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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10 Dec High Court challenge to the Secretary of State for Health’s exclusion of thousands of deprived children from the Healthy Start Scheme that provides support for nutritious food and vitamins

Posted 10.12.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, 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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23 Nov Family sue Leeds Hospital Trust for failing to preserve body of loved one

Posted 23.11.2020 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities 0 Comments

Matthew Gold and Company, solicitors represent the family of Emily Whelan deceased in a civil claim for damages against Leeds NHS Hospital Trust in a trial to commence in Leeds on the 24th November 2020.  The Family claim that Emily’s body was badly decomposed and...

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13 Nov Supreme Court Landmark Decision: Standard of proof in suicide and unlawful killing inquest conclusions to be lowered

Posted 13.11.2020 | Uncategorized 0 Comments

In a historic judgement which split the Supreme Court judges, a majority of 3 to 2 found the standard of proof for all conclusions, including suicide and unlawful killing should be on the civil standard of proof.  Coroners Courts in England and Wales can now...

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21 Oct Jury in the Inquest of Matthew Lambert finds that multiple failures led to his death in HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Posted 21.10.2020 | Inquests 0 Comments

Matthew Gold & Co Solicitors was instructed to represent Andrea Farnell the former partner of Matthew John Lambert at his inquest following his tragic suicide in the early morning of 13 November 2018 at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. The inquest held at the West London Coroner’s...

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12 Oct Update: Challenge to the ban on care home residents visiting loved ones at home during COVID-19 pandemic

Posted 12.10.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review 0 Comments

Today the BBC news channel featured our client's legal challenge against the ban on care home residents visiting loved ones at their homes during covid19. Watch our client and firm Director Clare Jennings speaking about the case here at 34 minutes in.  And for more information about...

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