A message from Solange Valdez-Symonds regarding their SLF funded research project: We would be really grateful if you were to contact us if you have experience of advising a minor with good character issues relating to registration as a British citizen. PRCBC is currently working on its further research funded by the SLF on the application of section 41A (good […]
The Strategic Legal Fund is keen to increase the capacity of the sector in bringing strategic challenges to improve the situation of young migrants. We recently consulted the sector on what further support would be useful and as a result we have developed a series of training courses around strategic litigation for social change. Our […]
SLF funded Let Us Learn has just published a new report on the impact Limited Leave to Remain is having on young people in the UK. The interviews were conducted by Dami Makinde, Let us Learn co-lead; and Zeno Akaka, Let us Learn project worker. Analysis, report and commentary by Fiona Bawdon, legal affairs journalist and Let us Learncampaigns/communications […]
The Strategic Legal Fund awarded one grant in its July round Deighton Pierce Glynn – £4,018 Deighton Pierce Glynn has been awarded funds to prepare an intervention for Amnesty International UK in a judicial review by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) and three individual claimants against the £1,012 Home Office […]
The Strategic Legal Fund is delighted to hear that our grantee Children’s Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has won the award for Best Legal Aid Team at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards. This award is a recognition of their highly-skilled legal work bringing test cases which establish and protect families’ rights. The Legal […]
The SLF-funded AIRE centre intervened in the CJEU case of Ermira Bajratari v Secretary of State for the Home Department, regarding “Chen parents” – non-EU citizens with EU citizen children who can claim derivative rights of residence so long as they are self-sufficient. The two questions put to CJEU were whether income from employment that is unlawful under national law establish, in whole or […]
A new SLF funded report by the Unity Project and Deighton Pierce Glynn reveals the discriminatory effects of NRPF conditions and highlights many cases of children living in poverty, denied access to crucial benefits, including social housing and free school meals. The report’s findings show: 85% of those seeking to overturn their NRPF-status are single mothers52% were forced to sleep […]
The chair of SLF’s expert panel, Manjit Gill QC, instructed by SLF funded CORAM Children’s Legal Centre, just won a positive ruling at the Court of Justice of the European Union in an intercountry adoption appeal concerning an Algerian child. The CJEU was asked to make a preliminary ruling on whether a child who is in the permanent legal guardianship of an EU citizen […]
The Court of Appeal recently ruled that the Home Office’s policy on deciding the age of young people seeking asylum is unlawful and must be rewritten, as it fails to ensure that children are not mistakenly treated as adults. In ordering the guidance to be revised, the judge stated that the term ‘significantly over 18’ […]
The Strategic Legal Fund awarded two grants in May. Child Poverty Action Group – £6,237 Under Appendix EU of the Immigration Rules, EU citizens (and their family members) present in UK for less than 5 years can obtain limited leave to remain. The 7th May amendments seek to exclude from entitlement to means-tested benefits (and child […]