Fountain Solicitors: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Immigration and asylum23
Public and administrative law10
Civil liberties and human rights10
Family and children6
Media, defamation and privacy1

Courts

Supreme Court3
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)11
High Court11
Upper Tribunal6

Counsel most often instructed

Abid Mahmood7
Ramby de Mello5

Judgments by year

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20202
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Cases later courts cite most

Cases Fountain Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
14 Oct 2015	Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 59 · Supreme Court A public authority must determine an application under the lawful policy it has adopted unless there is good reason to depart from it. This public law duty…	65
7 Jun 2013	AHK & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1426 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Where national-security material relied on in refusing naturalisation is protected by public interest immunity, the common-law duty of fairness does not…	17
18 Mar 2015	The Secretary of State for the Home Department v The Special Immigration Appeals Commission & Ors [2015] EWHC 681 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court On statutory judicial review by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, closed disclosure must enable the Commission to test the rationality and legality…	5
31 Mar 2016	Jane Milambo Katsonga v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKUT 228 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber The Tribunal’s slip-rule power is confined to correcting clerical mistakes and accidental slips or omissions so as to make the original decision-maker’s…	4
18 Jun 2014	MI & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 826 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Whether ill-treatment is capable of constituting persecution is a question of law. Whether particular ill-treatment constitutes persecution is a mixed question…	3

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
26 Jun 2026	A1 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWCA Civ 807 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) In an appeal concerning revocation of refugee status, statutory presumptions that a person convicted of a particularly serious crime is a danger to the…
22 Jan 2019	Haq, R (On the Application Of) v Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council [2019] EWHC 70 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A sincere religious belief is protected by Article 9 where the proposed conduct is sufficiently linked to that belief. A court should avoid adjudicating…	2
31 Mar 2016	Jane Milambo Katsonga v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKUT 228 (IAC) · Upper Tribunal: Immigration and Asylum Chamber The Tribunal’s slip-rule power is confined to correcting clerical mistakes and accidental slips or omissions so as to make the original decision-maker’s…	4
14 Oct 2015	Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 59 · Supreme Court A public authority must determine an application under the lawful policy it has adopted unless there is good reason to depart from it. This public law duty…	65
1 May 2015	The Secretary of State for the Home Department v The Special Immigration Appeals Commission & Ors [2015] EWHC 1236 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court On a review under sections 2C or 2D of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, the Secretary of State must disclose under Rule 10B of the Special…
18 Mar 2015	The Secretary of State for the Home Department v The Special Immigration Appeals Commission & Ors [2015] EWHC 681 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court On statutory judicial review by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, closed disclosure must enable the Commission to test the rationality and legality…	5
18 Jun 2014	MI & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 826 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Whether ill-treatment is capable of constituting persecution is a question of law. Whether particular ill-treatment constitutes persecution is a mixed question…	3
16 May 2014	Reid, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 1772 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court For certification under section 96 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, a claimant cannot invalidate certification merely by identifying later…
7 Jun 2013	AHK & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1426 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Where national-security material relied on in refusing naturalisation is protected by public interest immunity, the common-law duty of fairness does not…	17
26 Jul 2012	Bhavyesh & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 2789 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A discrimination challenge to Immigration Rules requires a comparator class whose members are in materially analogous circumstances. Union citizens who have…	2
13 Jul 2012	Ali & Anor R (on the application of) v Minister for the Cabinet Office the Statistics Board [2012] EWHC 1943 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The compatibility of a statutory disclosure power with Article 8 must be assessed by examining the entire legal framework, including related legislation…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Fountain Solicitors is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Fountain Solicitors. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.