New additions to the MiCLU team
We are excited to welcome two new members of the MiCLU team: Esme Madill, who joins us as a Justice First fellow trainee solicitor, and
Who is Who? and other new online resources
MiCLU are excited to announce the launch of our new information booklet, Who is Who? Who is Who? is designed for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK, to explain who the many different
MiCLU’s Kids in Need of Defense partner Microsoft wins pro bono award
Nadine Morgan and Mohammed Karim collecting the award from Hilarie Bass Congratulations to Microsoft in-house legal team for winning the LawWorks Best Contribution by an In-House Team award for their
One lawyer’s account of ‘defending our children’
Read lawyer Helena Milner-Smith's account of how she and colleagues from Covington & Burling LLP took on the immigration case of a 17-year-old girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Covington
Justice First Fellowship – opportunity to take up a training contract based with MiCLU
MiCLU is delighted that Islington Law Centre have been chosen as a host agency for the Justice First Fellowship programme. This means that we are able to offer a training contract based
Kids in Need of Defense UK submits inaugural application for separated child
We are excited to report that lawyers working with Kids in Need of Defense UK in partnership with MiCLU have submitted their first application for leave to remain to the Home Office
Join us in asking the government to give unaccompanied children access to justice again
The Children’s Society have launched a petition to call on the Government to reinstate legal aid for all unaccompanied and separated migrant children. The Government’s decision in 2012 to remove free legal help for thousands of
Children First, Migrants Second
Precarious Citizenship: Unseen, Settled and Alone – The Legal and Protection Needs of ‘Undocumented’ Children and Young People in England and Wales. Our new report is out, presenting the findings of over
New Report – Precarious Citizenship: Unseen, Settled and Alone
The Legal and Protection Needs of ‘Undocumented’ Children and Young People in England and Wales What does ‘undocumented’ mean? Who are undocumented children and young people? What are the problems they face?
Workshop: Trauma, Memory and Evidence in Assessing the Claims of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in the UK – 7 December 2016 (Glasgow)
A free afternoon workshop for lawyers and mental health and other professionals working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Scotland, organised by the Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) at Islington
