This month’s blog focuses on the move-on support provided to individuals with newly granted international protection status, which frequently leaves people who the Government has accepted require sanctuary, facing street homelessness and imminent destitution. What is Asylum Support? The Home Secretary has an obligation to provide...
Before HM Area Coroner Laurinda Bower Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Coroner’s Court 11 to 28 November 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This article contains themes of self-harm and self-inflicted death. A jury has found that there was a sustained failure by Sodexo to address the operational safety concerns at HMP...
Our client Kay Barter has given a moving interview to Channel 4’s Jackie Long. With extraordinary courage and dignity, Kay shares her daughter’s story and her belief that Georgia’s life “was taken from her”. Channel 4 has also published an article examining the wider fight to...
DPG continues to push for justice for asylum seekers subjected to unlawful detention and inhumane conditions at Manston Short-Term Holding Facility in Autumn 2022, when overcrowding, neglect, and mistreatment became rampant as a result of a Home Office decision not to move people to asylum...
In this month’s blog we reflect on the landmark Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) on states’ obligations regarding climate change, including the link between environmental protection and human rights, the importance of which is increasingly being recognised by both the international...
The Administrative court has granted permission for judicial review in our clients' eVisa policy challenge. The SSHD is accused of having an unlawful policy of only issuing proof of lawful status through eVisas, and failing to issue alternative proof of status outside of this system. Background...
This week the latest hearings in the long-running Undercover Policing Inquiry begin. Tranche 3 will investigate the role of the Special Demonstration Squad from 1993 until its closure in 2008. DPG represents a number of core participants in the Inquiry including Ken Livingstone, Duwayne Brooks OBE,...
Before Assistant Coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe East London Coroner’s Court 22 September 2025 – 2 October 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This note contains themes of domestic abuse, sexual violence and self-harm. By the time of her death, Georgia Barter had suffered around a decade of domestic...
25 September 2025 29 September 2025 Benjamin Brown: Jury finds failings by East London NHS Foundation Trust and the Metropolitan Police possibly contributed to the death of 35-year-old musician. Before HM Assistant Coroner Jonathan Stevens Inner North London Coroner’s Court 15 September – 25 September 2025 CONTENT WARNING: This press release...
The right to protest is of fundamental importance to a thriving democracy. Protests have played a crucial role in some of history’s most important social movements. From the Stonewall Riots of 1969, to the global climate strikes and the Black Lives Matter protests following the...