Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
Dr Nathan Cofnas was appointed in September 2022 to a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the philosophy faculty at Cambridge University, researching the biological basis of moral norms. Emmanuel College appointed…
The appellant, BB, is a national of Jamaica who is subject to an anonymity order. The Secretary of State for the Home Department refused his protection and human rights claims by a decision dated 29 May 2026, and he lodged this…
J's Supermarket Limited, a medium-sized South Asian grocery business in Tooting run by its director Mr Jalatheepan Ramachandran, was granted a sponsor licence on 16 January 2023 and issued certificates of sponsorship to Naveen…
The appellant, Cynthia Njoku, is a registered nurse who joined St Mary's Hospital, London in February 2019 and worked as a Band 6 nurse and Nurse in Charge on the Manvers Ward, a 33-bed respiratory ward. In February 2023 the…
The appellant, JU, is a national of Bangladesh who entered the United Kingdom as a visitor in October 2003. His leave subsequently expired and he remained here without leave. In 2020 he made a protection and human rights claim…
The appellant, Arjun Singh, appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) against the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors in connection with his application for a third trainee licence. Under Regulation…
The appellant, Mourad Ayadi, is a citizen of Algeria who says he arrived in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2002, entering illegally by lorry. He first came to the attention of the authorities on 8 September 2017, when he was…
The appellant, who claims to be Richard Andrew Smith, a British citizen born in Hammersmith on 28 June 1970, has also been known as Carl Barrington Johnson and, on the respondent's case, is in truth Barrington Winston Douglas, a…
The appellant, Khalid Masaud Quereshi, had been an approved driving instructor for 32 years, teaching over 1,000 pupils and holding a clean licence throughout. He advertised his Mercedes A200 for sale at £13,000 and, on 1 May…
AR is a 25-year-old man with a moderate to severe learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder who lived for most of his life with his parents, PR and QR. Since May 2025 he has lived in a supported living placement…
The appellant, Shamil Yaraliyev, is a thirty-eight year old citizen of Azerbaijan. He entered the United Kingdom with his wife and two children as visitors at Heathrow airport on 12 November 2024 and claimed asylum on arrival…
The appellant, David Lowe, was an Approved Driving Instructor whose name the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors removed from the Register by a decision made on 14 January 2026. The Registrar's reasons were that the…
The appellant, KSA, is a national of Ghana born in 1993 who entered the United Kingdom on 14 December 2024 with a six month visitor's visa valid until 5 June 2025. He claimed asylum on 27 December 2024 on the basis that he was at…
The appellant, DS, is an Albanian citizen born in 1990 who left Albania on 15 December 2013 and entered the United Kingdom clandestinely on 25 December 2013. He made no attempt to regularise his status and first came to the…
The appellant, Paul Henry Simms, was an approved driving instructor of some 25 years' standing whose name the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors decided to remove from the Register. The Registrar's reasons were that the…
Petropavlovsk plc, an English company concerned in gold mining in Russia, was the borrower under a US$200m term loan facility from JSC Gazprombank, the benefit of which was assigned on 19 April 2022 to the Russian company Atlas…
The appellant, YR, is a citizen of Afghanistan who entered the United Kingdom in October 2024 and made an application for leave to remain on 13 October 2024. He claimed to be at risk from the Taliban because his brother had…
The appellant, Tina Runnalls, was an approved driving instructor whose name the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors removed from the Register on 7 October 2025 on the ground that she was no longer a fit and proper person to…
The appellant, AK, is a citizen of India who entered the United Kingdom in 2006 and who says her problems with domestic violence began in 2011. On 19 March 2025 she applied for leave to remain, and the Secretary of State for the…
The claimant is a building company in the Lawford, Mistley and Manningtree area of Essex; the defendant is a multi-academy trust operating five schools, including Manningtree High School. In 2015 the claimant entered into a land…