14 Nov Gold Jennings recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners again

Posted 14.11.2023 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

We are delighted that once again we have been recognised by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories. In the prestigious Chambers and Partners 2024 guide, the firm as a whole has risen from Band 3 to Band 2 for Administrative and Public Law: Traditional Claimant,...

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19 Jul Welcoming Louise Eardley to Gold Jennings

Posted 19.07.2023 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

We are delighted to welcome experienced solicitor Louise Eardley back to Gold Jennings. Having originally trained with us, Louise took up a position at Sinclairs Law upon qualification in August 2019. Louise has an excellent reputation in education law, community care, public and administrative law and human...

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03 Mar Olivia Halse “Rising Star” at the 2023 Modern Law Awards

Posted 03.03.2023 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Our congratulations go to Olivia Halse who won the Rising Star Award at the 2023 Modern Law Awards last night. We are delighted that Olivia's outstanding contribution to the firm and the sector has been recognised in this way. Our firm was shortlisted for Boutique firm of...

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15 Nov Migrant Phone Seizures Judicial Review: Briefing Note

Posted 15.11.2022 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Human Rights, Information Law, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

In its two judgments of 25 March 2022 and 14 October 2022 (published 11 November 2022) in the case of R (HM, MA & KH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the High Court has comprehensively ruled that the Home Office’s secret and...

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17 Oct High Court rules that a failure of governance allowed the Home Secretary’s unlawful phone seizure policy to operate

Posted 17.10.2022 | Human Rights, Information Law, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Following the previous ruling that the Home Secretary’s secret and blanket policy of seizing mobile phones and extracting data from migrants arriving by small boat was unlawful, the High Court on Friday 14 October 2022 took the unusual further step of holding another hearing to...

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13 Oct Tomorrow (14 October), the High Court will consider the Home Secretary’s breaches of her duty of candour for initially denying the existence of a blanket policy of seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones, a policy she later admitted was unlawful

Posted 13.10.2022 | Human Rights, Information Law, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

In a landmark judgment in R (HM, MA, & KH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 695 (Admin) in March of this year, the High Court held that the Home Office’s blanket and secret policy of seizing mobile phones from asylum...

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07 Apr Times Lawyer of the Week: Clare Jennings

Posted 07.04.2022 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Gold Jennings' Lawyer and Director Clare Jennings has been named Times Lawyer of the Week following her work on behalf of asylum seekers who successfully challenged the government’s secret blanket policy of seizing mobile phones from small boat arrivals. Last month the High Court ruled that...

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25 Mar High Court rules that Home Secretary’s secret policy of seizing and retaining mobile phones from asylum seekers arriving by small boat unlawful and breached human rights

Posted 25.03.2022 | Human Rights, Information Law, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Today, the High Court ruled that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and breached human rights and data protection laws by operating a secret, blanket policy of seizing, retaining and extracting data from the mobile phones of asylum seekers arriving by small boat. This claim for judicial...

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24 Mar Government permanently extends Free school meals and Pupil Premium

Posted 24.03.2022 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Gold Jennings is delighted to announce that following a cross departmental review - which was conducted following our clients' threat of judicial review -  the Government has decided to permanently extend Free School Meals and the Pupil Premium to children from NRPF families. Written statements -...

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25 Jan High Court to hear asylum seekers’ challenge to Home Secretary’s policy of seizing mobile phones from boat arrivals and extracting data

Posted 25.01.2022 | Human Rights, Information Law, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Today the High Court will hear a judicial review challenge to the Secretary of State's secret and blanket policy of seizing the mobile phones of all migrants who entered the UK by small boat between April 2020 and November 2020. Arrivals were also told, wrongly,...

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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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