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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13 Apr Napier Barracks: Two Day Trial Begins in High Court on 14 April

Posted 13.04.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

Tomorrow the High Court will begin a two day trial before the honourable Mr Justice Linden to determine whether the Home Secretary's use of the former military Napier Barracks as asylum support accommodation was lawful. The claim is brought by 6 Claimants in 5 joined claims,...

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02 Mar High Court grants permission for legal challenge to the exclusion of disadvantaged migrant children from the Healthy Start scheme

Posted 02.03.2021 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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19 Feb High Court challenge to Home Secretary’s unlawful imposition of 23-hour daily curfew on those in asylum support accommodation

Posted 19.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

The Claimant is an asylum seeker in hotel accommodation provided by the Home Secretary. He has been told that he must remain in his hotel for 23 hours per day. That rule applies to all of the asylum seekers accommodated in the Claimant's hotel, and...

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16 Feb High Court grants permission for Napier barracks legal challenge following Home Secretary’s concession it is arguable that conditions breach human rights

Posted 16.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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05 Feb High Court orders the Secretary of State to move another asylum seeker from Napier barracks within 24 hours

Posted 05.02.2021 | Human Rights, Judicial Review, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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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

Posted 10.12.2020 | Discrimination and Equality, Human Rights, Migrant Rights 0 Comments

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...

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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...

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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...

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