We have a team of five specialist lawyers who concentrate on representing clients whose cases are best pursued in the High Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

They represent clients in individual matters such as challenging unlawful removals: we recently secured a decision requiring the government to arrange for the return of a client who had been unlawfully removed from the UK - see our press releases. The strategic litigation team also takes class actions on behalf of groups of clients: we are currently challenging the Home Office delay in the issuing of status papers to those who have been recognised as refugees - people who have been given protection but who are prevented from getting on with establishing their lives in the UK because the Home Office has not processed their paperwork in a timely way.

RMJs strategic litigation team also pursue cases which test or clarify the law: we have recently been given funding to petition the House of Lords about the interpretation of the dicta from Baroness Hale in AH (Sudan) [2007] UKHL 49 on the proper approach in the appellate courts to decisions of specialist tribunals (such as the AIT) and, in particular, how those dicta should be applied when reviewing the consistency of the decision of the AIT in country guidance cases.