Strategic Litigation Upholds Fairness and Accountability in Asylum Accommodation Policy

We're proud to have supported an important public interest case brought by Freedom from Torture by providing an adverse costs indemnity, helping to remove a key financial barrier to bringing their claim.

The High Court has ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it removed long-standing accommodation policy protections without adequately consulting specialist organisations or properly assessing the impact on survivors of torture, trafficking and other serious violence.

At a time when immigration legislation, policy and practice are in a constant state of change, we remain committed to supporting strategic legal challenges that help ensure the UK's immigration and asylum system is fair, lawful and accountable. Sustained scrutiny through the courts is essential to protecting the rights of vulnerable people and ensuring public bodies act within the law.

This case demonstrates how strategic litigation can drive systemic change by holding decision-makers to account. It also illustrates the value of adverse costs support in enabling cases with the potential for wide-reaching public benefit to proceed. We are proud to have played a part in making this litigation possible.

You can read the judgment here: https://lnkd.in/eMDJdrW5