DPG partner Sue Willman will be talking at the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR)’s event Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Sexual Harassment of Female Activists in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday 22 January 2019 at 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ from 6pm. Sue will be...
On 6 November, the International Legal Assistance Consortium will be launching its Guatemala Judicial Assessment report exploring the challenges in the country including the attacks on judges and lawyers. The report examines the situation facing the judiciary and public prosecution in Guatemala after ILAC experts...
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...
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) have today launched a crowd funding campaign to raise £2000 to take the Prime Minister to court for David Cameron’s decision in 2015 to weaken the Ministerial Code. The case relates to the decision made by David Cameron in...
Following a hearing in December 2017, the Court of Appeal has declared the data retention provision of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (“DRIPA”) to be unlawful, following the landmark judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU...
The Times has recognised Daniel Carey, Associate Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn, as their “Lawyer of the Week” for his work representing Rights Watch (UK) in the Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber. The case concerned a Freedom of Information Act appeal against a refusal by...
The Home Office has agreed to pay an asylum seeker £15,500 in damages for unlawfully sharing confidential documentation regarding his persecution in his country of origin with the authorities there, in a bid to verify the documents’ authenticity. Deighton Pierce Glynn represented an asylum seeker in...
The Upper Tribunal has issued its decision in the Freedom of Information Act appeal by Rights Watch (UK) against the government’s refusal to disclose its lethal drone strike legal advice. Although the Tribunal refused to order disclosure of the advice, it made significant rulings regarding the...
The European Court of Human Rights is holding a relatively rare oral hearing in a case brought by four DPG clients - Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, English PEN and Dr Constanze Kurz – alongside other organisations challenging UK government internet surveillance programmes. On Tuesday...