Bryony is a solicitor in the Bristol office, having qualified in February 2024. She works on public law challenges and civil damages claims, primarily on behalf of survivors of trafficking and asylum seekers.
Bryony played a leading role in taking two cases concerning the provision of trafficking support to trial; both concluded favourably for the clients, with the Home Office agreeing to reassess the clients’ need for trafficking support and agreeing to withdraw previous decisions in which this support was refused, details here and here. These cases followed a previous challenge on which Bryony worked, which concluded with the Home Office confirming that recognised survivors of trafficking could be re-entered into the trafficking support system, should their needs require it. The Home Office’s Modern Slavery Statutory Guidance has since been updated to reflect this.
In late 2024, Bryony worked with DPG partner Adam Hundt on a challenge to the Home Office’s system for deciding Change of Conditions applications, in which the judge found that the Home Office’s approach breached Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Bryony was part of a wider DPG team challenging the Home Office’s so-called Rwanda policy on behalf of a number of clients. Bryony worked closely with 6 clients who were threatened with removal to Rwanda in May/June 2022, and whose cases only settled as late as summer 2024. During this time, the clients (5 of whom were survivors of trafficking and/or torture) experienced a number of other injustices, and Bryony worked on a number of satellite judicial reviews for these clients, including in relation to their identification as survivors of trafficking, a range of support challenges, and damages claims in respect of unlawful detention. Some of these cases are ongoing, and Bryony has been the main point of contact for these 6 clients for over 2.5 years, who have all required a high level of client care due to various vulnerabilities.
As a paralegal and then trainee solicitor at DPG, Bryony supported various partners in the Bristol office, and has worked on a wide range of public law and civil damages claims.
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