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 […]
The Home Office has announced a funding boost of over £30 million for local authorities looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. This means that the rates currently paid at £71, £91 and £95 (depending on the age of a child and when they arrived in the UK) will be uplifted to £114 per child per night […]
SLF grantees Project for Registering Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) are running a one-day training session together with ILPA on children’s British citizenship rights. The course will take place at Garden Court Chambers on the 9th July and will be run by Solange Valdez-Symonds, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Ronan Toal and Amanda Weston QC. It will draw on the litigation, research and experience […]
The Strategic Legal Fund recently hosted a roundtable event which took place at No5 Chambers in London. The event aimed to encourage creative participation and cross-sector collaboration with organisations that work with young migrants. Last year, we identified three particular issues; the hostile environment policies; the growing number of NRPF conditions affecting families; and the issue of […]