27 February 2024: Four asylum seekers who issued claims for judicial review against the Home Secretary after being accommodated at the controversial military site, RAF Wethersfield, have today been selected as lead claimants and granted permission to proceed with their claims to trial in July...
In a highly critical judgment yesterday, the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) severely criticised the Home Secretary’s flawed conduct in judicial proceedings brought by the Claimant, a Palestinian refugee, challenging the refusal to grant her a visa on the basis that her presence in...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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,...