No Recourse to Public Funds ... and the ‘Change of Conditions’ application process

Spotted this from Deighton Pierce Glynn who are working with the Unity Project -

The Home Office has agreed to review its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment – and pay our clients compensation following successful legal action ....

In 2014 we brought a successful challenge to the policy, which resulted in the implementation of an application process for lifting the condition if people could show that they were destitute ....

[However] the Change of Conditions application process did not work well, leaving people destitute for months whilst the Home Office demanded extensive documentation. Therefore, in partnership with the Unity Project and Lambeth Law Centre we brought many cases challenging the refusal to lift the condition ...

The High Court was due to consider the legality of the policy on 19 March 2019, but shortly before the hearing the Home Office conceded that the policy should be reviewed in compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty. They also agreed that our clients should receive compensation to reflect the suffering that the policy had caused them.

More: https://dpglaw.co.uk/another-blow-to-theresa-mays-hostile-environment/