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The Home Office has agreed to pay an asylum seeker £15,500 in damages for unlawfully sharing confidential documentation regarding his persecution in his country of origin with the authorities there, in a bid to verify the documents’ authenticity.

A disability rights campaigner has issued judicial review proceedings in the High Court challenging the decision to cap support for disabled people in work under the Access to Work Scheme.

The Upper Tribunal has issued its decision in the Freedom of Information Act appeal by Rights Watch (UK) against the government’s refusal to disclose its lethal drone strike legal advice. Although the Tribunal refused to order disclosure of the advice, it made significant rulings regarding the...

EU Court today gave its judgment in the legal challenge to the UK's data retention law. The Court rejected the law.

The Health Secretary has settled a JR claim challenging the Government’s failure to consult on the removal of exemption from NHS charges from asylum seekers

The Court of Appeal have allowed the appeal on the Operation Nexus Challenge.

The jury at the inquest into the death of Tedros Kahssay yesterday concluded that a number of errors by the police, prison and healthcare staff (Care UK) contributed to Tedros’ self-inflicted death at HMP Pentonville on 19 January 2016.

Tedros, a refugee originally from Eritrea, was found hanging in his cell on G wing in HMP Pentonville on 19 January 2016. The inquest began on 28.11.16.

The High Court has given permission in a claim seeking to tackle the exceptionally high suicide rate at HMP Woodhill.

The High Court will hear whether rough sleeping EEA nationals are abusing their EU law free movement rights on 21 November 2017.

The High Court ruled that the Home Office had acted unlawfully in the way in which they detailed and tried to remove a trafficking victim.

The Oil Justice Project is holding a free event at SOAS on 13 November 2017 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.