Sheffield woman Irene, has won in her challenge on the lawfulness of the City Council’s decision to adopt a policy of licensing unlimited strip clubs. She argued that they had failed to discharge their public sector equality duty and properly consider the results of their...
Our clients, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have won their Supreme Court case to establish that the lack of civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples is unlawful and a breach of their human rights. In a judgment handed down today (27 June 2018), the Supreme Court unanimously...
In a judgment handed down by the Supreme Court it was found that Northern Ireland’s current laws prohibiting abortion are incompatible with Human Rights Act in so far as they fail to provide an exception for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape and...
Our clients, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, are calling for all couples to have access to civil partnerships in a case being heard in the Supreme Court. Since 2013, same-sex couples have been able to choose between marriage or civil partnership, but the Government has resisted...
Our client, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been granted permission and costs protection, in her judicial review challenge of her local Council’s policy on how strip clubs should be licensed. After a successful judicial review of Sheffield City Council by our client last year, in...
DSD and NBV brought claims against the Metropolitan police for a litany of failings after they reported being sexually assaulted by the serial taxi rapist, John Worboys. Their claim succeeded in the High Court but the police appealed. In the Supreme Court, the Home Secretary...
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Kiedan have been granted permission to take their legal challenge to the Supreme Court; the hearing is likely to take place early next year. The couple at the heart of the effort to open civil partnerships to different-sex couples have been granted...
The Supreme Court has heard an appeal over a case allowing survivors of crimes such as sexual assault, to sue the police if they do not carry out an effective investigation. Read more about the case here....
Next Monday and Tuesday 13 and 14 March, women’s groups will intervene in a hearing in the Supreme Court, which will decide whether the police owe an actionable legal duty to investigative the crimes of ‘black cab rapist’, John Worboys. The appeal arises from an historic...
Following a split decision in the Court of Appeal, our clients intend to continue their campaign and legal fight to open up civil partnerships to mixed-sex couples. On 21 February 2017, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and...