03 Jun

Posted 03.06.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights

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...

02 Mar

Posted 02.03.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights

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...

16 Feb

Posted 16.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights

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...

10 Dec

Posted 10.12.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Migrant Rights

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...

01 Oct

Posted 01.10.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights, Uncategorized

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

Posted 01.10.2020 | Civil Claims Against Public Authorities, Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights

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

Posted 04.09.2020 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights

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...

12 Aug

Posted 12.08.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights, Uncategorized

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...