Samuel Solomon -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department / Senayait Degen Agahze -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department

Administrative CourtKing's Bench DivisionOrder

Claim Number: AC-2025-LON-004377

King’s Bench Division
Administrative Court

17 December 2025

Before:

The Hon Mr Justice Chamberlain

Between:

The King on the application of
Samuel Solomon

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Claim Number: AC-2025-LON-004115

Between:

The King on the application of
Senayait Degen Agahze

-v-

Claim No. AC-2025-LON-004115

Order

UPON these claims for judicial review challenging (among other decisions) the decision of the Defendant to terminate (save in respect of four identified categories) the pilot project giving newly recognised refugees 56 days’ notice of the termination of their asylum accommodation;

UPON the application dated 5 December 2025 by the Claimant in AC-2025-LON-004377 for general interim relief (“the general interim relief application”);

AND UPON the Court’s order dated 9 December 2025 granting interim relief in respect of the Claimant in AC-2025-LON-004377 and giving directions for a hearing of the general interim relief application (“the 9 December 2025 order”);

AND UPON the Defendant agreeing to issue no later than 1pm on 16 December 2025 an instruction to caseworkers to grant requests to extend support, up to a maximum of 56 days from the grant of leave to remain, where a person satisfies the caseworker that they are facing the imminent prospect of street homelessness if they are evicted, to continue until 16 January 2026 or the date of the hearing at paragraph 2 below, whichever is later;

IT IS ORDERED as follows:

  1. R (Agahze) v SSHD (AC-2025-LON-004115) and R (Solomon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2025-LON-004377) are linked and are to be heard together.
  2. The hearing listed for Thursday 18 December 2025 in AC-2025-LON-004377 is vacated.
  3. There is to be a hearing on 16 January 2026 to determine:
    (a) the application for permission to apply for judicial review in both cases; and
    (b) the general interim relief application.
  4. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the 9 December 2025 order are varied in accordance with the directions in this Order.
  5. The Claimant in AC-2025-LON-004115 has:
    (a) permission to file the amended Statement of Facts and Grounds dated 8 December 2025 (as served on the Secretary of State on 8 December 2025), notwithstanding that it exceeds 40 pages; and
    (b) permission to rely upon the generic evidence adduced in R (Solomon) v SSHD (AC-2025- LON-004377) in so far as not already filed in her own claim and the updating witness statement she served on the Defendant on 9 December 2025.
  6. The Defendant must file and serve Acknowledgements of Service and Summary Grounds of Defence (avoiding unnecessary duplication):
    (a) in R (Solomon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (AC-2025-LON-004377) by 4pm on 17 December 2025; and
    (b) in R (Agahze) v SSHD (AC-2025-LON-004115) by 4pm on 22 December 2025.
  7. The Defendant’s submissions in respect of the Claimants’ general interim relief application are to be included in the Summary Grounds of Defence in Solomon (AC-2025-LON-004377).
  8. The Defendant must file and serve any evidence upon which it proposes to rely at the hearing of the general interim relief application and any further disclosure required to comply with her duty of candour by 4pm on 22 December 2025.
  9. The Claimants must file and serve an electronic copy of the Permission and General Interim Relief Hearing Bundle by 4pm on 12 January 2026.
  10. The Claimants must file a joint skeleton argument, limited to 25 pages, by 4pm on 13 January 2026.
  11. The Defendant must file and serve a skeleton argument in response, limited to 25 pages, by 4pm on 14 January 2026.
  12. The Claimants must file an agreed bundle of authorities by 4pm on 15 January 2026.
  13. The parties have liberty to apply to vary or discharge these directions on written notice to the other parties. Any such application is to be referred to the Judge in Charge of the Administrative Court.
  14. Costs reserved.