On 27 November 2019, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal that the detention of asylum seekers between 1 January 2014 and 15 March 2017 pending removal to another EU state under the Dublin III Regulation was unlawful. This is...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (‘IICSA’) has issued its report about the use of civil orders, disclosure and barring and extra territorial prosecutions of child sex offenders. The IICSA report has issued recommendations to the Government which include to ‘coordinate the development of a...
Our client successfully challenged her refusal of a student loan by way of judicial review. After being granted humanitarian protection (a form of leave to remain in the UK) in recognition that returning to her country of origin would breach her human rights, our client was...
Last year two babies were born prematurely, and had to spend the first few months of their lives in intensive care. They were left with significant ongoing health problems for which they require regular treatment. Almost a year later their parents, who have leave to remain...
On 10-12 December 2019 the High Court is hearing a judicial review challenging substantial and systematic delays by the Home office in deciding asylum applications made by unaccompanied children. Statistics show that applications by unaccompanied children have routinely taken well in excess of a year to...
The High Court has today decided that the Home Office’s approach to protecting victims of trafficking is unlawful. The test case was brought by two victims of trafficking, who challenged the Home Office’s policy of refusing to grant them leave to remain in the UK until...
In a judgment handed down today the High Court has ruled that Kingston Council is liable to local authority tenants for water overcharges dating back to 1 April 2002. The impact of today’s result could be felt in millions of pounds of refunds to council tenants...
Following court action, the Metropolitan Police has agreed to delete information relating to a referral of a primary school age child under the government’s PREVENT programme. The other referring authorities also agreed to correct and delete the relevant records. DPG’s client was concerned that the records...
On Friday 15th November, the High Court ruled as unlawful the Home Office policy relating to victims of trafficking seeking a reconsideration of a negative decision, which restricted those requests only via a First Responder or Support Provider. Now the Home Office has agreed that...
We are delighted that The Times has recognised DPG’s work to challenge state bodies by listing us in the top 200 Best Law Firms for 2020. There are couple of points we would like to clarify. As well as high profile cases, we also act for...