As part of their work with young unaccompanied asylum seekers living in the camps in Calais, Islington Law Centre (ILC) has successfully reunited one young person with their family in the UK. Regulations state that asylum seekers must make an initial asylum claim in the first country they reach but they can have their application examined in […]
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has successfully represented a child refugee in their appeal, before the Upper Tier Tribunal at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, against a decision to refuse their application to be reunited with their mother and brother. Under the current rules governing family reunion, adult refugees in Britain […]
Just for Kids Law (JFKL) has successfully intervened in a challenge to the 2012 Education Regulations which removed entitlement to students loans for migrants who did not have indefinite leave to remain. The regulations meant that many young migrants who had other types of leave to remain in the UK, such as discretionary or limited leave to […]
The Migrants’ Law Project and Detention Action have successfully challenged the lawfulness of the government’s Detained Fast Track system in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. In response to judgments from both courts in June 2015, the government has temporarily suspended the fast track procedures. Under the Detained Fast Track system, asylum seekers […]
In November 2014 the SLF grant funded Public Law Project (PLP) to carry out pre-litigation research into the lawfulness of aspects of the Immigration Act 2014 and related policies. The research targeted a new Home Office policy whereby some migrants could be removed from the UK without being served with removal directions. This policy would have made […]
In July 2012 the SLF grant funded Islington Law Centre (ILC) to consider possible challenges to the lawfulness of aspects of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012. ILC proposed that legal assistance for refugee family reunion cases should still be available under a strict statutory interpretation of LASPO. In addition, challenges to the Exceptional Cases […]
In September 2014 the SLF grant funded the Asylum Support Appeals Projects (ASAP) to intervene in the case of a destitute former asylum seeker, with outstanding representations, who had been refused support by the Home Office. He was refused support on the grounds that his outstanding representations, which were based on having a private and family life […]
We are delighted to announce that the Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants will continue for two further years from January 2015. The project will continue to be hosted by Trust for London, making grants jointly funded with Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. In addition, we are really pleased that Unbound Philanthropy has joined us as a partner and is […]
Legal Services Agency (LSA), a Law centre in Scotland, have launched the findings of their research into the treatment of separated children who arrive in Scotland aged 16 and 17. The SLF had grant funded the LSA following concerns they had identified about the variation in the level of care being provided to this group. Local authorities in Scotland […]
In a landmark judgment on the first ever modern slavery case heard by the Supreme Court, the Court unanimously ruled that trafficked people have a right to claim damages from their traffickers irrespective of their immigration status. Anti Slavery International intervened in the Supreme Court case and were represented by Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). The SLF had […]