Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
Hodge Jones and Allen, a firm of solicitors, acted for Nathan O'Brien in proceedings before the Crown Court at Portsmouth, where he was indicted on a single count of conspiracy to kidnap. The defence was publicly funded under a…
The appellant, BMC Building and Landscapes Limited, was the subject of enforcement action by the Pensions Regulator in respect of its automatic enrolment duties. The Regulator issued the appellant with a compliance notice on 25…
The claimant, Mr Paul Faghy, and his partner Ms Kane moved from Working Tax Credit to Universal Credit, claiming as joint claimants on 8 March 2025. Mr Faghy owns two properties in Hartlepool personally — one let to a long-term…
The appellant, Keith Joyce, claimed a Personal Independence Payment on 29 March 2023 on the basis of difficulties with his eyes, arising from a diagnosis of blepharospasm, a neurological condition causing sporadic spasms in the…
The appellant, Muhammad Hasnain, acting by his appointee Kosar Parveen, challenged a decision of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions dated 2 February 2024 which had refused him the daily living component of personal…
SM is an adult woman born in 1997 with diagnoses of severe learning disability, catatonia, major depression and autism. She lives in a supported living placement — a single occupancy bungalow — with a care package commissioned by…
The claimant, LBZ, is a Chinese national who has lived in the United Kingdom since 2018, having entered on a visit visa valid from 1 February 2018 until 1 February 2020 after leaving China because of problems with a loan shark…
Mr Dieu Quang Tran and Mrs Phung De Tran are the joint owners of 167 Stanley Road, Cheadle, a substantial five bedroom detached house of around 325 sq m standing in a plot of about 0.42 acres. Stanley Road runs parallel to the…
The appellant, AM, is a citizen of Iran born in 2005 who applied on 15 September 2024 for protection and on human rights grounds. The Secretary of State for the Home Department refused those claims by a decision dated 17 January…
The claimant lives at Manor House in the hamlet of Long Thurlow, Suffolk; the interested party lives in the adjoining property, Cadogan House. Badwell Ash Parish Council, whose area covers both Long Thurlow and the village of…
The appellant, Mrs Monuara Begum, is a Bangladeshi national born on 1 January 1969. She entered the United Kingdom on 23 December 2023 on a six-month visit visa which expired on 13 June 2024, and on 7 June 2024, before that…
Somerset Council, the local planning authority, applied for a final injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in respect of land adjoining 6 Oxen Lane, North Curry, Somerset, occupied as a…
KJV applied to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 in respect of sexual abuse inflicted on her by her father over five years, between the ages of 13…
Mr Fitzgerald was sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 May 2010 for a murder committed on 16 April 2009, with a minimum term of 13 years which, allowing for a qualifying curfew, expired on 14 September 2022. Following an oral…
The appellant, MO, is a citizen of Iraq of Kurdish ethnicity who left Iraq unlawfully and travelled through Europe, claiming asylum in Germany before coming to the United Kingdom. He made an application for leave to remain on 28…
The applicant, Gezim Cela, is sought by the Government of Albania for extradition to serve a ten-year prison sentence imposed in December 2018 for a group export of some 50kg of cannabis from Albania to Kosovo in October 2015. He…
Salmon Scotland, a trade body representing the Scottish salmon industry, applied to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on 20 July 2023 for a non-minor amendment to the Scottish Farmed Salmon…
The appellant, LC, had been a nurse for 18 years and at the material time was employed by an NHS trust at an in-patient CAMHS assessment unit, Ruby Lodge, caring for young people with learning disabilities and suspected mental…
The applicant, the City Doctoral Researchers Association, complained to the Charity Commission of England and Wales about the conduct of three charities towards its members: the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher…
The appellant, M, a young person represented by his parent, was a Year 11 pupil at an academy school. His attendance was minimal: in the academic year from September 2023 he attended for only 17 sessions, or 8.5 days, three of…