Migrant Legal Project SLF funding was awarded to Migrant Legal Project for pre-litigation evidence-gathering and advice from PLP on a potential legal challenge to the outsourced system for providing biometrics as part of refugee settlement applications under which MLP clients have felt compelled to pay unaffordable sums to secure an appointment or to travel to one. MLP delivers publicly-funded and not-for-profit legal […]
Migrants’ Right Network SLF funding was granted to Migrants’ Right Network for pre-litigation research to identify potential Highly Skilled Migrant (HSM) claimants to build a legal strategy for potential further strategic litigation. Numerous cases post-Balajigari have raised various common legal themes which may require litigation to ensure fairness and transparency in how these cases are determined. Migrants’ […]
Here for Good SLF funding was awarded to Here for Good for pre-litigation research into bringing a challenge against the pending prosecutions guidance found in the EU Settlement Scheme: Suitability Requirements guidance document (‘the guidance’) updated on 6 April 2021.Here for Good helps European citizens and their families secure their immigration status in the UK, especially those with vulnerabilities and/or […]
Refugees for Justice have been awarded funding for strategic litigation research into the use of hotel accommodation in Glasgow and the Park Inn incident. Refugees for Justice is a group of refugees and asylum seekers, fighting for justice, accountability, and change to the asylum system in the UK. Formed after the tragedy in Park Inn, Glasgow using legal […]
The SLF is pleased to announce the following application deadlines for new funding rounds:5pm on Tuesday the 4th of May 2021,5pm on Thursday 1st July 2021,5pm on Wednesday 1st September 2021,5pm on Tuesday 2nd November 2021.
The SLF is delighted to announce a series of four free introductory webinars on strategic litigation for ILPA members in 2021. The trainings are introductory courses for small charities and NGOs who are new to strategic litigation. The webinars will provide an overview of strategic litigation and how it can be used to bring about changes to law, policy and […]
ILPA is delighted to announce that we are expanding the remit of the Strategic Legal Fund from the 4th of February 2021. Following a consultation process with SLF expert panel members, funders and ILPA trustees, a decision has been taken to remove the age limit of beneficiaries, currently young people under 25, to open the fund to migrants of all […]
A test case brought by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has found EU nationals legally resident in the UK were unlawfully excluded from claiming Universal Credit. CPAG estimates that to date there are over 50,000 households who were refused benefits they were entitled to since November 2019 as a result of the application of the unlawful […]
Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) have been awarded funding to prepare a strategic legal challenge against the SSHD’s recently-announced amendment to the Immigration Rules which introduces ‘rough sleeping’ as a basis to refuse or cancel leave to enter or remain in the UK, due to come into force on 1st December 2020.
JCWI has been awarded funding to seek to intervene in NM (Pakistan) v SSHD C5/2019/0994. In granting permission to appeal, Holroyde LJ found this was an appropriate case to provide guidance on the approach to a family relationship in the case of an ageing parent living in the UK with the support of adult children.