Mike Poulter

Solicitor

Mike is a member of the public law team, where he primarily focuses on assisting individuals in immigration detention.

He has particular expertise in conducting judicial reviews on behalf of vulnerable clients against the Home Office, including claims challenging the lawfulness of immigration detention, refusals of applications for British citizenship, removal decisions, certification decisions denying rights of appeal, and refusals of ‘fresh claims’ for asylum.

Several of his judicial review and complex deportation appeal cases have been reported, including:

  • R (DM (Tanzania)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 2351 (Admin)

  • R (AC (Algeria)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 36

  • R (Kaday) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 3101

  • Zulfiqar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 492

  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v AA (Poland) [2024] EWCA Civ 18

  • R (Branco-Bonfim) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 1421

  • R (Sheehan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 1611 (Admin)

Mike also acts in cases relating to complex entitlements to British citizenship, drawing upon five years of volunteer expertise with the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC). He also has expertise in complex deportation matters, asylum claims, and appeals, and is accredited by the Law Society as a Level 3 Supervising Senior Caseworker.

Mike graduated with a first-class honours degree in English and American Studies from Keele University before obtaining his GDL at Oxford Brookes University and a Master of Laws (LPC-LLM) from the University of Law, London. He initially joined Turpin Miller in 2014 before leaving to complete his Legal Practice Course, after which he returned to the firm and qualified as a solicitor in 2018.