Jennifer Lanigan

• TS v SSHD UI-2025-000092: Successfully represented TS in both the FTT and UTT in a deportation appeal. The case concerned issues of trafficking, a blood feud and the nature of the relationship between TS and his child with a former partner. The appeal was allowed on the basis of Article 3 and Article 8. The Respondent is currently seeking permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
• HYW v SSHD UI/2025/001356: A successful UT error of law hearing concerning the correct application of HJ (Iran) principles in the context of a Chinese political activist.
• Newman v Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police: 7-day employment trial led by Aileen McColgan KC involving allegations of discrimination and harassment in the context of gender-critical beliefs and the interplay with Article 10 freedom of speech.
• L v MoJ: The claim concerned numerous interferences over several years with the Claimant’s correspondence, including unlawful interferences with the Claimant’s legal correspondence (termed ‘rule 39’ correspondence under the Prison Rules). The Claimant secured significant damages in settlement at an unprecedented level when compared to existing case law. Jenny drafted the pleadings and provided advice throughout proceedings including in relation to settlement.
• Jallali v (1) Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police (2) SSHD EAT EA-2022-001142-AT: an appeal before the President of the EAT Lord Fairley in a claim involving alleged indirect discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 relating to the remuneration of part-time inspectors.
• KD v SSHD UI-2023-000261: Jenny appeared in the FTT and UTT and is instructed in the Respondent’s ongoing appeal to the Court of Appeal (CA-2025-000792). There were numerous complex issues engaged in this appeal, including a deportation order, certification under NIAA 2002, an asylum claim on the bases of a blood feud and imputed political opinion (alleged PKK involvement), as well as Devaseelan principles.
• ER v MoJ: a claim for damages arising from a period of 112 days’ unlawful detention. Jenny provided advice and drafting in the claim, following which a favourable settlement was secured swiftly.
• R (on the application of Lopes) v SSHD [2021] EWCA Civ 805: The case involved linked applications for a writ of habeas corpus and permission to apply for judicial review. The case required novel analysis of the conflicting operation of the Home Office deportation policy following expiry of the appellant’s minimum tariff for murder (the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme) and extradition procedures in accordance with an outstanding international arrest warrant. Jenny provided drafting and representation, appearing as sole counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal against the respondent’s silk.