Matthew Gold and Co. Ltd. have been featured in a documentary by Gutter Space which explores refugee camps in the UK, featuring our very own Olivia Halse. View it here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D041ynKHEJU For more information, please contact us at info@matthewgold.co.uk or 020 8445 9268....
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...
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...
Following a claim for judicial review the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has confirmed that many more babies and toddlers from the poorest families in the UK will be entitled support under the Healthy Start Scheme. The Healthy Start Scheme aims to reduce...
Before Dr Anton van Dellen, HM Assistant Coroner West London Coroner’s Court 10 – 21 May 2021 Winston Augustine, 43, died on Thursday 30 August 2018 at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. An inquest has concluded that multiple failures by the prison service to meet Winston’s basic needs directly...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
As of 15th January, Matthew Gold & Company Limited are excited to announce we have moved into a new office located at 11 Jerusalem Passage, London, EC1V 4JP ...