Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Public Law Team has produced a case analysis in partnership with LexisNexis.
The case analysis includes the practical implications of the case, the background, the court’s decision and case details.
This case concerned an application for judicial review brought by three claimants (D1914, AAA and AVY) challenging the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s response to the Brook House Inquiry report. The Claimants argued that the Secretary of State had failed to adequately implement the Inquiry’s 33 recommendations following on from the scandal, identified in 2017, of mistreatment of detainees at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC).
However, Mrs Justice Lang refused the application on determining that the Secretary of State had not failed to discharge the investigative or systems duties imposed by article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, contrary to section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1988, in not fully implementing all the recommendations of an Inquiry which investigated mistreatment at an IRC.
Garden Court’s Stephanie Harrison KC and Emma Fitzsimons (instructed by Duncan Lewis Solicitors) were on the legal team acting for claimants.
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Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin is ranked in Chambers UK for Social Housing, Community Care, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights and is also identified as a leading junior in the Legal 500 for Social Housing, Court of Protection and Community Care, and Administrative Law and Human Rights. Tim is highly regarded for his public and administrative law practice. Tim’s wide-ranging expertise involves complex challenges drawing on experience of overlapping areas, including disability and discrimination, housing, community care and social welfare, Court of Protection and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), civil liberties, human rights and inquests, planning, commercial judicial review and judicial review of regulatory bodies and Ombudsman cases. He is Co-Chair of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association (HLPA), and a member of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) advisory panel.
Read the full judgment (BAILII): R (D1914 & Anor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 1853 (Admin)
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