The Home Office have backed down and agreed to the appointment of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) to undertake a bespoke and independent Article 3 ECHR-compliant investigation into abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) exposed by a BBC Panorama documentary...
Following our clients’ Supreme Court win in June this year, the Government has announced they will change the law and extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples. Earlier this year, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan won their Supreme Court case to establish that the lack of civil...
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)...
On 26 July, a challenge against the former Prime Minister’s changes to the Ministerial Code which removed an overarching ministerial duty to comply with international law and treaties will be heard at the Court of Appeal, marking the first time the contents of the code...
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...
At 9pm on 27 June 2018 BBC2 will screen an hour-long documentary on the battle by campaigners and organisations for the NHS to fund PrEP. The case brought by National AIDS Trust with our help will be featured, along with interviews with our lawyers. On 2...
DPG is instructed by the Good Law Project in this claim. The final hearing of the judicial review claim against the Electoral Commission is being heard by the Divisional Court today. The claim started off challenging the Electoral Commission’s decision not to investigate whether Vote Leave...
Hospital Trust suspends car park charges for blue badge holders following claim for judicial review. Kingston Hospital Trust has conceded a claim for judicial review brought by a severely disabled man, AS, challenging the introduction of hospital car parking charges for blue badge holders. AS suffers...
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...