Reuben accepts instructions in all areas of public law and human rights law (including private law claims against public authorities), and works as both sole counsel and junior counsel.
Cases
His recent work includes:
- Acting as junior counsel in a long-running challenge against the Secretary of State for the Home Department, concerning: (i) a notice imposed by the Secretary of State under the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011; and (ii) an alleged breach of the Secretary of State’s duty of candour.
- Acting for claimants in a number of housing and / or social care cases, including:
- Sole counsel in an emergency challenge under the Care Act 2014 to a decision to render a man with HIV and kidney failure street homeless.
- Sole counsel in a challenge (under the Equality Act 2010 and Part VI of the Housing Act 1996) to a long-standing failure to rehouse a disabled family, where the accommodation posed a threat to the life of one of the children.
- Junior counsel for a survivor of serious sexual assault in a challenge against a local authority in respect of long-standing breaches of the Children Act 1989 and Parts VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996.
- Regularly advising clients in respect of potential challenges to local authorities under the Housing Act 1996 and Children Act 1989.
- Acting as junior counsel on behalf of an animal rights charity in an on-going judicial review against the Home Office under the Human Rights Act 1998.
- Acting as sole counsel for successful appellants in the First-Tier Tribunal in both social security law and education law contexts.
- Providing advice in all areas of public law, including:
- Advising an environmental charity on a dispute with a local authority under the Local Government Act 1972.
- Advising a child in respect of a potential claim for damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 following a local authority’s breach of the Children Act 1989.
- Advising on multiple challenges under the Human Rights Act 1998 in the context of social security law.
During pupillage, he assisted on a wide range of public law and human rights law matters, including:
- A judicial review of a deprivation of citizenship decision in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
- A judicial review of a refusal to grant assistance under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.
- A judicial review of a housing allocation scheme, alleging discrimination under both the Equality Act 2010 and Article 14 ECHR.
- Advising on the merits and quantum of a false imprisonment and Article 8 ECHR damages claim in the immigration context.
- Advising on the merits of a challenge to the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
