DPG client David Buxton, Deaf campaigner and CEO of Action on Disability has been interviewed by BBC See Hear in connection with the Access to Work cap. Access to Work is a scheme aimed at helping deaf and disabled people in work. Awards are now...
A disability rights campaigner has issued judicial review proceedings in the High Court challenging the government’s decision to cap support for disabled people in work under the Access to Work Scheme. David Buxton, a Deaf BSL user and CEO of the charity Action on Disability,...
Inclusion London, a pan-London Disabled people’s organisation, represented by Louise Whitfield of Deighton Pierce Glynn intervened today in the Court of Appeal hearing on R(on the application of Davey) v Oxfordshire County Council. Today marks the first time the Court of Appeal will hear a case...
The legal challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for operating the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S, a large multi-national corporation, is to be heard in the High Court on 29 September 2016. The national network of law centres, represented by Deighton Pierce...
Deighton Pierce Glynn act for The Law Centres Network (LCN) in a legal challenge to the Government’s decision to award the contract for operating the national discrimination advice helpline to G4S, a large multi-national corporation. LCN argue that the government did not properly assess the shortcomings...
Daniel Smith talks to the Guardian about his experiences of how the state responds to disability hate crime. Daniel’s solicitor Sarah Ricca said, ‘The inadequate and discriminatory treatment that victims of disability hate crime receive from the authorities is well-documented. Daniel is determined to see things...