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Home Office’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy found unlawful again

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29 April, 2021

Hubert Howard, photographed by Sarah Lee for the Guardian

High Court finds that Home Office’s restrictive approach to Windrush Citzenship applications is irrational

In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has found that the Home Office's treatment of Windrush Citizenship Applications has been irrational, by continuing to impose a restrictive "good character" requirement that denied members of the Windrush generation citizenship status. The "good character" requirement...

23 April, 2021

Claim against home office by migrant subjected to dehumanising treatiment

Our client has commenced a legal challenge against the Home Office, its staff and agents, in respect of the way that she was dealt with by staff at her asylum support accommodation provided to our client under the Home Office’s Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract...

23 April, 2021

People are dying because of the British government’s racist policies

We don’t want to buy into a concept created by an enthusiastic proponent of the racist hostile environment, but Stephen Lawrence day will no doubt quite rightly be of real importance to the Lawrence family, Duwayne Brooks, and those close to them. We all have a...

22 April, 2021

High Court hears judicial review regarding Napier Barracks

A judicial review hearing regarding the Home Secretary’s decision to house asylum seekers at Napier military Barracks in Kent took place at the Royal Courts of Justice on 14 and 15 April 2021. The claims were brought by six Claimants who were anonymised during the...

16 April, 2021

Napier Barracks trial starts on 14 April 2021

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...

13 April, 2021

Compensation awarded to trafficking victims left in limbo due to unlawful home office policy

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...

30 March, 2021

Major Home Office concession on NRPF policy

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...

26 March, 2021

Photo showing part of a crowd of people, who are holding placards saying 'Stop Voter Suppression'

Intervention in Supreme Court case on Voter ID

DPG clients Operation Black Vote, the Runnymede Trust and Voice4Change UK have been given permission to intervene in the Supreme Court case of Coughlan v Minister for the Cabinet Office, challenging the imposition of voter ID requirements in UK local elections (in May 2019). The...

22 March, 2021

Proposed reforms to legislation are not enough to remedy injustices suffered by Windrush generation

The Guardian has reported today that reforms will be introduced to the British Nationality Act 1981, which will give the Home Secretary and her agents discretion to waive residence requirements that have led to Windrush migrants like our client, Trevor Donald, being refused citizenship. This is...

18 March, 2021

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