Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
Mustafa, born in 2010 and soon to turn 16, has Prader Willi syndrome and presents with developmental delay and additional learning needs. He moved to a specialist residential school in 2021, where he lives full-time, 52 weeks a…
The claimants are seven prospective students affected by a change to the Immigration Rules which made nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan ineligible for a student visa — the "Student Visa Brake" — introduced by…
AA applied for recognition at common law of a step-parent adoption made in Thailand, approved in January 2013 and registered in February 2013. The child, ZZ, is now aged 16. His mother, MZZ, the first respondent, was a Thai…
The appellant, Wilfred Rabone, served in the Royal Navy from 4 May 1990 to 10 May 2022. In January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he was mobilised in support of the Welsh Ambulance Service and was based in Anglesey. Shortly…
The appellant, Ms Judith Mansell, was born on 17 August 1965 and suffers from fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, depression and high blood pressure. She claimed Personal Independence Payment on 4 October 2023. By…
The applicants, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, applied to the Court of Protection in respect of HH, a 30 year old woman then 37 weeks pregnant with…
The appellant, Neena Patel, was first entered on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors on 12 March 2024. On 5 September 2025 she committed an offence of exceeding the statutory speed limit (SP30), driving at 51mph on a…
The Appellant, anonymised as CNR under a rule 14 order, is a recipient of Personal Independence Payment. Following her renewal claim, the Secretary of State's decision-maker allowed the claim and awarded the standard rate of both…
The claimant, Umberto Silba, appealed against a decision of 3 May 2024 awarding him 2 points for the daily living component and 0 points for the mobility component of personal independence payment, so that he was entitled to…
South Yorkshire Police applied for a Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order in respect of the two young daughters of the respondent parents, F1 and F2. The concerns originated in a disclosure that the mother had herself…
Five post-1992 universities — Bath Spa, Buckinghamshire New, Leeds Trinity, London Metropolitan and Southampton Solent — sought judicial review of the Secretary of State for Education's decision that full-time degree courses…
The claimant, a boy referred to in the judgment as "Henry" and granted anonymity, was a 10-year-old pupil at a primary school operated by the defendant Academy Trust. He was known to have complex special educational needs and…
The claimant, Derek Kelly, lives at Pembroke House in Oxfordshire, next door to Chalfont, 3 Wroslyn Road, the property of the interested party, Frank Creese. In March 2023 West Oxfordshire District Council granted the interested…
The claimant, Teresa Baker, is an Irish traveller who lives with her extended family in caravans on the back and middle plots of land known as Pickett's Yard, Salfords, Surrey; the front plot is occupied by Berry Collins, a…
The claimants are a family of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers accommodated by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under sections 95-96 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. BM and SL arrived in the United Kingdom in…
Mr and Mrs Hill purchased land adjacent to 28 Badcock Road, Haslingfield, Cambridge at auction in October 2023. Haslingfield Parish Council nominated the land as an asset of community value on 20 October 2023, and South…
Cemex UK Operations Ltd applied for planning permission to extract sand and gravel from the Former Hamble Airfield in Hampshire, a former airfield of flat open land with no landscape, ecological or historical designations, but…
The claimant, referred to as Witness IIA126 under reporting restrictions, occupied a senior military position in theatre in Afghanistan. He received and responded to a request for a written statement under rule 9 of the Inquiry…
The appellant, Seerat Razzaq, applied to the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors for a trainee licence. The Registrar refused the application and the appellant appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory…
The two claimants, anonymised as CBC and GSD, are Afghan citizens who worked as security guards at the British Embassy, Kabul, employed by the private contractors G4S and, in GSD's case, later GardaWorld. Both applied for…