The Court found today that the retention of data by the Metropolitan Police Service on a 16-year-old child (known as II) from the age of 11 was unlawful and a disproportionate interference with his right to private life; namely, that it was a breach of...
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...
DPG has successfully represented a victim of serious crime whose personal information was shared by a public inquiry with third parties in a serious personal data breach. The effect of the public inquiry’s data breach prevented DPG’s client from seeking accountability for the serious crimes of...
A legal opinion published today by Deighton Pierce Glynn’s client, the Good Law Project, raises serious concerns regarding privacy safeguards on a ‘Back Brexit’ webpage operated by the Conservative Party. Deighton Pierce Glynn, instructed by the Good Law Project (“GLP”), has obtained an opinion from a...
The UK government’s bulk surveillance practices come under scrutiny on Wednesday 10 July 2019 before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The landmark hearing – almost six years to the day since Edward Snowden first disclosed details of UK and US...
In a landmark judgment concerning state surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights has today found that the UK's regime for the bulk surveillance of our telephone use, electronic communications and web activity violates the public's right to privacy. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
DPG’s client Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) has launched a CrowdJustice drive to challenge the decision of the organiser and main sponsors of the Royal Windsor Horse Show to celebrate the King of Bahrain at the event, in in light of the country’s...
Duwayne Brooks OBE today welcomed the release , finally, of the name used by the undercover police officer, N81, who spied on him, the Lawrence's and justice campaigns. It is David Hagan. Duwayne Brooks OBE said: “At last the speculation is over and I can try...
We are instructed by the Good Law Project Limited in a challenge to the decisions made by the Electoral Commission around the EU Referendum. The challenge related to the question of whether Vote Leave broke the statutory spending limits. Following the issue of proceedings, the Electoral...
DPG client Duwayne Brooks OBE joined 60 others yesterday who have been spied upon in protest at the lack of progress in this Inquiry and to campaign for the appoint of a panel of persons with relevant experience to run the Inquiry. The Inquiry has...