22 Jan We are excited to announce we have moved to a new location
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
23 Nov Family sue Leeds Hospital Trust for failing to preserve body of loved one
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...
13 Nov Supreme Court Landmark Decision: Standard of proof in suicide and unlawful killing inquest conclusions to be lowered
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...
21 Oct Jury in the Inquest of Matthew Lambert finds that multiple failures led to his death in HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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...
12 Oct Update: Challenge to the ban on care home residents visiting loved ones at home during COVID-19 pandemic
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...
02 Oct Legal challenge to the ban on care home residents visiting loved ones at home during COVID-19 pandemic
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...
01 Oct Secretary of State for Education extends early years nursery to children whose parents have “no recourse to public funds” due to immigration status
Posted 01.10.2020
| Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights, Uncategorized 0 Comments
MG&Co’s clients have successfully settled court proceedings challenging their exclusion from the early years nursery scheme on the grounds that the exclusion amounted to discrimination on the basis of race and nationality and was contrary to the scheme's statutory purpose of benefiting the poorest children...
01 Oct Matthew Gold & Co delighted to move up in the Legal 500 rankings
Posted 01.10.2020
| Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments
Matthew Gold & Co are pleased to be recognised in the Legal 500, a guide to the leading firms in the UK. The 2021 rankings showcase the firm’s wide ranging and growing expertise in human rights, actions against public authorities, inquests and judicial review. We are...
04 Sep Following threat of judicial review the government has agreed to continue the extension of Free School Meals for families with No Recourse to Public Funds whilst it considers a permanent change to the eligibility criteria
Thousands of children in the UK have already benefited from the temporary extension of FSM to families with NRPF following our earlier legal action, but the government had refused to make this change permanent. In this latest challenge we alleged that the eligibility criteria for...
21 Aug Legal challenge to the eligibility criteria for the Healthy Start Scheme which excludes thousands of vulnerable and deprived children
The Healthy Start Scheme aims to reduce child poverty and health inequalities by providing vitamins, nutritional advice and weekly vouchers for nutritional food or infant formula to low income families with pregnant women and children up to the age of 4. It is intended to...