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The appellant claimed that she had been unlawfully detained pending her deportation. A new medical report advancing a new diagnosis of her condition was submitted to the Home Secretary but was not properly dealt with. However, on judicial review she…
The Home Secretary wished to deport the appellant following the end of his criminal sentence. In the interim, she imposed restrictions on him under paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 3 to the Immigration Act 1971, including a curfew. Did that power…
The appellant had been granted bail during deportation proceedings, which had become so protracted (because of his own refusal to identify himself) that it would no longer have been lawful to detain him because of the limitation imposed by the…
Instructed for SSWP. Upper Tribunal rejected FM’s ECHR and Equality Act 2010 challenge to the past presence test applicable to Disability Living Allowance.
Successful Judicial Review proceedings challenging the HSE’s dispute process for challenging findings of contravention and fees issued under the Fee for Intervention (FFI) scheme and two specific notices. The HSE settled the judicial review out of court shortly before the…
Led by John Jones QC. The case dealt with the status of the Council Framework Decision 2009/299/JHA in domestic law following the United Kingdom’s decision to opt into a number of measures on 1st December 2014 within the field of…
Led by Mark Summers QC on behalf of Mr Ijaz who successfully challenged the order for extradition, as neither a decision to charge nor a decision to try had been taken in Italy.
Led by Mark Summers QC in successfully obtaining a writ of habeas corpus, thereby nullifying a decision by a Master to retrospectively extend the required period for her removal. Following this decision, Ms Netecza was discharged by Westminster Magistrates’ Court…
Led by Helen Malcolm QC in this successful challenge to a District Judge’s decision to re-open extradition proceedings by relying on section 142 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.
Keith represented the Air Accident Investigation Branch in this leading case on the inter-relationship between inquests and investigations by the state’s independent specialist investigators.
