In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has found that Napier Barracks provided inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers, that the Defendant’s process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks was flawed and unlawful, and that residents of Napier Barracks were unlawfully...
On 5 March 2016 Robert Fenlon took his own life whilst detained at Woodhill prison. On 5 April 2019 the Crown Prosecution service decided not to bring charges against a number of suspects, including the Ministry of Justice & National Offender Management Service. This decision...
The UK government’s programmes of mass surveillance of electronic communications have been found to have been unlawful in a landmark ruling today by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Over eight years since Edward Snowden first disclosed details of UK and...
Jury decides that the unlawful detention of Mark Culverhouse in Segregation contributed to his death at HMP Woodhill. Before HM Senior Coroner for Milton Keynes Tom Osborne 4 to 21 May 2021 The inquest into the death of 29 year old Mark Culverhouse concluded on Friday 21 May...
St Pancras Coroners Court has begun to hear evidence from professionals and officials involved in the management of a man who was twice released to kill again. Angela Best was killed by Theodore Johnson on 15 December 2016. She was Johnson’s third victim. He killed...
The High Court has ruled today that the Home Office unjustifiably discriminated DPG client, EH, by refusing to pay her dependents’ trafficking support payments just because she was an asylum seeker. The current system of support for trafficked people provides for payments for dependant children. However...
Deighton Pierce Glynn have responded to the government’s consultation on reforms to judicial review. The government’s proposed reforms would open the door to legislation removing the power of the courts to review the lawfulness of government action. This power – of judicial review – has enabled...
Mark, 29, was found unresponsive under a sheet on the floor of his cell in the segregation unit of HMP Woodhill at about 14.49 on 23 April 2019. A ligature made from torn sheeting was tied between his neck and ankle. He was resuscitated and...
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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...