News & Views
Children's Rights, Administrative and Public Law | Friday 7 July 2023
Amanda Weston KC successfully secures order setting aside findings against vulnerable teenager
Amanda Weston KC, of the Garden Court Chambers Children’s Rights & Public Law Team, alongside Garden Court Pupil Barrister Josephine Fathers, represented T. They were instructed by Oliver Fisher Solicitors.
Education Law, Children's Rights | Tuesday 14 February 2023
Changes to legal aid rules in SEND appeals following legal challenge
Amanda Weston KC, Oliver Persey, and Isaac Ricca-Richardson of Garden Court Chambers represented the child, instructed by Emma Vincent Miller of Public Law Project.
Administrative and Public Law, Community Care Law, Children's Rights | Friday 20 January 2023
Human Rights Assessments: Local Authority concedes Children Act 1989 duties take precedence over residual & discretionary Immigration Act 1999 powers
The claimant, HTT, was represented by Amanda Weston KC and Maria Moodie of Garden Court Chambers. Counsel instructed by Verity Cannell of Bindmans LLP.
Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation | Tuesday 14 March 2023
Permission to appeal on additional grounds granted in challenge to Home Secretary decision to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda
Sonali Naik KC, Amanda Weston KC, Mark Symes and Isaac Ricca-Richardson of Garden Court Chambers represented AS (Iran) instructed by Paul Turner and Iain Palmer of Barnes Harrild and Dyer Solicitors.
Family Law, Domestic Abuse, Divorce and Family Finances | Friday 11 March 2022
'Emergency Remedies in the Family Courts' loose-leaf available now
Co-authored by members of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team, Amanda Weston QC, Lorna Cservenka, Mai-Ling Savage and Anne Osborne.
Administrative and Public Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration Law | Wednesday 18 January 2023
Rwanda judgment: Permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal granted
Sonali Naik KC, Amanda Weston KC, Mark Symes, Eva Doerr, Isaac Ricca-Richardson, Alex Grigg, David Sellwood, Raza Halim and Ali Bandegani of Garden Court Chambers instructed for the claimants.
Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration: Personal and Business | Monday 19 December 2022
Rwanda judgment: Home Secretary failed to properly consider if asylum seekers should not be relocated to Rwanda
Garden Court Chambers (with others) represented a number of claimants.
Administrative and Public Law, Court of Protection | Thursday 13 January 2022
Suspension of DLA after 28 days in hospital did not violate Article 14 ECHR, in case of an adult patient with severe learning disabilities
The Appellant was represented by Amanda Weston QC, Desmond Rutledge and Ollie Persey of Garden Court Chambers instructed by Merseyside Law Centre (Samantha Maher, Trainee Solicitor).
