The Strategic Legal Fund recently awarded one grant. Commons Legal CIC was awarded further funds following preliminary and secondary research for litigation preparation into the implementation of the requirement for defendants in criminal proceedings to provide their nationality to the courts. Failure to provide this information is a criminal offence, regardless of whether immigration status has any […]
In December 2019, the High Court ruled that the £1,012 fee the Home Office charges children to register as a British citizen was unlawful. The case was brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) and two children (aged 3 and 13) born in the UK. The court found that the […]
The Strategic Legal Fund recently awarded one grant. The Child Poverty Action Group has been awarded funds to develop a challenge to what the Government say is a change in child tax credit eligibility introduced by Universal Credit, leading to refugee families with children being excluded from claiming Tax Credit for the retrospective period prior to […]
SLF funded the Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to intervene in the Court of Appeal in K v SSHD. The case concerns children being denied their entitlement to British nationality through their biological father if the mother is married at the time of the child’s birth to a man who is not British. The government has […]
The SLF has updated its funding guidelines. Take a look here and as always, get in touch with our project manager Bella if you want to discuss a potential funding proposal.
The government just announced that The Legal Aid for Separated Children Order 2019 comes into force today, 25th October. This reinstates legal aid for non-asylum immigration and citizenship matters under 18s not in the care of a parent, guardian or legal authority. Previously, they had to apply for exceptional case funding. This follows the successful challenge brought […]
Migrants’ Law Project, a strategic legal organisation based at Islington Law Centre, has recently developed a podcast ‘It Can Be Done‘ to support lawyers, students, and activists to understand practically how the law, and strategic litigation, can be used for social change. The first series will look at the work of lawyers, activists, and others during the […]
The Strategic Legal Fund awarded two grants in its September round: ECPAT UK been awarded funding to prepare a dossier with expert evidence on the failures in the current system to protect child victims of trafficking. The dossier will request the Department of Education, the Home Office and other relevant state bodies to conduct an Article 4 […]
Earlier this week, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Bajratari v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Directive 2004/38/EC) Case C-93/18. The Court confirmed that an EU citizen minor has sufficient resources not to become an unreasonable burden on the host member state social assistance system even if they are derived from income obtained […]
Following successful litigation, the Government has agreed to amend the existing regulations on early years provision for two year-olds to include families with no recourse to public funds. The current provision enables families in receipt of low-income benefits to access 15 hours of free childcare for two year-olds. This provision has often excluded some of […]