In her first official engagement as Law Society Human Rights Committee Chair, DPG director Sue Willman welcomed Maricela Vasquez, a Mexican lawyer from Ciudad Juárez, the militarised Mexican border town known for having the fifth highest murder rate in the world, and in particular for...
R on the application of ASK & MDA v Secretary of State for the Home Department On 16 July 2019 the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment which raised important issues concerning the powers of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to...
The Court of Appeal today decided that the decision by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (formerly BiZ) to authorise arms exports to Saudi Arabia for potential use in Yemen was unlawful because the government had not taken into account Saudi Arabia’s past record...
09/04/19 - The Court of Appeal will today begin hearing a landmark appeal brought by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) against the Secretary of State for International Trade challenging the government’s ongoing failure to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the...
DPG partner Sue Willman will be talking at the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR)’s event Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Sexual Harassment of Female Activists in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday 22 January 2019 at 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ from 6pm. Sue will be...
On 6 November, the International Legal Assistance Consortium will be launching its Guatemala Judicial Assessment report exploring the challenges in the country including the attacks on judges and lawyers. The report examines the situation facing the judiciary and public prosecution in Guatemala after ILAC experts...
The Campaign The #TransportJustice campaign was launched this week by a group of Paralympians and disability activists, including Anne Wafula Strike, Helene Raynsford and Inclusion London. #TransportJustice aims to enable other disabled people who face misery on transport every day to bring strategic litigation andhold corporations...
On 26 July, a challenge against the former Prime Minister’s changes to the Ministerial Code which removed an overarching ministerial duty to comply with international law and treaties will be heard at the Court of Appeal, marking the first time the contents of the code...
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) have today launched a crowd funding campaign to raise £2000 to take the Prime Minister to court for David Cameron’s decision in 2015 to weaken the Ministerial Code. The case relates to the decision made by David Cameron in...
The Oil Justice Project is holding a free event at SOAS on 13 November 2017 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Big oil companies are devastating communities across the world. Their operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. In...