DPG are delighted to congratulate Emily Soothill on her appointment to the partnership. Emily has worked in our Bristol office since September 2017 and specialises in complex group claims and public law challenges. She has brought several important cases including challenges to the legality of using Napier...
On 30 July 2024, under pressure from litigation, the Home Office finally introduced a scheme for relocating the left-behind family members of persons evacuated from Afghanistan in August 2021. For nearly 3 years, evacuees in the UK have been waiting for an immigration scheme to...
Four asylum seekers challenging the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s use of RAF Wethersfield as asylum accommodation are set to have their cases heard at a four-day trial in the Royal Courts of Justice from 23-26 July 2024. The asylum seekers were granted permission...
The parents of Natasha Abrahart have said they are “deeply offended” by University of Bristol’s refusal to apologise for contributing to the 20-year-old’s death by discriminating against her. Dr Robert Abrahart, Natasha’s father said “It feels like yet another insult from people who really only...
The Home Office has granted citizenship to DPG client Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, a prominent Bahrain Pro-Democracy and Human Rights Activist, after he challenged the lawfulness of over 3 years of delays in deciding his application. Pre-action letters challenging the lawfulness of these lengthy delays were sent...
This judicial review claim, brought by Mr Trevor Donald and intervened by Black Equity Organisation (BEO), UNISON and Speaker of the House of Commons, concerned the Government’s decision to abandon 3 of the 30 recommendations made by Wendy Williams in her Windrush Lessons Learned Review...
12 June 2024 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have jointly applied to the Administrative Court to intervene in a legal proceedings challenging the UK government's approval of over 100 arms export licences to Israel since October 2023. The judicial review claim, brought by Palestinian NGO...
On 23 May 2024 the High Court dismissed our client’s (Carralyn Parkes) judicial review in Parkes v Dorset Council, [2024] EWHC 1253, which argued that Dorset Council has the power to enforce planning authority over the Bibby Stockholm barge. Our client is disappointed that a loophole...
Unkha Banda has been selected to participate in the hugely prestigious US Government International Visitor Leadership Program on Strategic Litigation for Social Change. The project was designed by U.S. Embassy London to support practitioners in the UK in developing a better understanding of how legal...
Robert Fenlon, 36, died a self-inflicted death whilst on remand at Woodhill prison on 5 March 2016. Now an inquest jury has concluded that the reprehensible failures by two senior prison officers involved amounted to unlawful killing by gross negligence manslaughter. This is the first...