Ben Goldberg

Solicitor

Ben is the Head of the Public Law team, having qualified as a solicitor in November 2022.

Ben has extensive experience representing individuals in complex public law challenges, often brought on behalf of vulnerable clients, concerning Home Office decisions on detention, accommodation, and trafficking. Ben has also successfully challenged social services and NHS failures to provide adequate support and accommodation under the Care Act and Mental Health Act.

Ben is well-equipped to take instructions on an urgent basis and has a strong track record of working closely with charities supporting vulnerable individuals, as well as representing organisations.

Ben’s notable cases include:

  • Representing a charity housing provider and multiple residents in a successful challenge against a council’s decision to cease providing specialised supported accommodation for vulnerable individuals under the Care Act and Mental Health Act.

  • BLZ v SSHD [2025] EWHC 153: A successful policy challenge establishing Home Office failures to operate a lawful policy for identifying the needs of vulnerable individuals held in immigration detention prior to release, ensuring adequate release planning.

  • BLZ v Leeds [2025] EWHC 154: The first case examining the interaction between duties under the Care Act and Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016. It was held that social services departments have a duty to accommodate those with Care Act needs where those needs are accommodation-related, as opposed to the Home Office under Schedule 10.

  • VLT v SSHD [2025] EWCA Civ 188: A Court of Appeal case considering the lawfulness of Home Office guidance excluding victims of trafficking subject to a deportation order from grants of leave. This was the first Court of Appeal case to examine the Home Office’s new trafficking powers under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

Ben graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Politics, Psychology, and Sociology before completing his GDL at Oxford Brookes University in 2019. Ben previously worked in various capacities in the House of Commons assisting MPs and their staff, and also handled employment-related casework as a union representative.