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|  R(S) and R(B) v City of Birmingham Independent Appeal Panel (2006) | |
| Helen Mountfield was counsel for the claimants in this case, which decided that reasons must be given by an Independent Appeal Panel if it upheld drug-related exclusions from school in application of local, in preference to national, policy. |
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| Secretary of State for Defence v Elias (2006) | |
| Concerned a compensation scheme to repay the “debt of honour” owed to civilians who were interned in the Far East by Japan during the Second World War |
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| Wilkinson v Kitzinger & Ors (2006) | |
| Karon Monaghan and Helen Mountfield acted in this challenge to non-recognition of a same-sex Canadian marriage. |
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| GNER v Office of Rail Regulation (2006) | |
| Matrix barristers Rabinder Singh QC, Rhodri Thompson QC, Jessica Simor and Helen Mountfield acted in an EC challenge to railway charging regime |
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| Hepple, Stec & Ors (2005) | |
| This case the Grand Chamber of the Court of Human Rights concerned sex discrimination and social security. Helen Mountfield appeared for the petitioners. |
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| R (Ultraframe) v Central Arbitration Committee (2005) | |
| This case concerned the jurisdiction of the Central Arbitration Committee. Helen Mountfield appeared for the Respondent. |
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| Bordesley Green (Birmingham) election petition (2005) | |
| Helen Mountfield acted for the successful petitioners in the Bordesley Green (Birmingham) election petition. |
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| R (People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2002) | |
| The Court considered three separate claims that were challenging the proscription of organisations as "terrorist" under the Terrorism Act 2000. Ben Emmerson QC appeared for the Claimants in the first claim, Rabinder Singh QC and Dan Squires for the Claimants in the second claim and Helen Mountfield appeared for the Claimants in the third claim. |
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| Knight v Nicholls (2003) | |
| Helen Mountfield appeared in this case, in which the applicant sought a determination that the election in Belle Vale & Halsbury was void due to undelivered postal ballot papers. |
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| R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2005) | |
| Helen Mountfield and former Matrix member, Murray Hunt, appeared for the Secretary of State in this case about whether the exclusion of pensioners living in other jurisdictions from the UK's annual uprating of state pensions was in breach of the ECHR.
Helen Mountfield appeared in House of Lords with Nicholas Blake QC and Aileen McColgan. |
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| Matthews v Ministry of Defence (2002) | |
| The case concerned a tort claim for asbestosis injury inflicted during service with the armed forces. The Court considered the compatibility of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 with article 6 ECHR. Helen Mountfield appeared for the Ministry of Defence. |
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| Hatton v United Kingdom (2003) | |
| The Grand Chamber considered whether the Applicants had been denied the right to an effective remedy when the court had failed to consider if the increase in night flights was in breach of the right to family life for people living close to Heathrow Airport. |
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| R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Kingdom of Belgium; R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Amnesty International (2000) | |
| The case concerned the Pinochet litigation. It was held that in order to attain a fair procedure regarding the extradition, medical reports on Senator Pinochet should be disclosed to requesting states. Helen Mountfield appeared for the Kingdom of Belgium. |
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