Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The appellant, Mustafa Barak, trades as a sole trader running Moulin Rouge Fish and Chips, a business providing both takeaway and eat-in meals. In August 2020 he registered for and operated the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme, the…
ROR made a claim for personal independence payment on 02 November 2017 but was awarded insufficient points for entitlement. He claimed again on 08 June 2022 and underwent a video medical assessment on 19 October 2022. On 27…
The appellant, Mr Alastair Readman, is a trainee driving instructor who has never been entered on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors. To qualify as an approved driving instructor a candidate must pass a three-part…
FHR is a 28 year old British Muslim man, born in December 1997, who worked as a mechanic and was close to his mother FN, his father FZR and his sister FRR. On 29 January 2020 he attempted to hang himself and sustained a severe…
The applicant, Roy Warner, complained to the Information Commissioner on 11 June 2024 about Waddesdon Estates LLP, concerning a photograph taken of him and the way that photograph was being handled. When more than three months…
The prosecution appealed against a ruling made by His Honour Judge Collery KC at a preparatory hearing in the Basildon Crown Court, and the Court of Appeal Criminal Division gave judgment on that appeal on 4 March 2026, reported…
The Appellant, anonymised as SRT under a rule 14 order, claimed Personal Independence Payment. The Secretary of State's decision-maker allowed the claim, scoring her at 10 points for both the daily living and the mobility…
The three appellants, C1, C2 and C3, had brought personal injury claims following road traffic accidents, all of them represented by Ersan Solicitors. A group of insurers, suspecting that a large number of such claims were…
Slough Borough Council brought care proceedings, issued on 30 May 2025, in respect of two girls, [A] and her much younger half-sister [B], before HHJ Vincent sitting as a section 9 Deputy High Court Judge in the Family Court at…
The appellant, Muhammad Asif Afzal, sought to qualify as an Approved Driving Instructor. Qualification requires passing a three-part Qualifying Examination, with three attempts permitted at each part and the whole examination to…
Dr Robert James Abrahart requested information from the Department for Education on 13 August 2024, seeking copies of email records that had been withheld from an earlier requester on 2 May 2024. That earlier request had sought…
The claimant, referred to in these anonymised proceedings as DN, claimed personal independence payment. By a decision dated 11 July 2024 the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions awarded her 5 points for the daily living…
The appellant, Mr Paramjeet Singh Bhogal, was a member of the National Education Union. On 7 November 2023 the union commenced disciplinary proceedings against him, the complaint being brought by the National Officers and…
MB is an Albanian national born on 26 December 1993 who arrived in the United Kingdom in August 2023 after accumulating a gambling debt of £11,000 owed to a man he named as Artur. Responding to an advertisement for work abroad…
The appellant, RA, a citizen of Bangladesh who was granted anonymity, arrived in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2022 with leave to enter as a student valid until 13 September 2023, having paid £8,500 towards his course fees. He did…
The Appellant, anonymised as JCD under a rule 14 order, claimed Personal Independence Payment. The Secretary of State's decision-maker disallowed the claim on 30 January 2024, scoring the Appellant at nil points for both the…
AWZ is the mother of a boy with a range of disabilities giving rise to special educational needs requiring special educational provision, and the case concerned his Education, Health and Social Care Plan. The dispute with…
The appellant, AZ, a citizen of Afghanistan, appealed under the Nationality, Immigration, and Asylum Act 2002 against the Secretary of State's decision of 6 December 2024 refusing the protection claim he had made on 1 March 2024…
Mark Armstrong describes himself as a victim of historical child abuse at Kirklevington Detention Centre and as the representative of over 850 survivors, and has made a large number of requests under section 1 of the Freedom of…
The appellant, KS, is a 21-year-old Turkish national of Kurdish ethnicity who arrived in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2024 and claimed asylum the same day. He asserted a well-founded fear of persecution at the hands of the…