Judgment has now been handed down after an 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the social security safety net is unlawful. On 7 May 2020 the High Court indicated that...
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...
Today's high court case, supported by The Unity Project and brought by our client – the child of a single mother - had sought an urgent suspension of the 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) policy, to allow those who are now unable to work...
On Friday 3 April 2020 the High Court will decide whether to suspend the Home Office’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy so that people affected by it, who work under zero-hour contracts - have a social security safety net if they have to stop...
On 27 November 2019, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal that the detention of asylum seekers between 1 January 2014 and 15 March 2017 pending removal to another EU state under the Dublin III Regulation was unlawful. This is...
On 10-12 December 2019 the High Court is hearing a judicial review challenging substantial and systematic delays by the Home office in deciding asylum applications made by unaccompanied children. Statistics show that applications by unaccompanied children have routinely taken well in excess of a year to...
The Court of Appeal has emphatically rejected the Government’s application for permission to appeal against a judgment of Mrs Justice May of 14 June 2019 on the investigation into human rights abuses at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. The judge had ordered that the investigation...
One of the successes from our ground breaking PAP scheme is reported in the local newspapers in Bristol. This case, a rare good news story about asylum support, was supported by Jacob Rees-Mogg, their local MP. However, it was the receipt of the pre-action letter...