In a case taken by DPG solicitors, the High Court has ordered the Home Office to disclose sensitive commercial data concerning whether its private contractors have met their contractual targets for housing destitute failed asylum seekers. The disclosure application was part of a wider systemic challenge...
An 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – has today won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the welfare safety net is unlawful. The judges in the case heard that the boy, whose identity is protected by an...
On Wednesday 6 May, an 8-year-old British boy – supported by his mother - will take the UK Home Office to court over its policy of denying families like his access to the welfare safety net. The ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy, as it is...
Next week the High Court will decide whether to suspend the Home Office’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy so that people affected by it have a social security safety net if they have to stop working. As previously reported, the High Court will finally consider...
We have written to the Children’s Commissioner and asked her to investigate the Home Office’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment – following the recent report showing its shocking impact on children. In 2012 the then Home...
The Home Office has agreed to review its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment - and pay our clients compensation following successful legal action. In 2012 the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, decided that people granted limited...
Our client, a Windrush migrant was scheduled to be removed on the Charter flight to Jamaica today, 6 February 2019. Our client’s removal has been stayed but 35 (originally 51) others have been removed. For all we know some of those removed may have been...
Our client (“BB”) has today been granted permission by the High Court for his judicial review of the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce a public inquiry in to abuse of detainees at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. BB is a former detainee of Brook House...
The Home Office (Secretary of State for the Home Department) has for at least one and half years now been operating a policy to remove rough sleeping EU nationals on the basis that rough sleeping is an abuse of rights under the EU Treaty. Connie Sozi,...
The Secretary of State for Health has settled, on the day of the trial, a judicial review claim challenging the Government’s failure to consult on the removal of exemption from NHS charges from persons receiving Home Office asylum support (section 4(1) support). It has initiated...