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Sian Reeves acted for the Home Secretary in the four lead judicial review claims challenging the accommodation of asylum seekers at the ex-Ministry of Defence site at Wethersfield, pursuant to the asylum support scheme in the Immigration and Asylum Act…
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…
TGC Collective Redress, Business and Human Rights newsletter – Second Edition, January 2025: https://crbhr.com/ Chambers is delighted to have published the second edition of our newsletter. It comprises five articles across a number of issues that will be of interest to…
Russell Hopkins and Anisa Kassamali are instructed by Pogust Goodhead in what is likely to be the largest ever group action brought in the English Courts: Municipio de Mariana and others v BHP Group. Russell and Anisa are led by…
On 2 October 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Viegas and Sanches v Cutrale & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 1122 following a three day hearing on 3, 4 and 8 July 2024. Juliet Wells and Anisa Kassamali…
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales is hosting a panel discussion as a side event to the 56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on ‘The Rule of Law in Jeopardy in the UAE’. The event…
Anisa Kassamali, together with Dan Oudkerk KC of Essex Court Chambers and Mark Friston of Hailsham Chambers, successfully resisted a strike out application on behalf of thousands of individuals who allegedly suffered as a result of the collapse of the…
Rodney Dixon KC, assisted by Sebastian Bates, has replied on behalf of the applicant in Akremi v Republic of Tunisia, a case currently pending before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The written reply addresses factual and legal…
The collapse of the Fundão Dam in November 2015 has been described as the worst environmental disaster in Brazil’s history. It is alleged that BHP is responsible for that collapse. Following a case management conference on 18 April 2024, Mrs…
