On 14 and 15 April 2021, a High Court judge, the honourable Mr Justice Linden, will consider whether the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in housing asylum-seekers at Napier Barracks in Kent. Because of social distancing, the judge and lawyers will be in Court and the...
Two survivors of trafficking who successfully challenged a Home Office policy which was found to discriminate against trafficking victims who also had applications for asylum, have been awarded damages for the breach of their Human Rights. Our clients, the Claimants in the leading case JP and...
Our client was on the 5 year route to settlement, but lost her job as a result of the pandemic. She had to apply for recourse to public funds, but the Home Office insisted that the consequence of this was that she would be moved...
Polly Glynn spoke to the BBC Radio documentary programme, File on 4, about the problems with the UK’s system of asylum support. You can listen to the programme here. DPG’s migrant support work includes our innovative PAP scheme, which you can read more about here....
On Wednesday 17 March 2021, the Divisional Court will hear a judicial review challenge brought by a 5-year-old black British child and his mother against the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s policy which bars most British children from receiving welfare benefits if their...
A deputy High Court judge today ordered that an asylum seeker and potential victim of trafficking who is housed at the Napier army barracks in Kent must be urgently re-housed in alternative adequate accommodation within 24 hours. The Claimant is an asylum seeker and potential victim...
In a judgment of 21 December 2020, the Court of Appeal laid down detailed guidance on the correct approach to medical and other expert evidence in assessing whether there are conclusive grounds to conclude that a person is a victim of trafficking (paras 121-123). In...
The Home Office has backed down on its plans to detain Osime Brown pending deportation. This is an important step in the fight for justice for Osime being waged by his mother, Joan Martin, and a growing body of supporters from anti-racist protestors, disability rights...
Judgment has now been handed down after an 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the social security safety net is unlawful. On 7 May 2020 the High Court indicated that...
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...