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.