Judicial review is the legal mechanism for challenging the decisions and omissions of public authorities. It is a vital safeguard against arbitrary, unlawful, or unfair actions that can have huge impacts on peoples' lives.

We have one of the largest and most respected claimant-focused judicial review teams in the UK, consistently recognised by leading legal directories. The Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession describes us as a “pre-eminent firm advising individual claimants and intervening NGOs,” while Legal 500 calls us “one of the best claimant teams around.” Our team is top-rated in the Times Best Law Firms.

Our clients include individuals, charities, NGOs, public institutions and private companies.

For the last quarter of a century our lawyers have acted in hundreds of judicial review claims in a wide variety of sectors and against a diverse array of public authorities. These have included:

• Challenges to important government policies and practices governing migrant's rights, child support; civil partnerships; medical treatment; the Windrush Scheme; and protection of former Afghan employees.
• Challenges to cuts in public services.
• Judicial review of policing and prosecutorial decisions.
• Challenging procurement decisions that negatively affect important service providers, such as charities assisting victims of domestic violence.
• Planning and environmental law legal challenges.
• Challenges to Home Office citizenship, visa and deportation decisions.
• Challenging unlawful detention.

Our client-focused approach ensures that human rights breaches and discriminatory practices are robustly challenged as part of the judicial review process. Where appropriate, we advise on connected claims for compensation. We are particularly well regarded for our work in relation to Migrants Rights, state failures to protect, international cases, and unlawful detention, amongst others.

We also provide training and advice to public sector organizations.

Wherever possible we seek to overturn decisions without the need for court proceedings and we have an excellent track record in doing so.