Johanna Line died in 2020 shortly after twice reporting serious domestic abuse to Gloucestershire Constabulary. Despite the police and other agencies assessing the risk to Jo’s life as “high”, and a suspect being arrested, her reports resulted in no prosecution and there was no multi-agency...
The Metropolitan Police have agreed to pay our client damages as part of the settlement of a claim brought under the Human Rights Act. The claim arose from the murder of our client’s sister, Chenise Gregory, in 2021. Chenise was killed by her abusive partner,...
Matthew Gold of Gold Jennings has been instructed by the family of Harshita Brella whose body was found in the boot of a car in east London on the 13th November 2024. Harshita had been in a short arranged marriage with Pankaj Lamba before moving...
Before HM Senior Coroner Graeme Irvine, East London Coroner’s Court, 20 – 30 April 2026 Gold Jennings represented the family of Yolanda Saldana Feliz in Article 2 inquest proceedings touching on her death. Yolanda, aged 53 and originally from the Dominican Republic, was murdered by her daughter’s...
Gold Jennings represented relatives of Lajos Mandrik in inquest proceedings touching on his death at West London Coroner’s Court, 23 March – 1 April 2026. Lajos, aged 37, died in September 2023 whilst detained under the Mental Health Act. At the time of his death, he...
Director and Head of Education & Children’s Rights, Dan Rosenberg, represented two families who had both moved in the spring, but whose children had been out of school and not receiving education as Christmas approached. Following judicial review threats, all of the children were swiftly...
Gold Jennings represent the family of Johanna (‘Jo’) Line in inquest proceedings touching on her death. Jo took her own life in June 2020 at the age of 28 very shortly after twice reporting serious domestic abuse to Gloucestershire Constabulary. Despite the police and other agencies...
Staffordshire Police have agreed to pay damages to our client, Stanley Iredale, after he was detained and assaulted by officers on Easter Sunday in 2022. Stanley was driving home with his brother when their vehicle was pulled over by two police officers. Unprovoked, one of the...
Judicial review proceedings issued challenging Kent County Council’s (“KCC”) care charging policy, which the Claimant had alleged had resulted in individuals overpaying for their social care, was settled just days before trial after KCC, who despite maintaining their policy was lawful, agreed to make significant...
Along with other members of the Community Care Lawyers Group, Olivia Halse, one of our Directors in the Public Law department, has co-authored a helpful article for this month’s Legal Action Magazine. The article provides useful information and tips on community care law for immigration practitioners...
Gold Jennings has been ranked by Chambers & Partners in its UK Guide 2026 as one of the country’s leading firms in Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Inquests, and Police Law. Nine of the firm’s lawyers have been individually ranked across...
Gold Jennings represented the family of a patient who was permitted to leave an acute psychiatric ward at Springfield Hospital, managed by South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust, when they should not have been. The Coroner concluded that a series of failures...