Government Legal Department

Government Legal Department

Bona Vacantia Division

Serve the Treasury Solicitor with legal proceedings

😯😑😏 New Legal Proceedings in the UK which are required to be served on the Treasury Solicitor can be served as follows:

By email at: [email protected] for all new legal proceedings issued in the UK except for new immigration proceedings. GLD would be grateful if, where possible, all new proceedings were served electronically and hardcopy documents were not sent to our postal address.

New immigration proceedings and service of costs claims on the Home Office (SSHD) in immigration proceedings i.e.:

• immigration High Court judicial reviews
• immigration habeas corpus applications
• immigration family court proceedings
• appeals to the Court of Appeal challenging Immigration Upper Tribunal Appeal decisions

Should be served at: [email protected]

The reference to service of cost claims on the Home Office above is to formally served claims for costs (Notice of Commencement and Bill) against the Home Office (SSHD) pursuant to costs orders made in the above listed types of proceedings and Immigration Upper Tribunal judicial review proceedings. This does not include informal claims or negotiation of costs which should be directed to the GLD case officer. Where the GLD case officer is known to the party serving the costs proceedings the GLD case officer should also be copied in to the email.

Immigration Judicial Reviews issued in the Immigration Upper Tribunal should be served on the Home Office:

New claims which would normally only be posted or delivered by hand to the Home Office at 6 New Square, Bedfont Lakes, TW14 8HA can now be sent by email to [email protected]. Where other instructions regarding service have been provided on decision notices or an immigration factual summary these should continue to be followed. Formal costs claims in such proceedings should be served on GLD as stated above.

The email addresses above are for the service of new proceedings only: any other correspondence addressed to it will be deleted unread. For all proceedings (including in the Supreme Court) once a GLD case officer has been allocated the case all subsequent service, save for formal costs claims in Immigration proceedings (see above), should be effected on their, or any nominated successor's, GLD email address).

Where you have served by email please do not send hard copy duplicates of any documents.

Contact Government Legal Department out of hours

😯😑😏 For representations relating to imminent (immigration) removal cases, please refer to the Immigration Factual Summary provided with the Notice of Removal which provides the contact details to be used during office hours and out of office hours.

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