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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A letter-before-claim has been sent today to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and relevant local authorities alleging that the ban on care home residents visiting their loved ones unlawfully deprives residents of their liberty, in breach of the state's human rights...