Please take a moment to help us shape the way that immigration legal aid cases for separated and unaccompanied children are funded once reinstated within the scope of legal aid. We understand that

Applications for ECF must be made with the CIV ECF1 FORM and should be submitted electronically to contactecc@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk. As set out above, when making an application for an unaccompanied or separated child to

As entitlement to legal aid is governed by primary legislation in the form of LASPO, a Statutory Instrument is required to be laid before parliament via the affirmative resolution procedure before LASPO

In the amended grounds of claim the basis of challenge was broadly that: Unaccompanied and separated children are extremely vulnerable, and their vulnerabilities are exacerbated by insecure immigration status The potential immigration

The Children’s Society was represented by solicitors at Islington Law Centre and MiCLU (led by Roopa Tanna), and Counsel Paul Bowen QC and Oliver Jones (Brick Court Chambers), Michelle Knorr and Zoe Harper (Doughty