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Further Trafficking Survivor Awarded Compensation Having Been Left In Limbo Due To Unlawful Home Office Policy

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17 June, 2021

Osime Brown wins fight against deportation: struggle for justice continues

The Home Office has confirmed that it will not be pursuing its attempts to deport Osime Brown to Jamaica. Osime came to Britain with his family aged 4. He has not been to Jamaica since and has no family there. Osime is autistic and has...

16 June, 2021

Angela Best inquest: coroner’s conclusion criticises inadequate system for managing risk to women posed by two times killer

HM Coroner Mary Hassell has found that ‘no person or organisation had any role, responsibility or power to investigate’ whether two-times killer Theodore Johnson was in a relationship with a woman. Johnson, who had killed two previous partners, was considered to pose a high risk...

04 June, 2021

High Court finds decision to house asylum seekers at military barracks unlawful

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...

03 June, 2021

Challenge to CPS’s decision not to prosecute following death in HMP Woodhill

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...

26 May, 2021

UK Mass Surveillance of Communications violated ECHR: Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights

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...

25 May, 2021

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The inquest into the death of 29-year-old Mark Culverhouse concluded on 21 May 2021

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...

25 May, 2021

Inquest resumes to consider whether state failings contributed to killing of Angela Best by perpetrator who had killed two previous partners

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...

24 May, 2021

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Home Office discriminated against lone parent trafficked asylum seeker

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...

24 May, 2021

DPG Responds to Government’s Judicial Review Consultation

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...

05 May, 2021

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