration and nationality law.

She has an outstanding amount of experience in immigration casework including initial applications to the Home Office, applications for asylum and immigration appeals. Her expertise include Upper Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Judicial Review work. Her specialities include dealing with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers and trafficking matters. Her casework includes indefinite leave to remain applications, extension of stay applications, family reunion applications, entry clearance applications and leave to remain application in most categories.

Sujata Joshi

Senior Caseworker

Sujata is a Level 2 Immigration and Asylum accredited supervisor and senior caseworker with over 30 years of experience in immigration law. She has vast experience of asylum and immigration casework starting from initial applications to appeals before the First and Upper Tribunals and Court of Appeal. She is particularly experienced in asylum and human rights claims, unaccompanied minor asylum claims and trafficking matters.

Sujata has previously worked for Haringey CAB and Refugee Migrant Justice as an immigrations caseworker focused mainly on asylum claims and immigration applications for example, marriage applications and entry clearance applications and related appeal work. Immigration work include applications for indefinite leave to remain, limited leave to remain, family reunion, domestic violence and EEA related matters.

Sujata also has experience of representing clients in the Detention Fast Track (DFT) as well as coordinating and providing advice in the various detention surgeries. She was involved in DFT litigation including getting clients out of fast track process and stopping removal direction, as well as grant of asylum at pre-decision stage.