Simon Cox practices in public law, particularly immigration and social welfare. He has extensive experience of judicial review and statutory appeals at all levels. He has acted in 'test cases' brought by bodies including the Refugee Legal Centre, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Child Poverty Action Group, Disability Law Service, Tamil Information Centre and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. He is listed as a 'leading junior' in immigration in the current editions of both 'Chambers & Partners' and the 'Legal 500'.
Immigration
He regularly appears for migrants at all levels, from the Court of Appeal to immigration adjudicators. His practice covers all areas of immigration law, including asylum, European, marriage and student cases. His business practice includes advising and acting for clients in the UK and abroad in employment, residence and nationality applications and disputes.
His immigration cases in the higher courts include Kariharan [2003] QB 933, CA (right of appeal on human rights grounds from every immigration decision); A v SSHD [2002] All ER (D) 246 (Jul) (EC-Turkey Agreement applies to self-employed Turkish nationals who have overstayed leave to remain); R(Tamil Information Centre) v SSHD [2002] All ER (D) 257 (Oct) (unlawfully broad discrimination authorisation); Jeyeanthan, CA [2000] 1 WLR 354 [1999] 3 All ER 231; [1999] INLR 241 (validity of appeal).
Social Welfare
His social welfare practice includes judicial review as well as statutory appeals before tribunals and commissioners. Much of his work concerns migrants' rights to assistance and claimant's rights under European law and he has appeared in several such cases in the House of Lords and Court of Appeal. He has acted in many judicial reviews about asylum support decisions of NASS and local authorities. He has appeared in many human rights cases before the courts and social security commissioners.
His social welfare cases include the House of Lords cases of M [2001] 1 WLR 1453; [2001] 4 All ER 41, (benefits for disabled immigrant child); ex p Mehanne [2001] 1 WLR 539; [2001] 2 All ER 690 (rent restriction for housing benefit. His Court of Appeal cases include Q and others, CA [2004] QB 36; [2003] 2 All ER 905 (denial of support to 'late' asylum claimants and Article 3 ECHR); Shah [2002] All ER (D) 419 (Feb) (income support for sponsored immigrant); Tucker [2001] All ER (D) 109 (Nov) (housing benefit for tenant caring for landlord's child); Kadhim [2001] QB 955 (scope of resident landlord exception; assumption of law made by Court of Appeal not binding); Megarry, Times, 11.11.99 (disability benefit for autistic child). He acted for the claimants in the reported High Court cases of Salih & Rahmani [2003] All ER (D) 129 (Oct) (hard cases support for failed asylum seekers); Paulo [2001] Imm AR 645 (duty to ensure continuity of asylum support) and Altun [2001] Imm AR 570 (asylum support dispersal). His reported cases before the social security commissioners include R(IS) 3/02; R(IB) 2/99; R(CS) 14/98 and R(IS) 9/98.
Other areas
His immigration and social welfare work extends to related areas such as children, housing, mental health, crime and negligence.
He has also acted in other public law areas including animal rights, child support (he co-authored the CPAG Child Support Handbook for several years), the local government ombudsman and statutory appeals.
He often addresses practitioners on immigration and social security and has done so for the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association, Law Society, Child Poverty Action Group, Public Law Project, Terrence Higgins Trust and individual firms.
From 1993 to 1995 he was full-time social security and immigration caseworker at the Bar's Free Representation Unit. He is a co-founder of the Housing and Immigration Group, which brings together practitioners in those fields.
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Year of Call
1992
Education
LLB
Email Address
s.cox@doughtystreet.co.uk
Specialist Teams
Simon Cox is a member of the following specialist law teams:
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