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Sian Reeves (leading Jonathan Worboys) acted for the successful Defendants, the Secretaries of State for the Home Department and Defence in R (QP1 & Anor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2025] EWHC 1388 (Admin). The case was…
Sian Reeves (alongside Rajkiran Arhestey and led by Alan Payne KC) acted for the Home Secretary in R (ABW) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 3205 (Admin). This is one of a number of claims…
On 24 January 2025, the Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Warby and King LJJ) allowed the appeal against a reporting restrictions order made by Williams J in December 2024. The reporting restrictions order prevented…
The Inquest touching upon the death of RN concluded at Bedford Coroner’s Court, sitting at Ampthill, on 7 August 2024. The jury, having heard evidence from 20 live witnesses, concluded that RN hung himself in his prison cell at HMP…
Sian Reeves represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in an immigration statutory appeal before the Court of Appeal (Newey LJ, Snowden LJ and Whipple LJ). The appeal concerned a narrow issue about the application of the “very significant…
On 19 December 2022, the Divisional Court handed down an important judgment in claims for judicial review challenging the government’s proposal to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their asylum claims determined there. Sian Reeves, instructed by the Government Legal…
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future. Andrew O’Connor KC, Fiona Canby, Zeenat Islam & Alice Hands form part of the…
Acted for the Ministry of Justice in this 3 day inquest into the death of EH, who had hanged himself at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. The inquest considered a wide range of issues, including EH’s location on the first night centre…
