Local Authority offers suitable accommodation for family following judicial review proceedings
Monday 13 Oct 2025
…9 October 2025. The Defendant Local Authority had applied to vary the timing for compliance with the interim order, but has not sought to stay its enforcement. The Claimant, TT…
Social Welfare Update: Health Secretary acted unlawfully by not publishing details of pandemic contracts within stipulated period breaching his own Transparency Policy
Thursday 25 Feb 2021
…time. The argument identified would be to scrutinise, question, raise issues with oversight bodies and Parliament and within the time scales provided by law. The judge held compliance with the…
High Court victory for victims of serious crimes committed by mental health patients
Friday 13 Jan 2023
…principle of open justice. The case was brought by Teresa Maher, supported by her daughter and family. Ms Maher’s son Kyle was killed in 2017, aged just 21. At the time…
Abigail Holt
Call: 1993
Abigail has over 25 years of experience focusing mainly on accident, disease, health and medical-related issues. Her caseload concentrates on difficult tort/negligence cases: catastrophic injury and death; personal injury claims…
Home Office dispersal of asylum seekers in Bristol – failure of Secretary of State to lawfully apply her own policy
Thursday 1 Jul 2021
…accommodation in Gloucester. This case was part of 3 similar cases which had been brought at the same time with the two other cases settling. The Claimant was due to…
Stephen Simblet KC
Call: 1991 | Silk: 2020
Stephen is Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers. Stephen’s practice focuses on individual rights in four discrete areas. These are civil claims against the police and public authorities; inquests; mental…
Home Office prevented from transferring vulnerable asylum seeker away from support network
Friday 17 Oct 2025
The legal team successfully prevented the Home Office from transferring a vulnerable asylum seeker (XY) away from her established support network. XY faced being dispersed to another part of the…
Social Welfare Update: Secretary of State was correct as to the responsibility for funding accommodation at Transitional Rehabilitation Unit when determining ordinary residence under National Assistance Act 1948
Friday 30 Apr 2021
…met during the safeguarding process in February 2010 to April 2010 held by Lancashire, (b) Lancashire was therefore under a public law obligation at that time to carry out a…
Proposed return to sheltered accommodation did not breach Local Authority and CCG’s duties under s117 MHA 1983
Thursday 1 Jul 2021
…already living in a flat that met her needs and there was no suggestion the Claimant should be moved out of the flat around the time of the January 2020…
Social Welfare Update: High Court holds a patient was “ordinarily resident”, for the purposes of funding s 117 aftercare, in second local authority’s area immediately before second period of detention
Friday 30 Apr 2021
…that this is the end of such disputes, for example if the person discharged had only been in the community for a very short period of time in the second…








