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...
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...
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...
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...
Permission to apply for judicial review has been granted to our client to challenge the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute her trafficker who exploited her by making her work excessive hours for very little pay. Our client was recognised as a victim of...
Our client, Trevor Donald, is a Windrush migrant who arrived in the UK lawfully in 1967 and lived in the UK continuously from his arrival until 2010. On 1 January 1973, the Immigration Act 1971 came into force. The effect of the Act was that...
Deighton Pierce Glynn have responded to the government’s review of the Human Rights Act . This is an important piece of legislation that has helped many thousands of people to get justice. It is important to note that the government is not proposing abolishing the...