Court proceedings have now been issued by our clients The Good Law Project and 3 cross-party MPs – Debbie Abrahams, Caroline Lucas and Layla Moran – challenging the government’s routine failure to publish details of contracts awarded in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic response. The Claimants...
Deighton Pierce Glynn joined other claimant judicial review firms (Leigh Day, Bindmans LLP, Bhatt Murphy and Irwin Mitchell) in writing to the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland, about the imbalanced terms of reference and conduct of the Government’s recently announced review of Administrative Law. In our...
At a High Court hearing on 1 July 2020 our client will challenge the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute a former diplomat who exploited her by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay. Our client was a domestic worker who had...
"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up” DPG are instructed...
We at Deighton Pierce Glynn support the struggle of the black community against racism and violence by state and security forces, in the US and here in the UK. This is our collective struggle for justice and we, black and white lawyers together, stand by all those whose voices...
In a case taken by DPG solicitors, the High Court has ordered the Home Office to disclose sensitive commercial data concerning whether its private contractors have met their contractual targets for housing destitute failed asylum seekers. The disclosure application was part of a wider systemic challenge...
An 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – has today won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the welfare safety net is unlawful. The judges in the case heard that the boy, whose identity is protected by an...
On Wednesday 6 May, an 8-year-old British boy – supported by his mother - will take the UK Home Office to court over its policy of denying families like his access to the welfare safety net. The ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy, as it is...
Next week the High Court will decide whether to suspend the Home Office’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy so that people affected by it have a social security safety net if they have to stop working. As previously reported, the High Court will finally consider...
Inquiry Chair, Ms Kate Eves officially launches the start of the Inquiry with her Opening Statement and Call for Evidence. The official launch comes following the Government converting the Prison and Probation Ombudsman investigation of Brook House into a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005...