In a landmark judgment in R (HM, MA, & KH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 695 (Admin) in March of this year, the High Court held that the Home Office’s blanket and secret policy of seizing mobile phones from asylum...
Gold Jennings are delighted to be recognised for another year in the Legal 500 rankings. Legal 500 is widely recognised as the world’s largest legal referral guide. The 2022 rankings recognises that Gold Jennings “punches well above its weight in civil liberties and human rights...
The High Court has ordered by consent that the Coroner for Portsmouth, Hampshire and Southampton resume an Article 2 inquest into the death of Lucy-Anne Dyson. Lucy-Anne was killed in June 2019 by her husband Sean Dyson, who pleaded guilty to murder part way through...
Gold Jennings' Lawyer and Director Clare Jennings has been named Times Lawyer of the Week following her work on behalf of asylum seekers who successfully challenged the government’s secret blanket policy of seizing mobile phones from small boat arrivals. Last month the High Court ruled that...
Today, the High Court ruled that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and breached human rights and data protection laws by operating a secret, blanket policy of seizing, retaining and extracting data from the mobile phones of asylum seekers arriving by small boat. This claim for judicial...
Gold Jennings is delighted to announce that following a cross departmental review - which was conducted following our clients' threat of judicial review - the Government has decided to permanently extend Free School Meals and the Pupil Premium to children from NRPF families. Written statements -...
Today the High Court will hear a judicial review challenge to the Secretary of State's secret and blanket policy of seizing the mobile phones of all migrants who entered the UK by small boat between April 2020 and November 2020. Arrivals were also told, wrongly,...
Matthew Gold & Co. Public Law and Community Care Team are delighted to have won the Team of the Year award at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2021 (LALY Awards 2021). The LALY Awards are an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the...
Following a judicial review brought on behalf of two clients, the Secretary of State has agreed to extend the pupil premium for the financial year April 2021-2022, so as to mirror the criteria for the “No Recourse to Public Funds” free school meals extension. Schools should...
In a damning and much awaited judgment handed down today (NB & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC) the High Court found that the Home Secretary’s decision to use Napier Barracks to accommodate destitute asylum seeking men was unlawful and...
Tomorrow the High Court will begin a two day trial before the honourable Mr Justice Linden to determine whether the Home Secretary's use of the former military Napier Barracks as asylum support accommodation was lawful. The claim is brought by 6 Claimants in 5 joined claims,...
The Healthy Start scheme aims to reduce child poverty and health inequalities by providing vitamins, nutritional advice, and weekly vouchers to buy nutritional food or infant formula to low income families with pregnant women and children up to the age of 4. It is intended...