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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MG&Co has been instructed in a challenge to the Free School Meals eligibility criteria which means children in very low income families whose parents cannot claim welfare benefits because of their immigration status are not entitled to FSM. Our judicial review pre-action letter argues that the...