# Litigation Caseworker

**Company**: Home Office
**Location**: London Borough of Croydon, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Salary**: GBP 34,415 - 38,991 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The Home Office is seeking a Litigation Caseworker to join the Litigation and Strategic Challenge command (LSC) within the Asylum Group.

As a Litigation Caseworker, you will predominantly work on pre-action protocol work and managing judicial review challenges.

Key responsibilities include:

- Assessing challenges set out in pre-action protocol correspondence or judicial review claims against UK immigration legislation, guidance and policy to inform decision making.

- Responding to pre-action protocol correspondence and referring to operational areas for action to remedy any original errors in the decision being challenged.

- Escalating policy or procedural issues arising from pre-action protocol correspondence, judicial review claims and private law damages claims.

- Liaising with and instructing government lawyers to achieve an agreed course of action in managing litigation.

- Supporting government lawyers and counsel on defending cases at the oral or substantive hearing stages.

- Making decisions to settle litigation and working with stakeholders to secure financial authority where it is appropriate to do so.

- Maintaining accurate records of activities/work completed across a range of IT systems.

The role requires a minimum of a 2:2 degree in law or direct experience in managing a caseload of litigation, including experience of drafting legal documents.

The salary for this role is GBP 34,415 - 38,991 per year.

Benefits include:

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

- In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.

- 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.

- Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.

## Skills

### Required
- immigration law
- litigation management
- legal drafting
- analytical skills
- communication skills

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