Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The claimant, an Algerian national born on 1 July 1977, entered the United Kingdom illegally, saying he had arrived in about March 2011. He accumulated convictions from 2013 onwards, mostly for theft, together with a drugs…
Z, a teenage girl, had been groomed and sexually exploited and was made the subject of a final care order in 2018 on a care plan of long-term foster care, her parents accepting that the threshold criteria under s.31(2) of the…
The appellant is a citizen of the Philippines, born in March 1980, who arrived in the United Kingdom at the age of 6 as a dependant of his mother. Beaten by his stepfather, he ran away from home and was placed in care at a Dr…
The claimant, Mrs Sally Brayshaw, became a patient of the Apsley Surgery, Stoke-on-Trent, in July 2012. The surgery was owned and operated by the first defendants, two partners who are not doctors. She had a long history of…
The claimant, Christie Elan-Cane, aged 60, was registered female at birth but grew increasingly detached from that assigned gender, undergoing a bi-lateral mastectomy in 1989 and a total hysterectomy in 1991 before settling on a…
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, a body corporate created by section 68 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, commenced judicial review proceedings on 11 December 2014 against the Department of Justice and the Attorney…
Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar brought judicial review proceedings challenging the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to bring a prosecution for alleged cooperation and participation in their rendition to…
The appeal arose out of 14 personal injury claims in which the claimants had succeeded and become entitled to costs. GSD Law Limited was on the record for the claimants in nine of those cases and acted as agents for Sovereign…
The claimant, Persimmon Homes (North East) Limited, controls part of the Upper Callerton site within the Callerton Neighbourhood Growth Area on the north-western fringe of Newcastle, allocated for approximately 3,000 homes by the…
RY, an 81-year-old retired engineer from Port Talbot, suffered a cardiac arrest in June 2016 after what was probably a cardiac rhythm disturbance, with a prolonged delay before CPR began. Although heart function returned, CT…
XPL Ltd. operates a bus and coach depot at Plot 17 on the Harlow Business Park, Roydon Road, Harlow, from which it runs local bus services, school services, commuter coaches to London and private hire coaches. The site had been…
Bashir Ahmed, a 55 year old British citizen who has lived in Great Britain since 1975 and has no recorded convictions or cautions in the UK, was sought on an accusation European Arrest Warrant issued by the Chief Public…
CS is a young woman with two children who, until shortly before Christmas, was in a relationship with the father of her younger child, a relationship said to have become characterised by domestic violence. In early December 2015…
The appellant, Adebayo Abdul, is a Nigerian national aged 41 who has been continuously resident in the United Kingdom since he was 16. He has two British citizen daughters, aged 13 and 11. He was convicted of a series of fraud…
The claimants — the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the Musicians' Union and UK Music 2009 Limited — sought judicial review of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills's decision to…
The appellant, a Nigerian national born in November 1974, came to the United Kingdom in October 2004, aged nearly 30, on a student visa valid until January 2006 and later extended to October 2008. In July 2008 he was arrested and…
The appellant, Mr Brand, a Polish national, was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Regional Court in Krakow seeking his return to Poland to serve the balance — some two years — of sentences totalling three…
The appellant, Sultana Kishver, is a national of Pakistan who arrived in the United Kingdom with her husband on 12 September 2004 with leave to enter as visitors, due to expire on 1 March 2005. In January 2005 both made…
On 22 October 1988 the claimant, Andrew Longmire, was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a tariff of 20 years, following guilty pleas to 11 offences of rape, 3 of attempted rape, buggery, indecent assault and 2 offences of…
KM is a young man of 26 with a range of serious physical and mental disabilities: he was born with no eyes or optic nerves, has learning difficulties and an autistic spectrum disorder, growth hormone deficiency, spinal disease…