Strategic Legal Fund grantees Commons Legal have put out a call for evidence to gather views from practitioners and to conduct pre-litigation research into the controversial measure they believe may impact on the perception of fairness in the criminal justice system. Read Audrey Cherryl Mogan‘s blog post in The Justice Gap below Anyone who has witnessed criminal proceedings will be familiar with […]
Funded by the Strategic Legal Fund, Project 17 and Deighton Pierce Glynn have conducted pre-litigation research into the practice of ’embedding’ immigration officers in local authority children’s services departments. At least 9 different local authorities have been using this approach of late. Based on their research, they are concerned that not only does the presence […]
One additional grant was awarded in the September round. Migrant Legal Project – £4,611 Migrant Legal Project has been awarded funds for research and preparation of briefing materials to call for a reversion of the Civil Legal Aid Regulations which came into force 1st September. These act as a barrier to legally aided clients moving their […]
In 2014 the SLF funded research into systemic obstacles to children’s registration as British citizens. See the report here. Recently, estimates have shown that as many as 400 children have been denied citizenship for failing to satisfy the good character requirement since it was introduced in 2006. Read more in the Guardian piece. The Project for Registering Children as […]
“You spend your entire life saving towards a goal that’s constantly moving forward” It takes 10 years and 4 costly Home Office applications to become a UK citizen. Watch this new video by Let Us Learn and funded by SLF to find out the impact this is having on young UK migrants.
One additional grant was awarded in the July round. Commons Law CIC – £7,636 Commons, a not-for-profit criminal law firm, has been awarded funds to carry out preliminary research into the expansive reach of the government’s immigration control and hostile environment policy into the criminal justice system. Since November 2017, there has been a requirement for defendants […]
The UK is first among the EU members states to provide childcare provision nationally during asylum interviews. For over a decade campaigners across the country have worked on this issue and now there is finally a system in place so that no woman is faced with having her children present at her asylum interview and […]
Three grants were issued by the Strategic Legal Fund in July. The applications submitted to date showcase a great need for funding strategic legal work in an increasingly hostile environment for migrant families in the UK, and ILPA is pleased to be able to support the important work that goes on. The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington […]
SLF funded Islington Law Centre and MiCLU represented The Children’s Society in their 5 year long legal challenge to the government’s 2013 removal of legal aid for children’s immigration cases. In a Ministerial Statement in the House of Commons on 12 July 2018 Lucy Frazer (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice) announced that changes will […]
The Government is now carrying out its long-awaited review of the changes to legal aid that it introduced in 2012, which removed financial support for a range of civil matters including all non-asylum immigration cases. The review will conclude in September 2018 and an announcement from the Government is expected by the end of the […]