08 Jun Secretary of State for Education extends 2021-2022 Pupil Premium Grant

Posted 08.06.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights, Uncategorized 0 Comments

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...

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03 Jun High Court rules Home Secretary acted unlawfully in accommodating asylum seekers in inadequate Napier barracks

Posted 03.06.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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02 Jun Department of Health and Social Care to extend Healthy Start Scheme following successful High Court claim

Posted 02.06.2021 | Uncategorized 0 Comments

Following a claim for judicial review the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has confirmed that many more babies and toddlers from the poorest families in the UK will be entitled support under the Healthy Start Scheme. The Healthy Start Scheme aims to reduce...

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25 May Critical inquest uncovers Winston Augustine’s state of severe pain and starvation in segregation at Wormwood Scrubs

Posted 25.05.2021 | Uncategorized 0 Comments

Before Dr Anton van Dellen, HM Assistant Coroner West London Coroner’s Court 10 – 21 May 2021   Winston Augustine, 43, died on Thursday 30 August 2018 at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. An inquest has concluded that multiple failures by the prison service to meet Winston’s basic needs directly...

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13 Apr Napier Barracks: Two Day Trial Begins in High Court on 14 April

Posted 13.04.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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,...

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02 Mar High Court grants permission for legal challenge to the exclusion of disadvantaged migrant children from the Healthy Start scheme

Posted 02.03.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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19 Feb High Court challenge to Home Secretary’s unlawful imposition of 23-hour daily curfew on those in asylum support accommodation

Posted 19.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

The Claimant is an asylum seeker in hotel accommodation provided by the Home Secretary. He has been told that he must remain in his hotel for 23 hours per day. That rule applies to all of the asylum seekers accommodated in the Claimant's hotel, and...

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16 Feb High Court grants permission for Napier barracks legal challenge following Home Secretary’s concession it is arguable that conditions breach human rights

Posted 16.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

At today’s High Court hearing the Home Secretary conceded that it is arguable that conditions in Napier barracks may breach human rights and are inadequate and permission to proceed to trial was granted. The claim is brought by 6 Claimants who were accommodated by the Home...

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05 Feb High Court orders the Secretary of State to move another asylum seeker from Napier barracks within 24 hours

Posted 05.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

The High Court again this week ordered that another asylum seeker housed at Napier barracks must be moved to alternative accommodation within 24 hours. This comes after the court made a similar ruling at an oral hearing on Tuesday 2 February. The case will now...

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29 Jan Landmark Judgment – Caramella Brennan, Leon Clarke, Tammy Clarke, Rita Clarke, Kingsley Leader and Guiseppina Saia V Leeds Teaching NHS Hospitals Trust

Posted 29.01.2021 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Human Rights 0 Comments

Today Leeds County Court decided in the case of Brennan and Others v Leeds Teaching NHS Hospitals Trust that the Trust breached the human rights of the family of Emily Whelan by failing to preserve her body.   For the first time, a Court has determined...

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22 Jan We are excited to announce we have moved to a new location

Posted 22.01.2021 | Uncategorized 0 Comments

As of 15th January, Matthew Gold & Company Limited are excited to announce we have moved into a new office located at 11 Jerusalem Passage, London, EC1V 4JP  ...

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11 Dec Matthew Gold’s Chez Cotton, Garden Court’s Michael Etienne and researcher Dylan Morely discuss an HRA secondary victim claim for parents of one of the Panorama ‘undercover hospital abuse’ victims in Dec2020/Jan 2020 Legal Action Magazine

Posted 11.12.2020 | Human Rights 0 Comments

Chez Cotton of Matthew Gold & Co, Michael Etienne of Garden Court and Dylan Morley, a freelance researcher/paralegal, discuss bringing a claim for damages for the parents of a patient receiving care at a mental health hospital, where abuse by staff was exposed in a...

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