Our vision at JCWI is of a UK where human rights and dignity are respected, and no one is made vulnerable or destitute or denied their fundamental rights simply because they have migrated.
One of our tools in this fight is through strategic litigation – legal action that seeks to right a wrong for an individual, but also to bring wider change, such as a change in policy.
Here are some of the cases we have contributed to in the past 12 months:
1) We brought judicial review proceedings to challenge the lack of mechanism to apply for a fee waiver in human rights claims made from outside the UK. The Home Office settled the case and agreed to create a mechanism (though we are still waiting for them to do so!). We worked with Islington Law Centre in these linked cases. 
2) When the Upper Tribunal wrote new guidance at the start of the pandemic that threatened the right to an oral hearing, JCWI brought legal proceedings acting as the claimant and the guidance was declared unlaw…