Two judicial reviews brought by five DPG clients challenging Home Office delays in providing accommodation to those entitled to section 4 support and the delays in providing suitable accommodation to disabled people is being heard from Monday 20 July to Thursday 23 July 2020 in...
In a rare successful challenge to a Crown Prosecution Service's ('CPS') decision, the High Court has decided that the CPS's decision not to prosecute a former diplomat and his wife who exploited our client by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay...
https://youtu.be/E_xbHwmLnJ8 DPG represented the family of Mikey Powell who was killed by West Midlands Police officers on 7 September 2003. Mikey’s Nieces have put together this video to express their feelings. Chaela had not been born when Mikey died and Kiara was just a...
At a High Court hearing on 1 July 2020 our client will challenge the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute a former diplomat who exploited her by forcing her to work excessive hours for very little pay. Our client was a domestic worker who had...
"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up” DPG are instructed...
On 31 March 2020 the Home Office announced a free one-year visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors, and their family members. This means they will not have to pay the application fee or the immigration health surcharge. The extension is...
Our client has set up a CrowdJustice page to raise funds for their case against the Government. We are requesting that the Government immediately stops the export of tear gas, rubber bullets, and other potentially lethal equipment, until there is no longer any risk that...
Prime Minister is asked to fulfil his promise that military-grade equipment will not be exported to the US if it is used for internal repression. Following the brutal and racist killing of George Floyd by a police officer and the widespread protests that immediately followed and...
We at Deighton Pierce Glynn support the struggle of the black community against racism and violence by state and security forces, in the US and here in the UK. This is our collective struggle for justice and we, black and white lawyers together, stand by all those whose voices...
Judgment has now been handed down after an 8-year-old British boy – supported by his migrant mother – won a ruling that the policy denying families like his access to the social security safety net is unlawful. On 7 May 2020 the High Court indicated that...