All Articles: Public Sector Equality Duty

Three individual claimants have succeeded in a judicial review claiming that they had been unlawfully accommodated at the former RAF base in Wethersfield. The court also held that the Home Office had unlawfully breached the Public Sector Equality Duty. The case is TG & Ors v Secretary of State for...

19th March 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan

In two mammoth judgments, Fordham J has given detailed guidance about the duties owed to disabled people on immigration bail by the Home Office and local authorities. The two judgments, BLZ No. 1: R (BLZ) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 153 (Admin) and  BLZ No.2:...

5th February 2025
BY Alex Schymyck

The Home Secretary has conceded the claims of two former immigration detainees relating to a power outage at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre (IRC), a detention centre next to Heathrow airport. The Home Secretary not only paid both claimants substantial amounts in damages for unlawfully detaining them, but also declared that...

11th December 2023
BY Dominic Chambers
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