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...
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...
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...
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...
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...