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23 June 2023: The Court of Appeal today dismissed Braintree District Council’s appeal against the refusal of their application for an injunction to prevent the development of an asylum seeker accommodation centre at Wethersfield airfield. The Court considered: 1. Whether the Council has jurisdiction to...

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush. We honour the Windrush Generation and their descendants, whose impact on the social, cultural and political landscape in the UK is immeasurable. It is important that we pause to celebrate this; particularly as,...

The Home Office has confirmed that it will not be pursuing its attempts to deport Osime Brown to Jamaica. Osime came to Britain with his family aged 4. He has not been to Jamaica since and has no family there. Osime is autistic and has...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Government’s policy to deport non-UK nationals was unlawful.

The High Court will today hand down an important judgment on whether the Home Office is meeting their duties to hold an effective investigation into the serious mistreatment and abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) by officers of the private security...

In a powerful judgment handed down today Mrs Justice May ruled that the government’s proposed inquiry into mistreatment and abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre by private security firm G4S officers will not comply with Article 3 of the European Convention on...

On 12 June, the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal of Braintree District Council against the High Court judgment rejecting their planning challenge to the proposed accommodation of 1,700 asylum seekers at Wethersfield airfield. Their opponents are the Home Secretary and the Secretary of...

The Court of Appeal has granted our client, local Braintree resident Gabriel Clarke-Holland, permission to intervene in the Braintree District Council planning appeal brought against the Home Secretary. The appeal relates to the Home Secretary’s plan to accommodate up to 1,700 asylum seekers at Wethersfield...

The Wethersfield and Scampton accommodation centre judicial review cases will be considered by a senior planning judge on 12 and 13 July 2023 to decide whether permission should be granted for the claims to continue to a full hearing. On 27 April 2023, our client,...

Our client (“BB”) has today been granted permission by the High Court for his judicial review of the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce a public inquiry in to abuse of detainees at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

We are seeking permission to continue our judicial review in the High Court to challenge the Home Secretary’s refusal to announce an independent public inquiry in to the widespread abuse revealed at G4S-run Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

High Court to rule on Home Office’s poor response to mistreatment of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre complies with Article 3 ECHR.