Legal challenges: Reconsiderations, overview of appeals and judicial reviews

An overview of the different types of legal challenges that can be made against negative trafficking and NRM decisions.

This training will be useful for:

• Legal professionals interested in working with survivors of trafficking or Modern Slavery and those requiring a refresher

• Support professionals working within and those working outside of the MSVCC

• Those working at or with migrant or survivor led groups. 

In this session we will provide an introduction as to how to challenge negative trafficking and NRM decisions, including:

• Negative Reasonable Grounds / Conclusive Grounds decisions

• Public Order and Bad Faith Disqualifications

• Refusals of VTS leave

• Refusals of NRM support and accommodation.

This session will be mainly focused on making reconsideration requests. We will also provide an overview of challenging decisions through judicial review and the asylum appeals process, including associated deadlines.

We will cover steps to take if survivors go missing and the impact this can have on a legal challenge.

Following this session we will share a template reconsideration request for future use.

The content for this session will cover legislation and case law from England and Wales as well as some international sources of law. It will have a strong focus on the Modern Slavery: statutory guidance for England and Wales (under s49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015) and non-statutory guidance for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The session is for 2 hours with an optional 30 minutes Q&A at the end.

Beth Mullan-Feroze

Beth is a solicitor specialising in immigration and public law, based in London. Beth joined ATLEU in 2024 as ATLEU’s Legal Training and Partnerships Manager. Beth qualified as a solicitor in 2014, following which she worked in the public law department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors before working at the strategic litigation project, Migrant Law Project. Beth then worked within the legal department at the Helen Bamber Foundation for five years, during which time she had part time roles as a supervising senior solicitor at Praxis Community Projects and as a policy officer at Anti Slavery International. Beth has extensive experience of preparing immigration applications and appeals at all levels as well as a variety of claims against public bodies and complex Judicial Review applications. Beth has provided and developed a wide range of training on all matters related to survivors of trafficking, as well as trauma informed working and the use of medical evidence in asylum and trafficking cases.

Lindsay Cundall

Lindsay is a supervising solicitor specialising in immigration and public law, based in Sheffield. Lindsay joined ATLEU in 2020 as ATLEU’s Training Lead and in 2023 she took up the role of Strategic Litigation Lawyer which she does alongside leading ATLEU’s housing and public law team. Lindsay has qualified as a solicitor in 2010 with Wilson Solicitors LLP, prior to which she had worked at Refugee and Migrant Justice, Brighton Housing Trust and the UNHCR, Ecuador. Lindsay has extensive experience of preparing immigration applications and appeals at all levels as well as a variety of claims against public bodies and complex Judicial Review applications, particularly on behalf of those who are detained in immigration removal centres or prisons (in non-criminal matters). Her notable cases include The Anti Trafficking Labour Exploitation Unit & Anor v The Secretary of State for Justice [2022] EWHC 1962 (Admin) (26 July 2022), a judicial review brought by ATLEU as the Claimant, which prompted the introduction of new guidance for UK prisons on supporting survivors.

A 20% discount will be automatically applied when booking 6 or more spaces in this session.

As part of this series, we are delivering four other in-depth training sessions. We know that these sessions are best taken together so we are offering you five courses for the price of four.